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Eastern Florida Online (EFO) Students' Library Guide

Information for students who take classes online

Video / Streaming video searching

The EFSC libraries offer access to several streaming video collections available online 24/7.

  • Academic Video Online: Premium - includes over 20,000 streaming video titles from all disciplines.

  • Ambrose Videos - includes the BBC Shakespeare Series, Turning Points history series, the Ascent of Man series, and more.

  • American History in Video - streaming video clips on American history. Transcripts are provided along the side of the videos for easy reference.

  • Feature Films for Education - streaming collection includes over 600 popular films, award winners, documentaries, and foreign films. Films best viewed in Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge. 

  • Films on Demand - over 20,000 streaming films on the humanities, social sciences, and consumer sciences.

  • Nursing Education in Video - training videos for nurses and health sciences students.

  • Veterinary Education in Video - training videos relevant for veterinarians, vet techs, assistants and other team members.

Troubleshooting Tips for getting videos to play in various browsers

Film playback relies heavily on cookies so it is important that cookies be purged from the cache often when watching films (and Chrome likes to hoard cookies, which makes it problematic sometimes when trying to launch a film). 

We suggest choosing a browser setting that clears cookies every time the browser is restarted -- that will be very helpful.  Seeing a "redirect" error (e.g., "xxx has been re-directed too many times; try again") means that a cookie is being persistent and probably is attached to another film ID, which is preventing you from getting into the film you want to watch.  If you close all tabs, clear the cookies, and then restart the browser, you should then be able to get into the film you want.

You can direct the browser to remember site-information cookies during your browsing session, but then automatically delete the cookies when you quit Chrome.

  1. On your computer, open Google Chrome.
  2. At the top right, click More Moreand thenSettings.
  3. At the bottom, click Advanced.
  4. Under "Privacy and security," click Site settings and then Cookies.
  5. Turn on Keep local data only until you quit your browser.

You can try similar strategies within Firefox and Internet Explorer, too, to help with video-viewing.