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Off Campus Access to Library Collections

An active ICC network account is required for off-campus access to ICC Library subscription resources and databases, including online articles, streaming video, and e-books. When accessing these resources from off-campus, users will be prompted to log in with their ICC username and password to view resources.

ICC usernames are the first part of your ICC email address, without the @lab.icc.edu part. Passwords are ICC (all capital letters) and the last five digits of your social security number. 

If you do not know your login and password, please contact the Library's Reference Desk at 309-694-5355 or 309-690-6837 and we will be more than happy to assist you.

Questions?

Please email library@icc.libanswers.com if you have questions about streaming videos for courses.

Library staff is also available to help with most questions during open hours. Call, email or chat with us! 

Chat is located in the yellow box at the bottom of all pages. 

Alexander Street Press

Alexander street is a ProQuest Company. The ICC Library subscribes to several Alexander Street collections, which you can see in the A-Z Database list, or below. 

  • Academic Video Online
    Is a comprehensive streaming media collection available to libraries. It delivers more than 67,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas.
  • Asian Film Online: Volume I and II
    Asian Film Online: Volumes I and II offer a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker.
  • Black Thought and Culture
    Black Thought and Culture is a landmark collection of non-fiction writings by major American black leaders, covering 250 years of history. The ideas of over 1,000 authors present an evolving and complex view of what it is to be black in America.
  • Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video Best Bet
    Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video is a collection of documentaries, training videos, and interviews illustrating the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety.
  • Current Affairs in Video Best Bet
    Current Affairs in Video is a unique streaming video resource featuring a collection of issue-based documentaries from around the world.
  • Music Online: American Music - Alexander Street Press Best Bet
    Music Online: American Music is a history database that allows people to hear and feel the music from America's past. The database includes songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers and cowboys.
  • Music Online: Classical Music Library - Alexander Street Press
    Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries.
  • Music Online: Jazz Music Library - Alexander Street Press
    Music Online: Jazz Music Library is the largest and most comprehensive collection of streaming jazz available online — with thousands of jazz artists, ensembles, albums, and genres.
  • Music Online: Listening - Alexander Street Press
    Music Online: Listening allows students and researchers to analyze unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world. Music Online: Listening is a multidisciplinary collection of audiovisual content.
  • Music Online: Popular Music Library - Alexander Street Press
    Music Online: Popular Music Library from Alexander Street contains a wide range of popular music from around the world, including hundreds of thousands of tracks from major genres in pop music, including alternative, country, Christian, electronic, hip-hop, etc.
  • Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries - Alexander Street Press
    Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions.
  • Nursing Assistant Education in Video
    Nursing Assistant Education in Video gives students and faculty access to Medcom-Trainex's highly-focused training program on the fundamentals of nursing assistance.
  • The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy Best Bet
    The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy is the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Best Bet
    Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 is a resource for students and scholars of U.S. history and U.S. women's history, organized around the history of women in social movements in the U.S. between 1600 and 2000.
  • World History in Video-Alexander Street Press Best Bet
    is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.

Explore Alexander Street

Use the menu from any collection to access all collections from Alexander Street. 

 

How to Login to a Video from a Permalink

Learn how to login to an Alexander Street Press video, from a copied permalink. Users are taken to an Alexander Street Press login screen before they are prompted to login via the ICC Library.