WPI now has a subscription to Artstor!
Artstor is JSTOR’s cross-disciplinary collection of over 2 million rights-cleared images from around the world, discoverable alongside JSTOR’s journals, books, and other primary sources on one feature-rich platform.
Composed of approximately 300 curated sub-collections, Artstor supports and enriches study across disciplines, including world events from Magnum Photos, anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, and archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives and, making it a resource for your whole institution. With more than 2 million images (and growing), scholars can easily examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and modern architectural plans from Columbia University.
Artstor is trustworthy, rights-cleared, and contextualized. The images in Artstor are curated from reliable sources and have been rights-cleared for use in education and research — you are free to use them in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.
Unlike results from commercial search engines, the images are accompanied by high-quality metadata from the collection catalogers, curators, institutions, and artists themselves. And, with Artstor’s images integrated alongside JSTOR’s library of full-text and other media, students can more easily situate the content in a historical, critical or cultural context, while educators and researchers can strengthen the depth and quality of their teaching and research, make innovative connections, and spark unexpected discoveries.
**To access Artstor, see; https://libguides.wpi.edu/az/databases
Artstor is provided by the generous support of the Olive Higgins Prouty Fund, a library endowment dedicated to the humanities.
