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Sage Video
What Sage Video is
Sage Video is a web-based educational streaming library for social sciences, designed to connect academic concepts with professional practice. Its collections contain videos developed with academics and practitioners, including tutorials, real-world scenarios, and documentary-style material. Coverage includes business and management, counseling, criminology, education, nursing, psychology, social work, and sociology. Learners can create custom clips and playlists, play videos offline, and download transcripts. The service also presents visual representations of key concepts and describes its content as fully citable. Institutions can use single sign-on through IP, OpenAthens, or EZproxy, and universal search can span applicable Sage Learning Resources products. Secure Center provides MARC downloads, usage views, subscription-sensitivity controls, and username/password access creation. Sage offers training webinars, video tutorials, and technical support. Librarians and faculty can request a free 30-day trial; institutional pricing is tailored and requires contacting sales.
Who it suits
It suits higher-education learners, librarians, faculty, and institutions using social-science teaching materials. The subject coverage also fits learners in counseling, education, nursing, and related professions.
What it does well
- Social-science video collections
- Custom clips and playlists
- Offline playback available
- Downloadable transcripts and citations
- Institutional search and sign-on
What to know first
- No free plan
- Pricing requires a sales request
- Web platform only
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Individual product trial | 30 days; expires automatically · academic or institutional email required · one trial per collection in a 12-month period | Free |
| Institutional collection one-time purchase | per collection; academic pricing based on FTE · perpetual purchase option | $19,500, paid once |
| Institutional collection annual lease | per collection; academic pricing based on FTE · lease access · consortium or promotional discounts may apply | $4,680 a year |
| Institutional subscription | pricing supplied by Sage sales · institutional purchase only | On request |
As learningresources.sagepub.com lists them, read 19 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Sage Video combines broad social-science coverage with tools for clipping, playlists, offline viewing, transcripts, and institutional access. Its paid, institution-focused model is best considered by higher-education buyers seeking citable video resources.
Facts from Sage Video's own pages
- Accessibility
- Sage pledges minimum WCAG AA conformance and Sections 504 and 508 compliance for its video platforms. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Accessibility features
- The product literature lists closed captions, full transcripts and keyboard hot keys for accessibility. · in.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Administration
- Sage's Secure Center administrative tools let institutions download MARC records, view usage, activate subscription sensitivity, and create username/password access. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The product page describes Sage Video as useful for learners across social science professions including counseling, education, nursing, and politics. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- The Charleston Advisor review reports support for IP authentication, Shibboleth and other library access methods. · uk.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Content
- Collections feature videos developed with academics and practitioners, including tutorials, real-world scenarios, and documentary-style content. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Content ownership mix
- The Charleston Advisor reported that Sage produced about 60% of the videos and licensed the remaining 40% at the time of review. · uk.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Content scale
- A 2018 Sage catalog described more than 1,500 hours of social-science streaming video across collections. · in.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Course embedding
- Sage literature states videos can be integrated into learning-management systems, websites and presentations using embed code. · in.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Custom clips
- Users can create custom clips from videos and share or embed them. · in.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Expert content
- Collections are developed with leading academics and practitioners and include Sage-produced and licensed videos. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Founded
- 1965 · learningresources.sagepub.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Headquarters
- Thousand Oaks, California, United States · learningresources.sagepub.com, 28 Sept 2026
- Hosting model
- The Charleston Advisor states that Sage hosts the licensed video content. · uk.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Institutional sign-in
- Sage Learning Resources supports single sign-on and says users authenticating through IP, OpenAthens, and EZproxy can sign in once per session across products. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Learning tools
- Users can make custom clips and playlists and use offline playback. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 11 Oct 2026
- Library discovery integrations
- Sage supports indexing through Alma, Primo, Summon, EBSCO Discovery Service and WorldCat Discovery, with MARC and KBART metadata. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Limit: contract flexibility
- The Charleston Advisor rated contract options below the consumer market and described them as standard educational streaming terms. · uk.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Limit: institutional access
- Sage states that Learning Resources products are sold only through institutional subscriptions or purchases, rather than individual subscriptions. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Limit: partner-content risk
- The Charleston Advisor questioned how Sage would protect or replace partner-licensed videos if those rights ended. · uk.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing transparency
- Current Sage pages direct buyers to sales for demonstrations and pricing instead of publishing current prices. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- Limit: trial eligibility
- Trial requests require an academic or institutional email address; personal Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail addresses are not processed. · learningresources.sagepub.com, 19 Oct 2026
- LMS integration
- A Colorado State University Global case study says faculty embedded full videos and custom clips into Canvas. · stscpextprdwestus001.blob.core.windows.net, 19 Oct 2026
- Maker founded
- Sage says its founder Sara Miller McCune established the company in 1965. · linkedin.com, 19 Oct 2026
Where Sage Video stands on Freedom251
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