Curio.ca (from CBC) Academic Libraries
Please find below resource(s) available for Renewal
License Begins:
September 1, 2022License Ends:
August 31, 2023This is the renewal invitation for Curio.ca from CBC for the period September 1, 2022 through to August 31, 2023. Five products are available:
- Curio.ca
- News in Review
- L'Actualité en revue
- National Geographics (English and French)
- BBC Channel
A library must subscribe to the base Curio.ca product in order to add additional components. Each of the five products is separate and needs its own subscription. (There has been some confusion about this in the past, as the Curio.ca website does not make this clear, but News in Review, National Geographic and now BBC Channel are not included in the base Curio.ca subscription.)
Pricing for Curio.ca is based on the total number of FTEs across the participating universities and colleges - the FLE price has not changed over last year. Individual institution prices will vary slightly, as we've updated the pricing for TAL member institutions' current enrollment.
This offer is currently being offered to academic libraries.
This is a Consortia Canada negotiated product, led by BCI.
2022-06-17
The BBC launched its new platform for Curio in September 2021. The old platform will definitively be deactivated July 1, 2022. Some information from the vendor about redirection and the new platform appears below.
Redirects will be put in place.
The proxy URL should continue to work after the removal of the former platform.
Here is the URL of the new platform : https://curio.ca/en/welcome
To ensure that you have an up-to-date catalogue, we strongly recommend that you export MARC records from the new Curio platform since no new content has been added on the old platform since last September.
For more information : How to download MARC records
2022-04-06
A member library asked about content that seemed to have been removed from Curio. The following is the response that was received from Michaël Elbaz, the librarian who works on Curio. As you’ll see, Curio should be seen to a certain degree like an aggregated database, like Ebsco’s, ProQuest’s, Gale’s, etc.
Thank you for your message. CBC/Radio-Canada's rights to this content, all acquisitions, have expired. This explains why the titles were removed from the platform. In fact, Curio’s catalogue is fairly dynamic. We generally add content to Curio on a weekly basis, and from time to time we do lose rights to certain assets, principally acquisitions.
To ensure your libraries can provide an up-to-date Curio catalogue to patrons, we recommend downloading Curio’s MARC records on a fairly regular basis. The catalogue is updated every day and many libraries download our records every 2 to 3 weeks. We offer MARC records for created, modified and deleted assets. More complete information is available in the Help Center, both here and here.
In addition, where applicable, the end-of-rights date for any given asset appears in field 541 of our MARC records.
If you or your members have any questions regarding content or cataloguing, you can contact Michaël at contenus@curio.ca.
From the Vendor:
Curio.ca gives teachers and students streaming access to the best in educational video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada. You'll find documentaries from television and radio, news reports and more — all available with a single subscription!
Our collection features thousands of programs and hundreds of teacher resource guides carefully curated to support provincial K-12 curricula and post-secondary courses across the country. Curio.ca gives teachers and students 24/7 access to a wealth of primary-source content in English and French. It’s a great tool to help students develop critical-thinking skills. Every week, we add new content selected for its educational relevance, always commercial-free, including the latest from CBC’s award-winning documentary, news, drama, and children's programming (e.g. The Nature of Things, The Fifth Estate and The National).
Features include:
Metadata for easy integration into course systems
Options to embed and share content
Ability to create multiple playlists
Content - CBC/Radio-Canada actively adds material to Curio on an ongoing basis. CBC/Radio-Canada has to pay to acquire the rights to programs. Even when programs are broadcast on CBC, that does not necessarily mean that they own the rights; in most cases independent producers make documentaries and shop around for distributors and thus retain their rights. As such the content of Curio.ca does change on an ongoing basis and the vendor recommends updating MARC records regularly.
MARC records are available.
Closed captioning is available.
Late subscriptions are permitted, and their pro-rated pricing will be based on the cents/FTE for the main subscription to Curio.ca.
Response
If you would like to subscribe or cancel a subscription, please respond with your decision to Jocelyn Badley jbadley@thealbertalibrary.ab.ca no later than Thursday, July 7 2022. Current subscriptions will be renewed if cancellation notice is not provided by July 7.
For new subscribers: Please note that each participating institution must select the number of profiles that it wishes to have set up for its clientèle for the Curio.ca product. Each participating institution receives one (main) account under the account of their consortium. Each participating institution can then request a number of accounts to be set up for each professor, who can then set up their individual profile so as to be able to prepare play lists for sharing with the students in their course(s). Library staff may also wish to set up a few accounts, for training purposes. A limit of 2,000 accounts for professors/staff per institution. Names (professors/staff) are not required at the time of subscription.
Adding content
A library can request that a title for which the CBC/Radio-Canada has copyright or distribution rights be added to Curio.ca by completing the request form at https://cbcrc-distribution.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/group/14. The request is sent to the CBC/Radio-Canada's content manager who will in turn indicate whether or not the content can be added.
Statistics
Each subscribing library can produce their institutions' usage statistics from within Curio's admin module. Links to guides and tutorials are below. The guide refers to an "access code" used to create an account. If you don't have the access code for your institution, please see the "Access codes" file in the attachments section above in the Pricing section.
As a reminder, when there is a new subscriber, a welcome email that includes the code and instructions is sent to the contact identified in the response spreadsheet.
Tutorial: https://curio.ca/en/video/curioca-tutorial-account-configuration-and-statistics-6904/