The best Online Video Libraries

Here is a list of video libraries with talks in topics such as Arts and Humanities, Business and Economics,  Computer Science and Engineering, Health and Medicine,  Sciences, Social Sciences, Entertainement and etc, from the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers.

1. TED

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader [About TED].

The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week.

2. Research Channel

ResearchChannel was founded by a consortium of leading research and academic institutions to share the valuable work of their researchers with the public.

Remarkable speakers, researchers and scholars present revolutionary thoughts and discoveries on ResearchChannel.

Viewers access programs online via a live webstream and an extensive video-on-demand library. The library houses more than 3,500 full-length programs that are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week[About RC].

3. Google Talks

Video Library with videos from the talks held at Google (for Google employees) featuring everyone from newsmakers to bestselling authors. The talk include the following self-explanatory areas of interest:

Authors@Google, Candidates@Google,  women@Google, leading@google, techtalks@google

In a next post I will compile some of my favourite videos from these web sites. Enjoy!!