Streaming Media Requests
Streaming requests for movies and documentaries are now available through ARES by submitting requests through the Streaming Video (if available) icon. If USC owns streaming rights a link will be posted on the ARES record for students to stream. If not available, the title will be searched in the Leavey's DVD hard copy collection and placed, with the instructor's permission, on reserve at Leavey Reserves. Titles not available for streaming or owned by Leavey's DVD collection will be considered for purchase and added to the DVD collection, if approved by a librarian. Purchase of a DVD will take four to six weeks to be cataloged and processed by the Leavey reserve staff and made available to students.
Please note that USC is not able to license media content that is exclusive to a streaming provider such as Netflix, Amazon Prime. Disney+, or others at this time. However, since the streaming business is ever-changing we will provide updates to requested content that become available for academic use if requests are resubmitted from one semester to another. For example, a title exclusive to a streamer might not be available now, but that could change in a year or two when rights or licensed shift from streamer to streamer.
Also, not all titles are licensed to stream or available in streaming format and requests may be cancelled.