Swank Digital Campus: How to Find Films and Link to Them

Title Search: Search by title or title keyword.  The default search.

Person Search: Search by actor or director.

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Title View: View all the films in alphabetical order by title.  The default view.  Please note that titles beginning with "a", "an", or "the" are in alphabetical order by "a", "an", or "the" not the next word in the title.  This has been reported to SWANK.

Category View: View all the films divided into categories such as action, adventure, etc.

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Filter: Some useful options for finding films.  Choose a single category, audio language, subtitle language, or movie industry rating.  No need to enter a search.

Audio Language: Many of the films offer audio in languages other than English.

Subtitles: Many of the films offer subtitles in languages other than English.

Rating: Choose from standard film industry ratings.

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Begin a New Search: Click on the SWANK logo.

When you click on a film, along with the controls for watching the trailer or the whole film, and some brief information, you will see the Share feature.  Click on it, then on Copy Direct Link.  You will get a popup window confirmation.  Now you can paste the link wherever it needs to be.

ANOTHER WAY TO SEARCH

You also can use OneSearch to find SWANK films.  Enter a title or title keyword and choose the Books and Media (CSUSB) search option.

To the left of your search results, under Refine my results - Resource Type, click the box for Video.  Next, click the title of the film, then click the SWANK link to view the film.

ANOTHER WAY TO LINK TO A VIDEO

You can link to a video in OneSearch.  After clicking the title of the film, click Permalink in the top tool bar.

Next, click Copy the Permalink to Clipboard.

Now you can paste the link wherever it needs to be.

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HINT: Searching for and linking to a video via OneSearch works for all our streaming videos, not just SWANK.