ARTstor
Rutgers Restricted
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Best used with Internet Explorer 7+, Mozilla 2+, and Safari 2+
Plugins required
Description
ARTstor is a digital image library of approximately 700,000 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. A non-profit organization funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, ARTstor digitizes and provides high-quality images from numerous museums, academic institutions, and private foundations.
Help
If you are accessing ARTstor remotely, you will be prompted to enter your ARTstor account information. If you do not yet have an ARTstor account, you will first need to access ARTstor from within the Rutgers on-campus network in order to create an account.
Flash Player (version 6.0 +) must be configured to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org
Other requirements:
Java version 1.3+
Monitor resolution is set at 1024 x 768 pixels or better
Screen colors are set to True Color (32 bit) or better
From the opening screen, click on HELP, on the top right-hand side of the screen, to get additional information about using the database.
Dates covered
Prehistoric times to the present day.
Updating frequency
Ongoing.
Sources
Images are provided by numerous museums, academic institutions, and private foundations. A list of contributors can be found here.
Type of coverage
Image Database with image citations.
Print counterpart or
related resources
None.
Producer/content provider
Various.
Vendor/electronic presentation provider
ARTstor Inc.
Core Subject(s)
Supplementary Subject(s)