Overview: What is ARTstor?

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Torres Strait Islander people; Mask ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Our community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates.

The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, curators, and students at hundreds of universities, colleges, museums, libraries, and K-12 schools worldwide. We serve users in a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more. For more information, see Subject guides.

ARTstor is available by subscription to nonprofit organizations, and fees help to sustain the ongoing maintenance and development of the collections and software for the Digital Library. Institutions typically enter a site-wide license with ARTstor through their library and access is granted through IP authentication. Site licenses to ARTstor allow unlimited number of simultaneous users to access the Digital Library, both onsite and remotely via username/password. In addition, institutions have access to a dedicated support team and on-line training.

What can you do in ARTstor?

Keyword search
Advanced search
Browse by collection, classification, or geography
Sort search results by date, creator, or title
View images and image data
Zoom in on and pan images
Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive)
Create, save, and share images, image details, and image groups
Organize image groups into folders
Download images to PowerPoint, KeyNote, and ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer (OIV)
Save, email, and print citations for images or image groups
Export citations for images or image groups into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks, Reference Manager, or a text file
Upload and manage personal images and sound files in ARTstor

For more information, see Using ARTstor Key features.

Image credits

Torres Strait Islander people; Mask; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; ARTstor ID# AMICO_METRO_103825482