Research Guides: Picture That: A Tutorial for Finding and Using Digital Images in the Humanities: Artstor

Artstor

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ARTstor is a digital library more than 1.5 million 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.
The ARTstor Digital Library is used by educators, scholars, and students at a variety of institutions including universities, colleges, museums, public libraries, and K-12 schools. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts. This includes historians of art and architecture and others engaged in the visual arts, as well as individuals in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies, all of whom find the images in ARTstor to be relevant to their teaching and research.

Tutorials:
Using ARTstor
Training videos on YouTube

Abbreviation: artstor
Vendor: ARTstor
Subjects: Archaeology, Architecture, Art Education, Art History, Art Therapy, Classics, Cultural Heritage, Interior Design, Museum Studies, Studio Art
Type: Images

ARTstor Support
Artstor's website includes an excellent quick start guide, troubleshooting advice, as well as a section on what's new.
ARTstor Tutorials
ARTstor's official YouTube channel.

Artstor is one of the few databases at FSU where you must create an account. This process is free, fast, and it gives you full access to all Artstor capabilities such as saving and downloading images.

Summer 2022 update: Artstor is slowly migrating its image database into JSTOR and you can now also search for images in JSTOR in addition to their journal offerings. This recent webinar from JSTOR walks through this new feature, which will ultimately replace Artstor in the near future.

Catalog Tips and Tricks for Artstor

AND, OR, NOT

When using the Advanced Search in Artstor you can use Boolean logic to refine your combination of search terms, just like you would when searching for articles or books in another database or library catalog.

Boolean Logic infographic.

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