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Academic Video Online is a streaming video collection containing thousands of video titles in a wide range of disciplines, including biology, business, education, healthcare, the humanities, the physical sciences, and the social sciences. The Academic Video Online collection can be browsed or searched by discipline.

AVO was previously named VAST: Academic Video Online.

Formerly known as VAST: Academic Video Online.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Alexander Street Press

Access over 5000 full text, audio, and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Publisher: American Rhetoric

Digital Theatre Plus offers access to streaming videos of current leading theater productions. It includes behind-the-scenes documentaries, as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of theater productions and texts. Learning resources include detailed introductions, plot summaries, character biographies, relationship maps, language analyses, scene studies, performance backgrounds, and historical contexts for each play.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Digital Theatre Plus
  • Publisher: Digital Theatre Plus

FoD provides instant access to over 24,000 streaming educational videos covering a wide range of subject areas. Instructors: Follow these instructions to embed FoD videos into your Canvas courses.

Follow these instructions to create a personal FoD account. With a personal FoD account you can save playlists with your favorite videos and watch videos using FoD's mobile apps (Android | Apple).

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Films Media Group

Follow these instructions to create a personal Films on Demand account. Then download the app for your device and login with your personal account to watch videos.


This resource provides comprehensive full-text detailed “how-to” information covering a variety of home improvement and repair projects, as well as valuable information for facility maintainers. The content includes over 130 reference books and videos of over 100 repair projects.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Vendor: EBSCO
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Kanopy offers video streaming for thousands of films covering a wide array of subjects across the disciplines. The collection includes educational documentaries, feature films, and interviews from over 900 producers and filmmakers, including Criterion, Green Planet Films, Psychotherapy.net, BBCActive, DEFA Film Library, and Kino Lorber.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: kanopy

The Khan Academy provides free video math tutorials, including algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus. Free registration is required if you want to save your place as you progress through the tutorials.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Khan Academy

Alexander Street Press' Music Online offers thousands of streaming audio recordings, scores, music reference works, and videos of musicians and performers. The database can be searched and browsed by subject, historical event, genre, people, cultural group, place, time period, and ensemble.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Alexander Street Press

Access early Oklahoma newspapers, thousands of historic public records, photos, oral histories, and highlights from the video archives of television stations WKY, KTVY, and KFOR.

  • No restrictions; available to everyone.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: Oklahoma Historical Society

Small Business Reference Center provides up-to-date information on topics related to starting a company, operations management, sales, and growing or rescuing a business. SBRC includes ebooks, full-text periodicals, and over 170 videos on creating and maintaining a successful business.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Publisher: EBSCO

Swank Digital Campus provides streaming access to movies, documentaries, and TV shows from major Hollywood studios, as well as many independent and international filmmakers and studios. Titles are made available to SWOSU students at the request of instructors.

Instructors: See this page for instructions on setting up a Swank Digital Campus instructor account. Click here to browse the full Swank catalog, which offers over 25,000 films, documentaries, and TV shows. To request a Swank video for your course, make a request through your Swank account or contact the Library Director.

  • Access is limited to SWOSU students and employees.
  • Simultaneous users: unlimited
  • Vendor: Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.
  • Publisher: Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.