LibGuides: Streaming video and other media at the Lloyd Sealy Library: Films On Demand (Infobase)

Films On Demand (Infobase)

Films on Demand
Over 7,000 documentaries, dramas, and newsreels from the world’s best producers including, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, PBS, National Geographic, NOVA, BBC and more. Videos play best in the Chrome browser. Content may change slightly from semester to semester: the vendor removes & adds some titles every quarter (there may be a lag time in updating Library catalog records).

Scroll down to see some titles in Films On Demand

Sharing permanent URLs for Films on Demand videos

In FIlms On Demand, click the word "share" below the video window, and then "embed link". Copy the embed link, it should include the JJ proxy server prefix.

The permanent URL will look something like this: https://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=100728&xtid=188345

Note it should include a string fod

Sometimes, the embed link leaves out the proxy server prefix. If you do not see the JJ proxy prefix, PLEASE ADD IT BEFORE THE video URL. That is, https://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url=

TROUBLE SHOOTING:

We are aware of problems with some Films On Demand URLs in OneSearch. We apologize for the inconvenience, and we are working on it. If you have a URL that contains the string digital.films or the string avod , it is old & may not work. Please replace it; navigate to the Films On Demand platform, search for your video, and copy the embed url that has the fod string in it.