Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced the launch of SAGE Video, streaming video collections designed to support a range of needs across higher education, including pedagogical use in undergraduate teaching and learning and higher-level academic study and research. Celebrating 50 years as a social and behavioural science publisher in 2015, the first three collections of video content – available now – include Education, Communication and Media Studies, and Counseling and Psychotherapy. More collections will be added in 2016.
With nearly 1,600 videos and 400 hours of content available, the videos include case studies, tutorials, interviews, documentaries, footage of practitioners in real-life professional contexts, and quick-reference definitions. The collections largely comprise exclusive content and were originally commissioned, produced by SAGE, or licensed.
SAGE Video collections were created by taking each discipline and mapping key topic areas to video briefs, to ensure alignment with curricular and pedagogical needs within each subject. Each collection has had oversight from international editorial boards, including SAGE authors and editors, and academic partners.
Additionally, the collections were developed in partnership with librarian advisors, who provided insight into how academic libraries support faculty and student use of video at their institutions. SAGE Video titles will be highly discoverable through indexing in discovery services, e-resource management services, and complete title-level MARC records, via search engines as well as YouTube.
The SAGE Video platform has been designed to provide an elegant, intuitive web interface to support the new video collections. The site provides a range of features to support academic needs, including a fully searchable time-stamped transcript, html text for lecturers to embed videos into learning management systems or create their own short clips for classroom use. Additionally, it fully supports accessibility needs, with features such as hot key short cuts and closed captioning.
SAGE Video collections will expand to include Business and Management, Psychology, and Criminology and Criminal Justice in spring 2016.
