How To Use ARTSTOR  

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.

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