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Faculty Support: Swank Streaming Video

Streaming videos are a great way to add engaging content to online courses in a broad range of fields beyond film studies. Everyone from Sociology and LGTBQIA+ Studies to Environmental Studies and Mental Health Counseling can benefit.

Swank Digital Campus offers many popular films and current releases as well as HBO documentaries and TV series for use in online courses. UCF currently has 364 Swank films licensed for use including recent releases like Just Mercy (2019), Bombshell (2019), and The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019) to classics such as Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Greed (1924). Links for these films can be sent the same business day as the request.

If none of those great films fits your course, you can search the full Swank catalog for specific films or browse by discipline. If you see anything you like, submit a request through the form on our guide.

And to help with your searching the list of currently licensed films is now sortable by title, year, or expiration date. Primary category will be added to the sorting options soon.

Faculty Support: We Have You Covered Text on Image of Open Book with Pen

Faculty Support: HathiTrust Books Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS)

“HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.” 

UCF is providing temporary online access to many HathiTrust digitized books which are owned in print by our UCF Libraries and for which the digitized copies are normally blocked because they fall within the period restricted by copyright. 

“Temporary Access” books:  

  • Current UCF students, staff & faculty. 
  • Login with NID after connecting 
  • Can be read ONLY online  
  • Check out for 1 hour (access will renew automatically at the end of that hour, unless another user requests the book) 

Research Tips Thursday: Identifying Good Evidence

Research Tips Thursday: Identifying Good Evidence

Looking for a quick and easy technique to help you incorporate supporting evidence in your writing? Check out this week’s Research Tip Thursday video! You will find a simple strategy that you can use to keep track of evidence as you go and quickly identify gaps that need filled.

Find this video and more at guides.ucf.edu/rtt

Featured Bookshelf: Hispanic Heritage

Hispanic Heritage Month, established in 1988, runs from September 15 through October 15. It recognizes and celebrates the contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans have made to the United States. Florida in particular has a strong Hispanic legacy including the oldest inhabited city in the U.S., St. Augustine, which was founded in 1565 by the Spanish. UCF will also be celebrating our status as a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI) which means more than 25% of our enrolled students identify as Hispanic. Details on the HSI Week events can be found through the UCF Events Calendar.

Join the UCF Libraries as we celebrate our favorite Hispanic authors and books. Click on the link below to see the full list, descriptions, and catalog links for the featured Hispanic Heritage titles suggested by UCF Library employees. These 10 books plus many more are also on display in the new 4th floor Reading Room in the John C. Hitt Library.

Featured Bookshelf: Hispanic Heritage

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