Meet AVON

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Alexander Street Academic Video Online (AVON)

Can’t get enough streaming video?

You’re in luck–the Durham Tech Library now has more online video content! 

AVON (Academic Video Online) is a new library database we’re excited to offer.  It features 70,000 searchable, citable, closed captioned titles spanning a wide range of subject areas (allied health, art, automotive technologies, business, counseling, communication studies, criminal justice, engineering, history, psychology, sociology) and even feature films and award winners. 

Want to see some of AVON’s options? Keep reading! 

  • merchants of doubt
    Available through AVON
  • no
    Available through AVON
  • paprika
    Available through AVON
  • she hate me
    Available through AVON
  • the merchant of venice
    Available through AVON
  • volver
    Available through AVON

(Yes, Spanish instructors, Volver is here!)

Like the Films on Demand streaming video database (also offered by the Library), AVON is in our library databases list. 

While both the AVON and Films on Demand databases have content in common, much is unique to AVON. 

For comparison: 

Publishers you can't access via Films on Demand: Dow Jones (starting Feb. 2019), Milestone Films, Bloomberg Media Distribution, 60 Minutes, BroadwayHD, Sony Pictures Classics, Dallas Learning Solutions, Wiley's For Dummies, IFC Films, Assoc. for Supervision and Curriculum Dev. (ASCD), Microtraining Associates. Mutual Content Providers: CNN (starting Feb. 2019), A&E Networks, PBS, BBC, Media Rich Learning, First Run Features, VEA, Annenberg Learner, National Geographic, Oscilloscope Pictures, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions

Want to learn more?  Check out Avon’s highlighted contents or learn how to search AVON! 

As with all our library databases, you’ll use your Durham Tech username and password to access it off-campus (same as you’d use for Sakai or Self-Service).

As always, if you have questions, you can connect with a librarian!   We’re happy to help you find your answers.