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Thursday, 8th October 2009

New Online: Library of Academic and Other Lectures from NPR and PBS

According to a post from Wired Campus, NPR and PBS have started a new site with lectures from a variety of sources.

Access the Forum Network Online Library

From the Web Site:

The Forum Network online library features thousands of lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers and community leaders, available to citizens of the world for free.

The Forum Network collaborates with hundreds of community partners in cities across the US, including libraries, museums, academic institutes, public lecture forums, public policy think tanks, cultural councils, and various other community organizations.

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We offer weekly podcasts, which users can subscribe to through iTunes or the NPR Podcast Directory. We also offer a subset of downloadable videos through our iTunesU and YouTube channels. Search on "Forum Network" in any of these publishing sites.

The database can be searched by keyword*. Users can also browse by topic (click the lectures link), series (then narrow by topic or and/or collection), speakers (an alphabetical list), and Forum Network Online partners.
* Note, Users are searching lecture descriptions not a transcript of the actual presentation.

Finally, users can keep current with what's going on with the Forum Network with Twitter and/or Facebook, Two feature we would like to see is a simple list of new lectures and presentations (maybe an RSS feed?) as they enter the database and the option to limit a keyword search by year.

Access the Forum Network Online Library

See Also: ResearchChannel
Another large (over 3500) and constantly growing compilation of academic lectures/presentations from numerous organizations.

See Also: iTunesU

See Also: YouTube EDU

See Also: YouTube EDU Goes International
(ResourceShelf, 10/5/2009)


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