artstor instruction

ARTSTOR: DIGITAL IMAGE REPOSITORY DATABASE

By: Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez

ULS Instruction Librarian

March 4, 2011

ema37@pitt.edu

A brief history

Began in 2001 with a grant from the Mellon Foundation

Became fully independent in 2003; went live 2004 Started with UCSD’s slide collection

As of current (December 2010/January 2011): 1,250,000 digital images (US); 1,040,000

(Int’l) 1,119 participating US institutions

Including the University of Pittsburgh 215 international institutions

Why not use Google Images?

Higher quality images Institutionally trusted images Promotion of the art database

community Be scholarly, people…

Better, more reliable metadata Ability to cite and export images properly

User-Interface

Images for Academic Publishing (IAP)

Questions?

On-site ARTstor Administrator: Jeffrey A Wisniewski

Email: ask-a-librarian@library.pitt.edu

Phone number: 412.648.7732

Contact Information

Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez ULS Instruction Librarian

ema37@pitt.edu

Thank you