Academic Video Online: Premium is designed to bring the highest-quality video content to the broadest range of subject areas. The collection builds off of the multidisciplinary focus of VAST: Academic Video Online. Academic Video Online: Premium takes scholarship one step further by providing access to the entire portfolio of content from each of these collections, plus two others.
Collections that are available in their entirety as part of Academic Video Online: Premium are:
- American History in Video
- Art and Architecture in Video
- Black Studies in Video
- Classical Music in Video
- Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume I, Volume II, and Volume III
- Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
- Current Affairs in Video
- Dance in Video
- Education in Video
- Ethnographic Video Online: Volume I and Volume II
- Filmakers Library Online: Volume I and Volume II
- Global Business and Economics in Video
- Health and Society in Video
- LGBT Studies in Video
- The March of Time®
- New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present
- Opera in Video
- Silent Film Online
- Theatre in Video
- The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy
- World History in Video
- World Newsreels Online, 1929–1966
- Asian Film Online (forthcoming)
- Engineering Case Studies Online (forthcoming)
- Environmental Studies in Video (forthcoming)
On top of the full content of these databases, Academic Video Online: Premium contains eight academic clusters—more than 1,500 hours of content—that are available exclusively to Premium and VAST subscribers. These include:
- Area Studies Video Online
- Ethnic Studies Video Online
- Humanities Video Online
- Psychology Video Online
- Philosophy and Religious Studies in Video
- Science Video Online
- Women’s and Gender Studies Video Online
- World Languages and Literature in Video
LYRASIS members may subscribe at any time.