5 August 2024
The JSTOR platform is now the official home for the complete Artstor Digital Library, an unmatched collection of rights-cleared images and media for use in teaching and research. Comprised of over 2 million images, videos, panoramas, and audio files contributed by museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations around the world, the collection is now known as “Artstor on JSTOR,” signaling the collection’s deep integration with the more than 2,800 journals, 100,000 books, 50,000 research reports, and robust primary source collections accessible on JSTOR.
Beyond the Artstor Digital Library, JSTOR also supports Artstor’s two other core services.
- Institutions can publish images and other media to JSTOR for their own users or for public access through JSTOR Forum.
- Faculty and other users can save, organize, upload, annotate, and export collections using JSTOR Workspace, which expands on Artstor Image Groups to support both text and images.
JSTOR has also been optimized for working with images, offering features such as image-only and cross-content searching, options for comparing and presenting images, and more.
“Integrating two leading academic nonprofit resources—Artstor and JSTOR—involved regular collaboration with librarians, educators, and researchers,” said Peter Vlahakis, Senior Product Manager. “The goal has been to work with our community to create a platform experience that supports the critical ways that scholars work with images today, particularly research and instructional uses in Art, Architecture, and Art History, while simultaneously creating new ways for researchers in all disciplines and of all levels to discover, understand, and use images contextually with primary and secondary sources.”
In a recent review of Artstor on JSTOR in the ARLIS/NA Multimedia and Technology Review, Chelsea Page, Digital Asset Manager at the Center for Creative Leadership, writes, “The new platform is user friendly and intuitive to learn. Simplifying collections into one central location is a benefit to users who can now search academic, primary, and image resources in one platform. The new platform specifically addresses the needs of research and academic audiences with wider breadth to go beyond the normal scope of database searching. The new Artstor experience on JSTOR remains a resource for anyone interested in exploring art collections across boundaries.”