What is ARTstor?
Why choose ARTstor?
ARTstor is a digital library of nearly 700,000 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. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged with the visual arts, as well as individuals in field as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research. To learn more, please see our section on Interdisciplinary uses.
Different types of users and institutions will derive different kinds of value from ARTstor:
- 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;
- ARTstor indemnifies users against copyright infringement claims for non-commercial educational uses permitted of the Libary, reassuring librarians about copyright issues;
- 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.
Image credits
Marcus de Bije; Standing Leopard, Autre Debout; British Museum, London, UK; ARTstor ID# BARTSCH_20036; The Illustrated Bartsch
