Images
Video
Audio
Social Media
Hodgepodge
100
Some images from this campus "center" are discoverable through Forward.
What is the UW Digital Collections Center?
100
Self-described as the world's largest video discovery platform, this site recently started sending copyright offenders back to school.
What is YouTube?
100
pandora, grooveshark, last.fm
What are free, online sources to stream music?
100
The most popular social networking site in the world, with more than 200 million members.
What is Facebook?
100
The three types of video games circulated by College Library.
What is Xbox360, Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii?
200
This UW Libraries database contains over one million images in the areas of western and non-western architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, and visual culture.
What is ARTstor?
200
This UW Libraries database contains more than 250 performances of the world's leading plays and more than 100 film documentaries, but you won't find BBC productions of Shakespeare play here anymore.
What is Theater in Video?
200
Naxos, DRAM, Classical Music Library
What are resources licensed by the UW Libraries to provide access to streaming music?
200
The world’s largest professional network on the Internet with more than 100 million members in over 200 countries and territories.
What is LinkedIn?
200
This term refers to the growing phenomenon of users accessing their data from anywhere rather than being tied to particular machines.
What is cloud computing?
300
Some of this search engine's advanced image search includes the ability to limit by coloration, domain, and usage rights.
What is Google Image Search?
300
A subscription-based movie and television show rental service that offers media to subscribers via Internet streaming and via US mail.
What is Netflix?
300
This new service from Amazon allows you to securely store your digital music collection and play it on any Mac, PC or Android device.
What is the Amazon Cloud?
300
Use this tool to "check-in" and you may be on your way to becoming a mayor!
What is Foursquare?
300
A not-for-profit organization and licensing system that offers creators the ability to fine-tune their copyright, spelling out the ways in which others may use their works.
What is Creative Commons?
400
This site allows you to search "The Commons" and limit searches to creative-commons licensed content.
What is Flickr?
400
An online video service that offers a selection of hit shows, clips, movies from over 260 content companies, including FOX, NBCUniversal, ABC, A&E, MTV & Comedy Central.
What is Hulu?
400
This resource allows you to download faculty lectures, interviews, seminars, and news and events specific to UW-Madison.
What is iTunes U?
400
Use WordPress or tumblr to create this online journal that’s updated on a regular basis.
What is a blog?
400
A general term to describe technologies used to restrict the use of digital content and devices, preventing use of digital content in a manner not desired or intended by the provider.
What is DRM or Digital Rights Management?
500
This UW Libraries Database includes more than 7.8 million primary source photographs with original captions for every discipline.
What is AP Images?
500
This resource provides descriptive summaries of over 30,000 television news programs collected in the Vanderbilt Archive since August 1968.
What is the Television News Archive?
500
Check out this new site from the Library of Congress to stream historical sound recordings.
What is the National Jukebox?
500
A community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to tweets in order to aggregate, organize and discover posts.
What are hashtags?
500
If you have a Madison Library Card, you can use this database to download audio books and eBooks.
What is OverDrive?