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- https://www.ruralmedia.co.uk/
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- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
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- Agriculture, Archaeology, Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Geography, Geology, Nature, Social Studies, Social Welfare
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- Film/Video
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- Organisations
Based in the West Midlands, this charity aims to enable rural and disadvantaged communities to participate in creative media activities and, in their own words, ‘create high quality film, photography, web, and print resources, that reflect diverse rural communities and issues, and challenge stereotypes and prejudice.' The website provides access to many of their films (click here) as well as detailed information on their diverse activites aimed at engaging with young people and local communities. They also run media skills courses specifically aimed at the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities as part of a Big Lottery-funded scheme.
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- http://www.unesco.org/archives/multimedia/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Agriculture, Development Studies, Education, History, Nature, Social Welfare
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Organisations, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
UNESCO are making an increasing amount of film and audio material available via their Multimedia pages. A broad range of content is available, beginning in 1945, when the organisation was founded, as documented in this film showing Ellen Wilkinson, then British Minister of Education, reading from UNESCO’s newly adopted constitution. Searching can be done across nine categories: Education; Public Health; Research; Peace & Dialogue; Culture & Traditions; Historic Places; Access to Knowledge; Communities; and UNESCO History. A wide range of material is available, from conference proceedings, interviews and lectures to recordings of performing arts events, documentaries on sites of historic or natural interest and films about UNESCO’s projects and initiatives. The material is all freely available to view. Some films are represented by extracts but registered users can request to see the whole film via the Video on Demand service.
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- https://eol.org/
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- Bio-Medical
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- Biology, Botany, Nature
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- Film/Video
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- Blogs, Discussion Lists, Information Sources, Podcasting, Streaming/Download, Web Links
Website with the ambitious aim of gathering together information on all 1.9 million species currently known to science. The site is constructed on the basis one page per species, with biological classification, in expandable taxonomic ranks, displaying alongside images, video, text and bibliographic references. There are a number of resources aimed at helping users navigate such a large amount of information, from explanatory articles - on topics like biodiversity and species classification - links to podcasts, informational videos and Google Earth tours . The site is aimed at enthusiasts, students, teachers and scientist alike.
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- https://www.macaulaylibrary.org/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Biology, Environmental Studies, Nature
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums
Part of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Library’s archive defines itself as ‘the world’s largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings.' With recordings going back to the 1920s, exaxcting details are provided for the hundreds of thousands of items, both audio and video, though not all have been digitised yet. Encoding levels are generally high.
Its vast array of holdings are complimented by helpful guide on academic citation of their AV records as well as details on how to add content to the library.
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- https://www.amnh.org/explore/science-bulletins
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Genetics, Nature
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download, Web Links
The American Museum of Natural History curates this series of videos highlighting the latest developments in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics, earth science, biodiversity and human biology and evolution. The videos - which are streamed on the website or free to download - feature documentaries, visualisations and news items, all of which are accompanied by synopses, links and suggestions for use in the classroom.
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- https://www.howstuffworks.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Science and Technology
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- Archaeology, Biology, Computing, Engineering, General Science, Nature, Technology
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- Film/Video, Radio/Sound
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- Blogs, Podcasting, Streaming/Download
The brainchild of former North Carolina State University professor Marshall Brain, this site uses various media, including podcasts and videos, to explain how things work. It is essentially a popular science site but contains a great deal of high quality educational content and has now expanded to cover non-science subjects (see for example How Nepotism Works). Searching is made easier by a clear interface in which categories with their various subdivisions are simply displayed: the Engineering Videos page, for example, features categories such as Robotics, Buildings and Structures, Materials Science. The site’s videos and podcasts are supplemented by a number of blogs.
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- http://www.xeno-canto.org/
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Nature
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- Radio/Sound
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- Streaming/Download
This website, which has the support of a number of academic and birdwatching institutions, is a community database consisting of recordings of bird sounds from around the world. There are around 67,000 calls and songs from over 7,000 birds and the site’s search engine enables the user to search according to a variety of sonic criteria, including length, volume and pitch. All the sounds are classified by species, country and location, time, date, elevation and are assigned a unique catalogue number. The recordings appear under a Creative Commons licence and can be downloaded and used under the terms of that licence.
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- https://www.futurity.org/
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- Bio-Medical, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Astronomy, Biology, Botany, Chemistry, Computing, Environmental Studies, General Science, Genetics, Geography, Geology, Nature, Physics, Technology
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Update
This website brings together news of the latest science research from universities in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the USA. There are four main categories: Earth and the Environment; Health & Medicine; Science & Technology and Society & Culture. Most of the news consists of articles illustrated with still photographs but some moving imagery is used, as in this article which looks at how quickly can glaciers grow (and melt)?, using a study of the prehistoric activity of Baffin Island’s glaciers with a view to developing accurate models to predict how climate change in the future will affect glaciers and ice sheets.
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- https://www.linnean.org/
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- Science and Technology
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- Biology, Botany, Nature
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- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Podcasting
The Linnean Society of London is a learned society dedicated to the study of taxonomy and natural history and named after the Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus. As its website says, the society "uniquely embraces the entire sweep of natural history [and] promotes the study of all aspects of the biological sciences, with particular emphasis on evolution, taxonomy, biodiversity and sustainability". The website hosts a number of video podcasts, which cover a wide range of subjects from Sir David Attenborough’s Darwin Lecture from November 2011 on Alfred Russel Wallace and The Birds of Paradise, to Science, politics and policy on biodiversity and climate change, encompassing important current trends in biodiversity and conservation as well as the broad sweep of natural history since the 18th century.
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- http://www.snagfilms.com/
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- Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
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- Current Affairs, Education, Environmental Studies, Film Studies, History, Literature, Nature, Politics and Government, Social Studies
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- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Website offering over 3,000 streamed films, which are available to view for free and supported by advertising. Most of the content is documentary but there are some fiction and feature films. The site is searchable by subject and by channel, or production company and the films include synopses and credits. There is also a ‘Filmanthropy’ section where films are arranged thematically according to their power to inspire or enlighten the viewer and all the films are linked to related charitable causes. Due to licensing agreements not all the films are available to viewers in the United Kingdom.
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