Ellen Sexton
The John Jay community is making good use of our streaming media platforms—though because we only collect aggregated data, we don’t know who is watching, or why. We assume that the most watched titles are being assigned as class viewing. In general, usage peaks during the Spring and Fall semesters, and drops off during January intercession and the summer. The most watched videos are documentaries. Below is some data from our three most popular platforms.
Alexander Street: includes American History in Video; Counseling and Therapy in Video; Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video; Ethnographic Video Online; Human Rights Studies Online; Psychological Experiments Online; and the PBS Video Collection.
Films on Demand: Over 10,000 documentaries, dramas, and newsreels from the world
Kanopy: Currently streaming about 200 documentaries, feature films and instructional films to the John Jay community.
(Please note as of 4/19/2018, for financial reasons, we have had to cease our PDA model and are no longer able to offer our users the ability to choose and add more videos to our Kanopy collection themselves. Our access is currently restricted to films users have already viewed sufficient times to have triggered licenses. Faculty wishing to request special access to specific titles should contact the media librarian Ellen Sexton. Please note that New York Public Library provides access to a much larger collection.)
Top 12 videos from each platform for the calendar year 2017
Platforms: Alexander Street, Kanopy, Films On Demand.
|
Title |
Collection / distributor |
Plays |
Platform |
|
The Disappearing Male: Environmental Threats to Human Reproduction |
TVF International |
1393 |
Films on Demand |
|
Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo and the Search for Identity |
Illumination Films |
1228 |
Films on Demand |
|
The Sociology of Crime and Deviance |
Online Classroom Ltd. |
578 |
Films on Demand |
|
All About Food Additives |
Video Education America (VEA) |
339 |
Films on Demand |
|
The Abused Woman: A Survivor Therapy Approach |
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1 |
326 |
Alex St |
|
Mississippi Cold Case: Solving a Murder from the Civil Rights Era |
Canadian Broadcasting Corp. |
322 |
Films on Demand |
|
The Official Story |
Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) |
286 |
Kanopy |
|
Inhalants |
Cambridge Educational |
271 |
Films on Demand |
|
Interview with a Serial Killer |
Digital Right Group Limited |
269 |
Films on Demand |
|
Eyewitness: Who Did It? |
Open University |
257 |
Films on Demand |
|
Voltaire: A Concise Biography |
Academy Media |
236 |
Films on Demand |
|
Heaven: How Five Religions See It |
Crew Neck Production |
224 |
Films on Demand |
|
Taboo: Child Rearing |
National Geographic Digital Media |
223 |
Films on Demand |
|
The Toxins Return: How Industrial Poisons Travel the Globe |
Journeyman Pictures |
222 |
Films on Demand |
|
Multicultural Counseling/Therapy: Culturally Appropriate Intervention Strategies |
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1 |
214 |
Alex St |
|
Understanding Group Psychotherapy: Outpatients, Part 1 |
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1 |
151 |
Alex St |
|
Understanding Group Psychotherapy: Outpatients, Part 2 |
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1 |
151 |
Alex St |
|
My Brooklyn |
New Day Films |
110 |
Kanopy |
|
Cultural Competence in the Helping Professions |
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume 1 |
106 |
Alex St |
|
Handel: Water Music |
The Great Courses |
105 |
Kanopy |
See our Media Guide for more about the Library’s collections of documentaries, feature films, training films, and more, in streaming and DVD formats. Please contact the librarian responsible for media, Ellen Sexton, with questions, comments, acquisition suggestions.