Sep 9, 2009

Database highlight: 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 Digital Library serves users in the arts, history, architecture and other disciplines (e.g. American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, etc). The collection is for 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.

In ARTstor you can:
  • Browse content by collection, classification, or geography
  • Search content by keyword or advanced search terms (e.g., date and geographic origin)
  • Sort search results by date, creator, or title
  • View images and image data
  • Zoom in on and pan images for greater detail
  • Print and save images and related data to other hardware (e.g. CD, memory stick, hard drive)
  • and more

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