Institutional Subscriptions
An institutional subscription to Peoples Archive is best suited to an group of users within a school, university, college or library. It provides the following features.
All the features of a registered userThe archive currently contains 46 of the 20th century's greatest thinkers, creators and achievers telling their life stories in 5068 stories totalling over 271 hours of footage. Each speaker in the archive also has comprehensive lists of related resources; such as external links, illustrations (extra movies and photographs relating to the story in question), bibliographies, filmographies and internal links to other stories in the archive that explore similar themes. All users of Peoples Archive have complete access to all of this content. As a registered user you can also personalise your use of Peoples Archive by:
More information on the features of registered vs free users can be found in our Guests, Registrants and Subscribers guide in the guides section of the site. Access to higher quality subscriber only moviesThe stories on Peoples Archive are made available in several different formats. As a subscriber you get access to the 3 highest quality video formats and the high quality audio only format. These higher quality formats not only have larger display sizes but also have higher quality picture and sound than the lower quality formats made available to guest and registered users. More information on the different formats and examples of each can be found in our Sample Movies guide in the guides section of the site. Early access to new speakers with our "Subscriber Only Preview" featureWhen we add new speakers to Peoples Archive they are placed in a "Subscriber Only Preview" status for at least a month. During this time, only subscribers will be able to view the movies, read the transcripts or see the related resources. Guests and registered users will be able to see that we have a new speaker available, but will be unable to explore their life story. More information on the "Subscriber Only Preview" feature can be found in the Guests, Registrants and Subscribers gudie in the guides section of ths site. Automatic subscription for unlimited users based on IP recognitionTo make the access to your archive simple we use IP address recognition to connect your users to your institutional subscription. The only thing that we require from your users is that they complete the registration process. Once they have registered and they login to the site we detect their IP address and match it up with your subscription details to automatically grant subscriber-level access to your user. This automatic detection works on the assumption that your users login from within your network, and it is crucial that you give us the correct information about your network for this to function correctly. Don't worry if it sounds complicated, our customer services team will contact you to guide you through the process once you let us know you are interested. Roaming access allowing institutional members to view the archive from home or when travellingAs mentioned above we use IP address recognition to connect your users to your institutional subscription. When your users are connected to your subscription by using the site from within your network we "stick" the connection to that user for a period of 30 days. What this means is that when they are outside your network, for example at home, at a conference, or on a business trip, they can still use Peoples Archive with the full access that your institutional subscription provides until this 30 day period elapses. These connections are renewed each time your users visit Peoples Archive from within your network, so if the 30 day period expires a user simply has to visit Peoples Archive from within your network to re-establish it. We call this "Roaming access" and believe it offers a significant benefit to your users. The 30 day limit is the default time period, longer or shorter periods can be arranged on a case-by-case basis during your subscription by contacting us. Flexible pricing based on the number of concurrent users viewing moviesWe have chosen the fairest way to charge subscribers for the use of video-on-demand systems - concurrent usage. This means that you are charged for a block of users who can access the video content concurrently. All of your users can browse, search, read transcripts without limitation but only the number of users you have chosen can view videos at any one time. If more users try to watch movies than you have subscription blocks for, they will get a message on screen telling them when the next slot will become free and we will notify you of how many of these blocking events occur and whether there is a pattern to them so that you can manage your subscription efficiently.
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Diagram showing how Peoples Archive concurrent access based subscriptions provide videos to many users.