Research Resources:
Subject Research Guides:
Communications:
Beyond YouTube and Google: Searching for Videos
Via Rutgers subscription databases
TV-NewsSearch: The Database of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
News footage from 1968 to present for some networks.
Factiva
Searches a few television networks, such as CNN and NBC, starting in late 2007. Click on "Search 2.0" and enter your
search terms. Click on "Multimedia" above search results, then "Video" in order to narrow down your results to videos
only.
Via the Internet
Blinkx
Searches major television networks, as well as YouTube and MySpace. Using speech-to-text technology, Blinkx looks for
your search terms among the words spoken in every video clip.
TruVeo
Searches major television networks, as well as YouTube and MySpace. Includes special features such as a
2008 Election Center which collects clips from television networks, candidates' campaign web sites and
the general Internet.
BBC Motion Gallery
Searches current and archived international broadcasts, including BBC, NHK Japan, CCTV China and ABC
Australia.
News and Public Affairs, Internet Archive
Gathers independent media sources, providing special collections such as the September 11 Television
Archive, the Iraq War Collection and G.W. Bush Presidential Speech Archive.
Moving Image Archive, Internet Archive
Offers an eclectic array of videos, such as early cartoons, B horror movies dating back to the 1950's,
and a collection of ephemeral (trade, educational, advertising) films dating back to the 1920's.
MIT Lecture Videos on Media
MIT lectures, panel discussions and conferences on issues in the media field.
MIC : Moving Image Collections
A union catalog that brings together in one place catalog records for individual moving images collected and managed by a number of organizations.
Classic TV Ads
A selection of TV advertisements from the 1950's to the 1980's.
Museum of the Moving Image
Presents online exhibitions of video clips, such as video games from the 1980's and presidential campaign
films dating back to 1952.
TV Guide's Online Video Guide
Features only professionally produced video segments, including sitcom episodes, talk shows and movie
trailers.
EveryZing
Searches major and local television networks, as well as YouTube and MySpace. Like Blinkx, uses speech
recognition to generate searchable text from media files.
Hulu
Searches current television episodes and movies.
ClipBlast
Searches major television networks, as well as YouTube and MySpace.
Museum of Broadcast Communications
Formerly capable of searching and streaming live video archives, this function is temporarily on hold, but streaming video is still available within certain special-themed collections, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and "The Great Debate," a collection of presidential debates.
Finding Hard Copy Videos/DVDs
You can search our IRIS catalog for DVDs and videos by going into Advanced Search and selecting "Visual Materials" under
the Format options.
For further tips on searching for films in IRIS see this search guide:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/cinema/searching_iris.shtml
For subject-specific video/DVD guides and the Rutgers University Libraries' latest acquisitions, see the Rutgers Media Collection Guide:
http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/media_collections/mediacollections.shtml
PBS VideoIndex Online
Search for mentions of people, places and events in PBS documentaries. Free registration in order to search.
Paley Center for the Media, New York
The center's collection of 85 years of television and radio programs and commercials are not yet available online, but can be viewed on-site at their New York location.
