About Swank
Swank provides selective streaming of feature films, documentaries, and foreign films. Films are licensed on a title-by-title basis by University of Kentucky Libraries.
Searching the catalog / pricing
Upon first accessing Swank Digital Campus, you'll be asked to indicate whether you are an instructor or a student. Instructors can view titles across the entire Swank catalog but can still only watch the films for which UK Libraries has purchased access. This allows instructors to recommend new purchasable titles to the library. Students will only see the titles for which UK Libraries has access.
Advanced search options allow you to search by title, cast members, directors, rating, subjects & themes, release dates, and foreign films. You can also limit titles to films that include English captions.
There are a handful of titles that are restricted use. These are not available to browse, but can be directly linked to in the catalog or in Canvas.
Pricing is $240 per title, with discounts for bundles of 25, 50, 100, 150, or 200 titles.
Embedding and linking to a video
Under each video is one button that provides a proxied linking code and one that provides a proxied code to embed the video in a course management system.
Rights and restrictions
- Classroom viewing allowed? Yes
- Public performance rights? No
- Concurrent usage restrictions? No