October 22, 2008
America’s Newspapers Database Now Includes Video
Need a news clip for your presentation? Want to catch up on the news? NewsBank’s America’s Newspapers database now includes video news content from the following sources: The Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, local affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, as well as coverage from Canadian Broadcasting, Agence France-Presse and more. This new video content will be added in stages, though many videos are already available.
Users are able to:
- Play news videos within the NewsBank interface, in the same space used to display text articles
- Select specific videos from a comprehensive results lists that also includes NewsBank articles, or restrict a search to only video sources.
- Access recent and archived news videos at your institution or remotely
- Email links of specific videos to friends, or embed them in a presentation
A short advertisement that can be immediately closed will appear prior to each video. Please note that a free Flash plug-in is required to play these videos. It can be downloaded at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.
Posted by Candi Clevenger at October 22, 2008 03:55 PM