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Academic Video Online / AVON

The AVON: Academic Video Online collection includes over 80,000 educational videos spanning a wide range of academic subjects areas and includes documentaries, instructional videos, clinical videos, news, and artistic performances. This is ProQuest's general educational video collection, and all AVON content is available via through this annual, full collection subscription. Includes titles licensed from major video publishers (selected titles from PBS, BBC, California Newsreel, etc.).

Document / source type: Videos (primarily educational/documentaries and instructional; a small collection of films).

Full text: 100% of videos from Academic Video Online available to stream online. 

(Note: if you see content marked sample, you are searching Alexander Street video titles outside of the AVON collection. "Sample" videos are not part of our subscription and are not available.)

Search Tips - Post-Search Filter:

The Filter available after your search allows you to limit by:

  • Subject
  • Publisher
  • Content Type (documentary, performance, instructional material, etc.)
  • Release Date
  • Video Duration

For help with searching and content:

Citing / Emailing a Link

Citing an AVON Video

Cite iconUse the Cite feature to generate an academic citation to the video.

  • Be sure to choose the correct citation type
    • For example APA7 instead of APA6.
  • Be sure to review and correct for obvious errors.
  • The link is generic and will not work off-campus.
    • On -campus
  • Example citation (APA Reference list entry):

Shackleton, J. (Director). (2020). Dogs. [Video/DVD] BBC Worldwide. https://video.alexanderstreet.com/watch/dog

Linking to an AVON video

Share icon on main video screen.     Cite icon during playback.

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