Digital Media Center Databases

The following databases from OhioLINK's Digital Media Center are available to Ohio's PreK-12 students and educators without usernames or passwords. Use the Multimedia Tools link in the left menu to download needed plug-ins for these databases.

	Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics Recorded Bird Songs Approximately 4,000 audio recordings of birds, primarily warblers, can be heard with RealPlayer. And more are coming soon.  Founded by the late Dr. Donald Borror, Professor of Entomology and Zoology at The Ohio State University, the Borror Laboratory is one of the largest collections of recorded animal sounds in the world.
	Foreign Language Database Ohio Five ViewPoints Project videos Hundreds of QuickTime video clips of native speakers in several languages. The speakers talk about a variety of topics relating to their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each clip has a description and grammar/vocabulary notes.
85th Flight of the Wright 1904 Flyer Courtyard of the Birds, Uxmal, Yucatan, Mexico	Historic & Archival Collections More than 3,000 images are currently available from the National Underground Freedom Center, Ohio State University Department of Archives and Special Collections, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, University of Akron Libraries, and Wright State University Libraries. Other images include more than 500 images of Mayan archaeology from Oberlin College and hundreds of paper impressions of Greek and Latin inscriptions contributed by the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University.
Volcano, Java, Indonesia	Science Database Historic and recent images Images currently available include nearly 600 environmental geology images from Oberlin College and 4000 forestry images from The Ohio State University and more.