Scientific films – such as videos of research experiments, computer animations, video abstracts or conference recordings - are an important part of academic communication today. They often allow us to understand complex phenomena better and faster and help to foster an open discussion of research. As TIB, we support (audiovisual) science communication with our various services: from the production to the publication of scientific videos.
... is the heart of our services for scientific films. We offer:
The TIB AV-Portal is the central place to discover exclusively science videos on a large scale, to search specifically for topics and to publish quality-checked videos yourself.
The TIB AV-Portal currently contains over 35,000 scientific videos with a wide variety of content.
The subject focus of the TIB AV-Portal is on science and technology, but the platform is open to all disciplines.
With our regularly changing recommendations on specific topics and events, we invite you to get to know the video variety of the TIB AV-Portal.
All users registered in the TIB AV-Portal can provide materials that are of scientific relevance and fall within the TIB collection profile.
Individual profile pages for editors are a showcase for their own videos.
We offer media partnerships to interested, chosen editors for a systematic and prominent publication and curation of their videos
The key features for the research, reception and publication of academic films include
Individual advice
Whatever you are interested in - research, re-use, publication or production - as part of the TIBgefragt service, we regularly provide individual advice on all aspects of academic films and the TIB AV-Portal.
In our TIB blog, we regularly publish updates on the development of the AV-Portal and introduce new functions and content.
In our FAQ we answer (almost) all questions about the TIB AV-Portal.
More than 4,500 IWF films are searchable in the TIB AV-Portal, and more than 3,000 films (as of 01/2022) are directly accessible online. In the course of ongoing rights clearance, further films will be successively added.
Certain special collections, for example from ethnology and medicine, are only accessible online to a limited extent or offline for legal and ethical reasons.
In various articles on the TIB blog, we tell the story of the IWF, of individual films or film collections, and of the authors.
The scientific community depends on the exchange, communication and dissemination of scientific results, ideas and projects. This happens not least at conferences, meetings, symposia and workshops, without which the scientific landscape would be unthinkable. With the individual conference recording service ConRec, TIB offers a comprehensive portfolio from recording to livestreaming to publishing according to scientific standards in the TIB AV-Portal or on a platform of your choice.
We also think science in video format beyond conference recordings. We also produce infoclips and video abstracts, among other things.
We want to improve the retrieval, searching and citation of research data, graphics, Open Educational Resources (OER) and especially videos. That's why we develop and operate innovative infrastructures, tools and services in the Non-Textual Materials (NTM) Lab, which was founded in 2012: In addition to the ongoing further development of the TIB AV-Portal, these primarily include innovative audio visual analysis tools as well as digitisation and long-term archiving processes - always in close cooperation with the TIB Visual Analytics Research Group. In this way, research results flow directly into practice - and not least into effective video research.
Extending of the TIB AV-Portal to include an analysis platform for needs from media science
Supporting effective research in film and television archives through the development of innovative video mining software
Operate and maintain a subject-specific instance of the AV-Portal for civil engineering, architecture and urban studies
Editing and curating audiovisual content with a focus on technology and natural science for multimedia collections on the history of the 20th century in change
Discover a small compilation of lectures and more with many suggestions for science communication by using videos.
With the OER portal twillo, we operate a sustainable platform for publishing and sharing open educational resources, including videos, of course.
The platform Wissenschaftskommunikation.de contains many contributions and tips on the topic of audio-visual knowledge transfer.
The Centre for Quality Enhancement in Teaching and Learning (ZQS) at Leibniz Universität Hannover offers a range of tools and tutorials for recording audio contributions and for creating, editing and publishing videos.
