Beginning on Monday, October 20, NewsBank is adding video news content to online news resources. The complete package from respected media distributor Voxant includes the following sources: The Associated Press, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, local affiliates of ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox, as well as coverage from Canadian Broadcasting, Agence France-Presse and more.
Users will be able to:
• Play news videos within the NewsBank interface, in the same space used to display text articles
• Select specific videos from a comprehensive results lists that also includes NewsBank articles, or restrict their search to "video only"
• Access recent and archived news videos at your institution or remotely
• Email links of specific videos to friends, or embed them in a presentation
Please note that a free Flash plug-in is required to play these videos. It can be downloaded at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer.
-Brandy Klug, Electronic Resources Librarian
Friday, October 17, 2008
NewsBank is Adding Video News Content
