Infobase Publishing is one of America's leading providers of supplemental educational materials to the school and library markets. Product formats include books, eBooks, online databases, eLearning Modules, videos, and digital products under such well-known names as Facts On File, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Chelsea House, Bloom's Literary Criticism, World Almanac®, and Ferguson Publishing. With thousands of titles and numerous award winners, Infobase provides students, librarians, and educators with authoritative, reliable resources supporting the curriculum across a wide variety of subject areas from history, science, and literature to careers, health, and social issues.
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Access Video on Demand
Access Video on Demand provides unlimited access for public library patrons to thousands of full-length videos and clips on a wide array of subjects including: Arts & Humanities, Health & Wellness, Science, Mathematics & Technology, Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Home & Family, Travel & Recreation, Careers & Trades, and more! Choose a collection, or subscribe to the complete master collection. Public performance rights are included.
Access Video on Demand: Just for Kids
The Just for Kids Streaming Collection has the educational videos children want to watch, plus songs, games, and other interactives that are sure to entertain, educate, and inspire young patrons. It includes 7000+ videos, songs, games and audios with public performance rights for in-library programming. Producers and series include PBS Kids, Sesame Street, Arthur, Dr. Seuss, Berenstain Bears and more.
African-American History Online
Features thousands of cross-referenced entries, covering the entire spectrum of African-American history.
American History Online
Spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history. Thousands of biographies, subject entries, timeline entries, primary source documents, maps, and images cover the entire spectrum of the American experience.
American Indian History Online
Offers fast access to more than 500 Native American groups and more than 15,000 years of American Indian culture, history, and biographies.
Ancient and Medieval History Online
Encompasses eight civilizations–ancient Egypt, ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient and medieval Africa, medieval Europe, the Americas, and ancient and medieval Asia.
Bloom's Literary Criticism Collection
Collection of major literary works, characters, novelists, authors, critics and more. Includes perpetual access to over 1000 titles with unlimited access/users.
Bloom's Literature
Bloom’s Literature examines great writers, important works, memorable characters, and influential movements and events in world literature. Harold Bloom’s expert works represent his more than 50 years of literary criticism, articles, reviews and more. It is a must have resource for every English department and library.
Business & Economics Collection
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust administrative reporting system.
Careers & Job Search Collection
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust administrative reporting system.
Career & Technical Education Master Collection
Films On Demand Career & Technical Education Master Collection includes:
Chelsea House Biography Online
Chelsea House Biographies Online features full-length biographies of contemporary and historical personalities from around the world, along with useful resources for writing reports.
Classroom Video On Demand
Classroom Video On Demand is a comprehensive, curriculum focused video subscription collection that provides thousands of videos for all departments and subjects. Content is correlated to state, national, STEM, Common Core standards and included dynamic citations. Create and share playlists, save favorites to folders and more.
Communications Video Collection
From rousing speeches and persuasive business proposals to engaging advertisements or heart-wrenching films, the ways in which we communicate—and why—are wide ranging, and every form of communication has its dos and don’ts. This collection covers both basic and advanced techniques of communicating across multiple media and varied settings. Instructional videos, documentary films, and expert presentations cover communicating in advertising, digital media, film, journalism, interpersonal communication, and more.
Credo Academic Core
Credo's Core General Reference Collections enable libraries to build deep, specific eBook collections from highly regarded publishers around the world. The Academic Core Collection covers the primary disciplines of Higher Education, providing students with the reference tools they need to perform research at any level of study.
With regular updates, this Collection includes over 650 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are over 1,000 short reference videos, nearly 300,000 high-resolution art images, and thousands of additional images across all subject areas. Subject coverage is especially diverse and equipped to address all key disciplines.
Credo Academic Core with Topic Pages
Credo's Core General Reference Collections enable libraries to build deep, specific ebook collections from highly regarded publishers around the world. The Academic Core Collection covers the primary disciplines of Higher Education, providing students with the reference tools they need to perform research at any level of study. Topic Pages also promote eResource discovery and library database understanding and usage, making them the ideal starting point for exploratory searching.
With regular updates, this collection includes over 650 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are over 1,100 short reference videos, nearly 450,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps across all subject areas. Subject coverage is especially diverse and equipped to address all key disciplines.
Credo Complete Core
The Complete Core Collection is the ultimate general reference resource for researchers at any level. Curated by subject-matter experts to address over 100 topics, the Complete Core Collection provides a launch pad for every lifelong learner. Complete Core offers a growing list of over 850 titles to help users answer their immediate research needs and engage their curiosity. Content – from major reference works, to multi-volume subject encyclopedias, to field guides, to scholarly handbooks, to animations, and countless other award-winning sources – spans across all disciplines with something for libraries of all types. Also included are close to 2,000 short reference videos, more than 300,000 high-resolution art images, and nearly 200,000 additional images across all subject areas.
Credo One-Time Purchase Titles
Credo has selected the best in-depth reference titles from more than 100 publishers and provides these for perpetual purchase or as part of subscriptions to Essentials Collections. These 3,500+ titles are available and searchable alongside the content in the Credo Online Reference Service platform.
Credo Online Reference Service
Credo Online Reference Service enhances the research experience through authoritative reference content and a one-stop exploratory search platform that drives usage of all trusted library resources. The user-friendly interface is ideal for students starting their research, or learning about the research process during information literacy instruction. Students looking up current events and controversial topics benefit from the Real-time Reference featured search category, which provides frequently-updated, credible background information on issues unfolding in the headlines. With more than 700 searchable, full-text titles from 100+ publishers, Credo covers every major subject.
Credo Public Core
The Public Core Collection provides a diverse learning experience for users of all types. With coverage of popular topics, the Public Core Collection expands on academic reference coverage with helpful guides, general encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, atlases, and more. The Public Core Collection is comprised of a growing compendium of 700 titles intended for learners of all levels and interests. Also included are nearly 1,000 short reference videos, over 300,000 high-resolution art images, and 100,000+ additional images across all subject areas.
Credo Student Core
The Student Core Collection offers students in grades 7-12 level a wealth of insightful content covering topics related to secondary school studies, such as Biology, Physics, Mathematics, Social Sciences, World Cultures, World History, and more. With a growing list of more than 350 titles from renowned publishers such as Dorling Kindersley and Houghton Mifflin, the Student Core Collection is an excellent companion to enhance curriculum-based learning. Also included are nearly 500 short reference videos, over 65,000 fine art images, and over 100,000 additional images across all subject areas.
Curriculum Resource Center
Provides a library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.
Essentials Collection for Community Colleges
A streaming video collection built with community colleges in mind! Add comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection of instruction-friendly videos for every student and department on campus with the Essentials Collection.
Essentials Collections
Credo’s Essentials Collections bring foundational reference titles to your students’ and faculty research activities while maintaining responsible stewardship of your library budget. Twenty-six targeted Essentials Collections offer top-tier reference titles: award-winning, noteworthy, and peer-acclaimed. Available collections are curated by Credo, including seamless updating of titles, additions of newly-acquired content and weeding to ensure continued relevance. Essentials Collections are full-text and searchable alongside the content in the Credo Online Reference Service platform.
Feature Films for Education Collection
Teach with the best Hollywood has to offer and harness the storytelling power of film as a tool for engaging and inspiring students. The Feature Films for Education Collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational instructional purposes. Brought to you in partnership with Global Eagle, this outstanding collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more.
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Provides detailed profiles of more than 3,300 jobs and 94 industries, invaluable advice on career skills, more than 51,000 resource entries, and much more.
Film On Demand: Master Career & Technical Education
Films on Demand: Allied Health
This collection is a carefully selected, expansive compilation of full-length programs and short-form video clips that address the multifaceted needs of allied health professionals. This wide-ranging compilation is designed to not just help nursing students excel in their studies and pass licensure exams, but also to prepare them for long-term success in an increasingly complex health care system.
Films on Demand: Art and Architecture
The FOD Art & Architecture Video Collection offers a vibrant selection of over 750 documentaries, interviews, biographies, and how-to videos spanning the visual arts. Sculpture, painting, graphics, photography, and architecture…history, theory, criticism, appreciation, and application…all with enough range to suit the needs of both basic and advanced courses. Included are titles from Art21, Arte France, BBC, Checkerboard Films, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, and hundreds of independent filmmakers—many available exclusively on Films On Demand.
Films on Demand, Master Academic Collection
With a fresh new look, enhanced functionality, and an improved user experience, Films On Demand‘s platform provides users with the content, tools, speed, and performance that today’s online experience demands. At Films On Demand, we know that content matters. Our video library has been assembled not just with a focus on volume, but also with a discerning eye for quality and relevance. It is the result of decades of careful curating with a single guiding principle: providing every academic department on campus with the most essential video titles for their field of study. Plus, Films On Demand titles have won numerous awards, including Peabody, CLIO, Telly, Emmy®, CINE Golden Eagle Award, Video Librarian Best Documentary, FREDDIE Award, and many more! Archival Films & Newsreels Collection is a free collection provided to subscribers of Films On Demand: Master Academic Package.
Films On Demand Nursing Collection
This collection is a carefully selected, expansive compilation of full-length programs and short-form video clips that address the multifaceted needs of tomorrow’s nurses. This wide-ranging compilation is designed to not just help nursing students excel in their studies and pass licensure exams, but also to prepare them for long-term success in an increasingly complex health care system.
The Films On Demand Nursing Collection includes over 1,400 videos is the subject areas of:
Throughout the collection you will find: step-by-step training videos; scholarly commentary; vivid animation; full-length investigative documentaries; and hundreds of short-form videos that give a succinct snapshot of anatomy, physiology, or specific physical and mental conditions. All full-length programs are broken up into multiple, pedagogical clips, making them convenient for intermittent use throughout in-class lectures.
Films On Demand: Nursing Core Collection
Films On Demand: Nursing Current Concepts & Practices Collection
FMG on Demand
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust administrative reporting system.
Guidance & Counseling Collection
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust administrative reporting system.
Health and Medicine Video Collection
With documentaries on the full spectrum of diseases and disorders, titles on human anatomy and physiology, investigations into public health issues, programming on nutrition and wellness, instructional films on health care and treatment, and primers on careers in health and medicine this comprehensive collection of titles covers the wide range of topics relevant to anyone studying health and medicine.
Health Collection
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust administrative reporting system.
Health Reference Center
Contains thousands of hyperlinked entries organized into four major categories: conditions and diseases, mental health, health and wellness, and body systems. It defines and provides clear information on the causes, cures, key research, medical terms, symptoms, and treatments and trends in each field of study.
History Video Collection
From America to Zimbabwe, from the ancient world to the present day, our collection of thousands of history titles brings to life the time and place your students are studying. This unparalleled collection of documentaries, educational videos, interviews, speeches, and newsreels can be put to work in countless ways.
Humanities & Social Sciences Collection
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust reporting system.
Infobase Learning Cloud
Infobase Learning Cloud Professional Development & Training provides library staff and patrons of all ages and skill level with unlimited, simultaneous access to online learning resources on the most popular software products and in-demand soft skills. Course topics include financial literacy, career readiness and self-improvement along with training on Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Adobe, Apple, Zoom, GoToMeeting, Kahoot!, HTML5, AutoCAD and more.
Instruct
Instruct provides ACRL-aligned multimedia materials to help librarians teach and assess foundational skills to students while aligning information literacy practices with faculty. Choose from included information literacy and/or critical thinking content packages, and begin incorporating high-quality videos, tutorials, and quizzes into your teaching. Highly flexible and customizable, Instruct can supplement online, in-class, or point-of-need instruction. The included Credo Insights assessment platform allows you to measure student progress, report results, and demonstrate the value of your library instruction.
Issues and Controversies
Analyzes and explains hundreds of controversial topics, in a language and format that students can understand. Online features include a complete back file to 1995, weekly updating, interviews with experts, statistical overviews, maps, charts, photos, newspaper editorials, cartoons, primary documents, a full education Resource Center, and extensive linking to related information in the other Facts On File News Services databases.
Issues and Controversies in American History
This searchable and interlinked online subscription database delivers concise and balanced articles on the background, outcomes, and contemporary points of view for the major topics in the American History curriculum. Those articles are supplemented by a specially assembled collection of primary source documents, biographies, timelines, images, statistical charts, encyclopedia survey articles, and an education Resource Center that incorporates the content directly into the learning and teaching process.
Master Academic Collection
Master Academic Collection includes:
Modern World History Online
Nursing and Allied Health Essentials Collection
Credo's Nursing and Allied Health Essentials Collection includes titles covering Anatomy & Physiology, Drugs, Nursing, Emergency Medicine, OT, PT and more.
Nursing Current Concepts and Practices Collection
Infobase is one of America’s leading providers of supplemental educational materials to the school and library markets. Founded in 1941, our company has a long history of publishing award-winning and highly acclaimed resources for K–12 schools, academic institutions, and public libraries. We take pride in creating resources that engage, enhance, and enrich the learning experience of students at all levels. And while we still publish individual print and video titles, we fully embrace the efficiency and expediency of digital formats in the form of online databases, eBook collections, and streaming video collections.
Political Science Video Collection
Whether the focus is American government or global politics, this collection of more than 1,000 titles is an invaluable asset for political science educators and students. From the basics of civics, American democracy, and other forms of government, to the major public policy issues of the day—immigration, globalization, national security, privacy—you will have at your fingertips a rich source of documentary and instructional content that adds context to every lesson.
Science Collection
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust reporting system.
Science Online
Contains extensive information on a broad range of scientific disciplines. The content is organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by the National Science Education Standards
Science Video Collection
The Films On Demand Science Video Collection offers students and faculty unlimited access to over 5,400 films, documentaries, and instructional videos in the areas of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, Environmental Science, Physical Science, Engineering, Geography, and Mathematics.
Sociology Video Collection
The thousands of individual titles in this collection comprehensively cover the wide range of topics essential to the study of sociology. From poverty, gender inequality, and social justice to crime, prejudice, globalization, and so much more, key subjects in sociology are explored by in-depth documentaries and curriculum-focused instructional videos.
Source
Souce is the one-stop platform for preparing students for academic research. Combining scholarly reference content and engaging multimedia instruction modules, Source gives your library everything you need to build the information literacy skills your students will rely on for the rest of their lives. Source’s research component features an easy-to-navigate interface and access to 400+ top-tier reference titles appropriate for grades 7-12. Cultivate information skills using more than two dozen high-quality videos and tutorials alongside helpful instructor guides. All materials can be flexibly used in the classroom, or embedded into your institution’s LMS or website.
Technical Education Collection
Films On Demand is a Web-based digital streaming video delivery service suitable for students and faculty at academic institutions. The collections contain thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. Special features allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, personalize folders, and manage their entire collection through a robust administrative reporting system.
The Human Body: How It Works
Through engaging text and original videos and images, The Human Body: How It Works Online investigates the systems and processes that have a role in keeping the human body working, from organ systems to cells. Perfect for those studying human anatomy and the body's processes, this eLearning Module gives readers the information they need to understand how their bodies work. Learning Units in this eLearning Module cover everything from the circulatory and respiratory systems to the senses and human development.
This eLearning Module is excellent for distance learning, study abroad, and tutoring programs. This dynamic and compelling online resource picks up where the textbook leaves off, bringing the subject matter to life. eLearning Modules are the perfect solution to every educator's goal: helping students achieve their best.
The World Cinema Collection
With more than 380 feature films from the most renowned directors across the globe, The World Cinema Collection includes the best of the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, American and European masterpieces from the mid-20th century, and award-winning contemporary films featured by Global Lens. The collection shines a light on the history of cinema while also providing a glimpse into the cultures and issues of countries around the world.
The World Cinema Collection Fact Sheet
With more than 380 feature films from around the world, this unique collection provides an exciting new way to learn about world cultures. Perfect even beyond film studies classes, these titles bring value to programs in multicultural studies, political science, history, world languages, and more. This important collection includes the best of the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, American and European masterpieces from the mid-20th century, and award-winning contemporary films featured by Global Lens.
Today's Science
This searchable and interlinked online subscription database delivers concise and balanced articles on the background, outcomes, and contemporary points of view for the major topics in the American History curriculum. Those articles are supplemented by a specially assembled collection of primary source documents, biographies, timelines, images, statistical charts, encyclopedia survey articles, and an education Resource Center that incorporates the content directly into the learning and teaching process.
Vault eBook Guides
Collection of 250 eBook titles covering professions in today's workforce. Each title provides a deep dive into the profession. Includes comparison guides, industry information and job outlook.
World Almanac for Kids
World Almanac for Kids includes exclusive online-only material as well as content from award-winning Chelsea House and Facts On File sets and series. Each subject area provides resources for elementary- and middle school-level homework, reports, and projects, and kids can explore age-appropriate topics while developing online research skills with a trusted content source.
World Almanac Reference Database
Provides students and researchers access to authoritative, essential statistics on hundreds of topics in a searchable online format. A natural addition to any classroom or library, this online resource puts the reference shelf staple at users' fingertips, with thousands of expertly organized facts.
World Geography and Culture Online
World Geography and Culture Online enhances the study of countries, places, peoples, and geography concepts and skills. This comprehensive reference site makes it easy to study all aspects of a country, with facts at a glance and in-depth coverage. In addition, comprehensive entries about the U.S. states are also available.
World News Digest (formerly Facts.com)
World News Digest is linked to related content from the other Facts On File News Services databases. "Top Stories" timelines deliver, decade by decade, headlines linked to original coverage of top news stories from 1940 on. Online-only features, such as Country Profiles, Key People, Key Events, and Key Issues — plus maps, charts, photos, primary documents, editorial cartoons, and a selection of newspaper editorials — round out and link to the information in the World News Digest, and place events in historical perspective.
World Religions Online
Explores religion and spirituality in an objective manner, this user-friendly online resource features an easy-to-navigate interface, allowing users to browse core articles by religion. Topic Centers focus on the world’s major religions and traditional spiritual practices, such as Judaism and Native American religions, quickly guiding users to important topics, spiritual leaders, information on sacred texts, and holy days and festivals. A perfect starting point for research, these landing pages also feature a timeline and a fact file on each religion, as well as a video gallery, an image gallery, and a calendar of holidays and observances.
Writer's Reference Center
This comprehensive reference site covers all parts of the writing process, from researching your topic and creating an outline, to writing strong introductions and properly citing sources.