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About ARTstor

ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:

  • A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data;
  • The tools to actively use those images; and
  • A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

With ARTstor, you will be able to search for images online, save groups of images for future use, and create digital image presentations.

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Technical Requirements

Please take note of the following software and hardware requirements in order to prepare your computer for using ARTstor.

System Requirements


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Resources for Faculty

 
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Personal Collections

For Instructors-Level Users Only

Personal Collections is ARTstor's tool for allowing faculty to integrate their own personal images with those in the ARTstor Digital Library. Faculty may also upload audio files to their ARTstor Personal Collections.

For more information, see Personal Collections.


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Offline Image Viewer (OIV)

For Instructors-Level Users Only

Current version: OIV 3.1.1 (Mac and Windows)

The Offline Image Viewer is ARTstor's tool for:
1. Giving reliable, Internet-independent classroom presentations
2. Creating presentations of personal/institutional images with or without ARTstor images

For more information, see OIV Help. 

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Permitted Uses

The ARTstor Digital Library is licensed to non-profit institutions. Individuals using the ARTstor Digital Library are subject to Terms & Conditions of Use appearing on the ARTstor website. This summary is intended to help you understand key provisions in the Terms & Conditions of Use.


Examples of Permitted Uses

  • Classroom Instruction and Related Activities (such as handouts, presentations, research, and student assignments).
  • Display or performance as part of a noncommercial scholarly or educational presentation (such as in seminars, classes, lectures, conferences, exhibits, workshops, or similar noncommercial educational and scholarly activities).
  • Student or faculty portfolios, term papers, theses, and dissertations, provided that you restrict access to only this institution; OR audience members at a scholarly or educational presentation, lecture, class, or similar activity that you are conducting (via displays and print hand outs only); OR if you are within the US only limited numbers of scholars, researchers, or curators for purposes of collaboration, comment or similar educational or scholarly use, if such use and distribution conforms to the customary and usual practice in the field.
  • Restricted course websites for review and study purposes, provided that these sites are not publicly accessible on the web, but rather access-restricted and password-protected, so that only Authorized Users can access the site.

 

Examples of Prohibited Uses

  • Any commercial use and any use that is not educational or scholarly (such as reproductions in alumni materials, in advertisements, or commercial materials, or making content available to someone else for commercial uses).
  • Posting content on an unrestricted website or in a publication made available on the world wide web without access restrictions (such as posting an ARTstor image on a personal or course website that is not password-protected and access-restricted, or posting a dissertation or other materials containing ARTstor content on a website that is not password-protected and access-restricted).
  • Reproducing content in a publication that is distributed without access restrictions to the public, or providing it to someone else who makes it available to the public (such as providing content to a scholarly or commercial press for publication without obtaining necessary permissions from all copyright owners).

 
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Get Help

 

For assistance with ARTstor or to request a group training session, contact:

Lynn Mayo
Reference Librarian
Burke Library
315-859-4746

 
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