Interested in contributing images?

Arman; Max Beckmann's Colors; 1987 Participation in ARTstor is increasingly becoming a two-way street. In addition to gaining access to the Digital Library, participating institutions are encouraged to help augment and enhance the content in ARTstor.

ARTstor provides a trusted venue for sharing collections that are created independently of the Digital Library. Institutions and individuals are encouraged to explore with ARTstor the possibility of contributing already digitized collections to the ARTstor Digital Library for use by all ARTstor participating institutions. These contributions are individually negotiated between ARTstor and an institutional liaison or individual contributor.

The Digital Library is itself a product of many such collaborations. While ARTstor has managed the digitization of some of the collections, others embody the strong commitment of individuals and institutions to sharing with the larger community collections they have digitized independently of ARTstor in order to advance their own mission and goals. On some occasions ARTstor has been approached by individuals and institutions who wish above all to share their digital collections with other ARTstor participants. We are happy to work with potential collection development partners to arrive at solutions that advance shared goals.

ARTstor's limited digitization funding is used to help achieve key collection development goals. This may entail providing ARTstor users with a collection they have long depended upon in analog form or filling a conspicuous gap in collections available through ARTstor or in local collections. While we must use our funding in ways that directly advance our collection development programs by addressing what we believe to be the primary needs of ARTstor users, we are able to be more embracing when it comes to contributed collections. Such collections may offer ARTstor users greater depth in a subject area where the ARTstor collections are presently adequate but not outstanding; they may constitute the beginning of collection building in an area ARTstor has not yet targeted for collection development, or they may provide images or data related to a given subject that enhance those presently available in ARTstor.

We are committed to developing collaborative approaches to enhancing the quality of ARTstor's existing collections, images, and data. We look forward to working with individuals and institutions to develop new ways to expand and enhance the ARTstor Digital Library.

For information on ARTstor's current collections, please see our Collection Descriptions & status page.

To express an interest in contributing content to ARTstor, please email collections@artstor.org.

Benefits of contribution:

Fully-integrated collection available to all ARTstor participants
Individually negotiated collection agreements
Restricted access through ARTstor's authentication system
Support for image enhancement and custom metadata development may be available in some instances
Individualized timetable for collection integration
One-time or progressive release of content to the ARTstor Digital Library
Contributor attribution associated with every image file

Contribution guidelines:

Images should be provided as cropped TIFFs if at all possible
Some technical and administrative data will be required, with precise requirements to be determined case-by-case
Some descriptive metadata, including a unique identifier linking data to images, will be required, with precise requirements to be determined case-by-case

Contribution requirements:

Contributed images and collections should advance ARTstor's ability to serve the pedagogical and scholarly needs of our audiences
Collections must be available for the uses permitted under the ARTstor Terms and Conditions of Use
An agreement must be signed before content is made available through the ARTstor Digital Library
All contributed collections must go through a copyright due diligence review by ARTstor staff before they are released as part of the ARTstor Digital Library

Interested in contributing images?

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