Off-campus access to databases
Some of the sources in this guide are freely available through the Internet. Others will prompt you for a login. Use your UM user ID and password to access these resources. (Hint: Use the same username and password you use to login to Canvas.)
Films on Demand & Alexander Street
UM's library subscribes to the Films on Demand and Alexander Street (Counseling and Therapy in Video) databases, providing access to over over 200,000 quality streaming videos (and video segments) produced by a variety of publishers and covering multiple disciplines.
You can access these database collections by
- clicking the Databases button on the library homepage.
- using the Discovery search box on the library homepage.
- using the external tool feature in Canvas
And, like all database content, these films are accessible on and off campus.
Direct links to the databases are provided below.
Be sure to click on the Embedding in Canvas tab in the left menu to learn about how to embed these videos in you web-enhanced, online, or blended classes.
- Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowA streaming video collection containing thousands of educational films and documentaries for all academic disciplines. Content comes from quality publishers like PBS, Meridian, Cambridge Educational, the BBC, National Geographic and more. UM community members have access to over 40,000 titles. Many of the titles are closed captioned.
