Research Help
A help guide on some key activities involved in research processes.
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- Research Overview
- Topic Help
- Types of Information Sources
- Searching for Information
- Evaluating Information
- Taking Notes and Organizing Information
- Citing Sources
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Online Sources for Videos
Videos can be useful resources in your research. Besides giving visual components or explanations to your research topic, they also can give a very different perspective from written sources.
There are many different online sources for informational videos:
- Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? For an extensive collection of streaming videos and films.
- What's included? Contains a wide range of films and television series, as well as documentary videos produced by PBS, BBC, Documentary Educational Resources and more.
Our collection also includes Media Education Foundation's Media Studies & Communication Collection. - Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
- Why search here? Excellent source for streaming videos.
- What's included? Includes documentaries, world cinema, archival, nursing, and physical therapy collections, plus much more.
- YouTubeYouTube contains user-contributed videos, so evaluate videos carefully before using
- PBS VideosCollected videos from many different PBS television programs
Free images, photos, and videos for presentations
As a student, you need to be aware that copyright laws still apply to you, especially when using images in presentations or other projects you create for a course assignment. The following are great sources for images licensed for copying and reusing.
- Creative Commons: Media SearchThis searches common image sources (Flickr for example) for just those images licensed for copying.
- UnsplashDatabase of free photos. No permission needed.
- PixabayDatabase of free photos. No permission needed.
- PexelsDatabase of free photos. No permission needed.
- Last Updated: Mar 25, 2024 1:36 PM
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