Mediahub: new video, image and sound resource on its way

Posted by Antony Theobald on Friday 05 November 2010 at 9:31am
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If you're not already aware of the EDINA collections, now is a good time to find out more as they are soon to be made available via a single service called Mediahub.

Currently EDINA hosts three separate multimedia collections: NewsFilm Online (news stories and programme scripts from the ITN/Reuters archives), Film and Sound Online (various collections of film, video and sound material) and the Education Image Gallery which now includes material from Digital Images for Education project.

Television set decorated with the titles of popular television programmes, 1968. Design Council/University of Brighton Design Archives via Digital Images for Education.

Bringing these collections together as Mediahub will make things a lot simpler for those looking for quality digital media resources for teaching, learning and research. In addition to Edina's existing collections, the new portal will also cross-search across a number of external media collections (including Wellcome Images, ARKive, British Library Archival Sound Recordings and many others).

Mediahub's initial rollout will take place in January with a full service from August 2011.

The basic institutional subscription will be free and will give access to content from NewsFilm Online and many of the external providers. A paid institutional subscription based on FE/HE JISC Band makes all other content available free at the point of use and licensed for educational purposes.

Having such a broad range of video, images and sounds accessible from a single site makes Mediahub a potentially invaluable resource, and it would be good to see it become the first port of call for many working in UK Further and Higher Education.

If you are interested in finding out about other sources of digital media, you may be interested in our forthcoming workshop on Finding Free-to-Use Images, Video and Audio. And if you use sources you think others should know about, please let us know in the comments.

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