Vanderbilt Television News Archive

Request a Loan from the Collection

All items in the archive are available through our loan service. Loans are delivered digitally and access automatically expires after 30 days. Loans may be renewed one time for an additional 30 days.

To comply with the terms of the copyright law, collection materials are considered a loan. A service fee is charged to cover the processing of the loan.

Loan Services

Compilations are produced from individual news segments as requested by the patron. To request a compilation, use the TV News Search interface to add clips to your check-out “cart.” The processing fee includes a $10.00 set-up fee plus a fee per clip based on the patron’s affiliation:

  • Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff are charged $12.00 per clip. VU patrons can stream all the archive’s content, so only use this option if the digital file is needed.
  • Patrons associated with a sponsoring university or college are charged $12.00 per clip. Please contact your institution’s library to find out if your school is a sponsor. Sponsoring patrons can stream the archive’s NBC and CNN content, so only use this option if you need the digital file or want to access content from other networks.
  • Patrons associated with an educational institution are charged $17.00 per clip. For higher education patrons, please use a valid “.edu” email address when placing your loan request. For K-12 patrons, please use your school-assigned email address if possible.
  • All other patrons are charged $27.00 per clip.

Duplications will give you a complete evening news program for a given network on a specific date. Some holdings in our collection such as specific programs (e.g. Nightline, 60 Minutes or Face the Nation) and reports on specific events (e.g. speeches, hearings, or live events) can only be requested as Duplications.

The processing fees charged for duplications depends on the patron’s affiliation:

  • Vanderbilt students, faculty and staff are charged $25.00 per half hour. VU patrons can stream all the archive’s content, so only use this option if the digital file is needed.
  • Patrons associated with a sponsoring university or college are charged $25.00 per half hour. Please contact your institution’s library to find out if your school is a sponsor. Sponsoring patrons can stream the archive’s NBC and CNN content, so only use this option if you need the digital file or want to access content from other networks.
  • Patrons associated with an educational institution are charged $50.00 per half hour. For higher education patrons, please use a valid “.edu” email address when placing your loan request. For K12 patrons, please use your school-assigned email address if possible.
  • All other patrons are charged $100.00 per half hour.

Creating a Video Loan Request

For detailed instructions about creating a video loan request, please review our tutorials. After you make a loan request, you will receive an email to establish your Vanderbilt Media Database account. Once the loan is fulfilled, you will receive an emailed link to a media folder containing the contents of your order.

Loan Format

We currently loan H.264 MP4 video formats, typically 720 x 480-pixel dimensions, with an overall average bitrate of 4000kb/s.

Method of Payment

Payment must be received before any order can be processed. Payment can be made by debit or credit card (Visa, MasterCard, AmEx, or Discover). We do not accept checks.

Processing Your Request

Loan requests are typically processed within 3-5 business days; however, large orders may take longer. Please note there is a $3,000 limit per loan request in order to manage our staff's workload. If you need to request more items from the archive, contact us so we can discuss a timeline for delivery. Loan requests are not processed on weekends, federal holidays, or university holidays.

Rarely, a problem with retrieving requested items for duplication or compilation occurs. In these instances, we will send you the parts of your order we successfully processed. Then, we will email you to see if you would like to wait for the issue to be resolved or request a replacement clip.

Terms of Use

Copyright Public Law 94-553 includes provisions effective January 1, 1978, regarding copyright of audiovisual works and archiving of television news broadcasts.

We do not sell the videos nor license their content. Duplicating or republishing all or a portion of borrowed content may be a violation of copyright laws. Because of the stipulations in copyright legislation, all transactions of the Vanderbilt University Television News Archive are loans from a library.

The loan period is thirty (30) days. If you are unable to retrieve your loan, your loan will be reissued within sixty (60) days of your loan request, at no additional fee. If the original thirty (30) day lending period has expired, an additional thirty (30) days will be extended. If your loan was not retrieved within this sixty (60) day period, VTNA will not reissue your loan.

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