The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,550 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments, please contact us by email, telephone or visit the Gateway at http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

GEOSET
The Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering and Technology (GEOSET) searchable internet gateway is a freely accessible selection of SET and related educational materials. Most of the videos take the form of ‘concept modules’ – rather than whole lectures or courses – focused on specific topics, in the form of split-screen presentations, in which the video of the presenter is in one window and the educational material synchronised and presented in a second window. GEOSET also links to other major sources of educational material such as at the Vega archive site and the Royal Society. Users can filter by age suitability, type of video, and subject.

Human Systems Explorer: Visualizing Medical Concepts
The full version of this site is on a password-protected area of the Harvard Medical School web site. However, this free resource provides an interesting history of the site’s creation, in the form of video documentaries, as well as a representative selection of content, consisting of interactive modules, quizzes real-time simulations and animations designed to clarify difficult concepts in pathophysiology. The textual essays which accompany the modules explains how different approaches are necessary for the visualisation of different concepts, from mathematical equations, to the use of real-time simulations and the usefulness of visual analogies.

[in]Transition
This new, open access online periodical – a collaboration between MediaCommons and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ official publication, Cinema Journal – is the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies. The purpose of the journal is to explore how new digital technologies enable film and media scholars to write about their subject using the very materials of their objects of study: moving images and sounds. The journal not only presents videographic work: it also attempts to explain and justify it use, in terms of both its creativity and its status as scholarship. Currently available on the site are videographic essays on Ingmar Bergman, Neorealism and Orson Welles’ F For Fake.

Quirks and Quarks
This awarding-winning science podcast is produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and presents the latest discoveries in the physical and natural sciences. The programme also examines the political, social, environmental and ethical implications of new developments in science and technology. Listeners can play or download each podcast in its entirety, or segment by segment, and there are links to related articles, news stories and interviews. Each episode is about an hour long, and generally features around five separate items.

Reactions: Everyday Chemistry
Formerly known as Bytesize Science, this series, created by the American Chemical Society, presents free, weekly video podcasts about ‘the chemistry all around us’. Also available on YouTube.