Why choose ARTstor?

ARTstor is a digital library of more than one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts.

• Researchers benefit from large aggregated library of primary materials for scholarly work;
• Teaching faculty find many of the images they need for instruction and curricular support in the Digital Library, as well as features and tools that allow faculty to add their own images for use alongside ARTstor images;
• Students use ARTstor to discover images relevant to their learning, to access images their teachers have used to create lectures and assignments, and to actively use those images outside of the classroom;
• Librarians are reassured by ARTstor's indemnification of users against copyright infringement claims for non-commercial educational uses permitted of the Library;
• Museums derive value from ARTstor both by contributing their own content and also by utilizing its collections and tools for their own research, educational, and presentation needs;
• Artists and photographers gain greater exposure from sharing images of their works for use in teaching curricula.

• Why choose ARTstor?
• Who can access ARTstor?
• Becoming a participating institution
• Current participating institutions
• Trial access
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