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Technical Services: Kanopy

Kanopy Streaming Video PDA

Miami University Libraries (Oxford) started a streaming video PDA pilot with Kanopy in late November 2014 and ended on June 30th, 2019. 

Kanopy is a streaming video platform with more than 15,000 films from a variety of collections and producers, including the California Newsreel, Green Planet, PBS, BBC Active, and Stanford Executive Briefings collections.

Download Kanopy logos and other promotional materials (maintained by Kanopy)

View/download at Google Docs:

  • List of packages and titles in the Kanopy PDA pilot
  • Streaming video PDA presentation from Charleston Conference 2014
  • Kanopy Launch Guide
  • Kanopy clip-making and playlist instructions
  • Kanopy promotional e-mail templates (for liaisons to send to faculty)
  • Usage statistics 

Access

You must use the link below to access to Miami's Kanopy collection:

https://proxy.lib.miamioh.edu/login?url=http://miamioh.kanopystreaming.com/


PDA Details

  • Videos are triggered for purchase on the 4th play (each play must be greater than 30 seconds; plays less than 30 seconds do not count towards the trigger).
  • Miami's total spend for the pilot has a cap of $6,000; most videos are $135 once triggered for purchase.
  • The $135 cost is for a single year license agreement.
  • All Kanopy videos include classroom and public performance rights (public performance allowed as long as no admission fee is charged).
  • MARC records for Kanopy videos will be loaded into Sierra/MULtifacet as they become available.
  • Detailed usage statistics and analytics can be found in the shared Google folder at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B67fH-J6lxgsYlZNZk0tcElUR1U?usp=sharing.
  • Selectors are encouraged to promote the use of Kanopy PDA videos with their liaison departments.
  • While we are unable to prevent regional campus users from streaming these videos given our shared VPN/proxy server, we are not actively advertising the pilot to regional campus faculty at this time.

Kanopy Search Widget

Use the following code to embed the search box widget below into your website:
<iframe src="https://miamioh.kanopystreaming.com/widget/search/searchbox" width="350" height="150" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Kanopy streaming video widget