This document provides information about using the Artstor digital library and image database. It includes: - Over 1.2 million images that can be zoomed in on, printed, saved, and used to create image groups. - The ability to create and manage folders to organize images and send them to presentations. - Access for instructors to create shared folders and add their own images and notes. - Instructions for saving/downloading images, citing them properly, and accessing folders created by professors.

3.  Tutorials:
http://www.youtube.com/user/artstor
 Blog: http://artstor.wordpress.com
 FAQ: http://www.artstor.org/what-is-
artstor/w-html/faqs.shtml
 Help Page: http://help.artstor.org
 Newsletters: http://www.artstor.org/news

4. • Over 1.2 million images (incl. Mason Slide Library—over 13,000)
• Save or Print
• Zoom-able Images
• Save Image Groups
• Download Images
OR Details
• Email Citation Info
• PowerPoint

5.  Creating & Managing Folders
 Send images & notes to PPT or OIV
 Interdisciplinary topics
 Instructor Privileges
 Created shared folders
 Add notes to folder
 Add own images
 Zooming—maintain high quality & save details
 Images for Academic Publishing (IAP)

6. • Save/download images
• Create folders
• Access folders created by professors
• Email citation details
• Remote access bypassing library log-in

8. Pros
 High-resolution images
 Allows zooming
 Save details of images
 Accurate title/artist/date/colors
Cons
 Back files not upgraded to higher resolution
 Copyright restrictions (ex: Picasso)
 Not comprehensive coverage from museums
(ex: only 715 images in NGA collection)

10.  Aga Khan Visual Archive (MIT): over
120,000 images of architecture, urbanism & the built
environment from Islamic countries
 Southern Sudan Images (Pitt Rivers
Museum): More than 1,300 artifacts and 5,000
photographs about the cultural and visual history of
the region.
 NASA Images : Public access to images,
videos, and audio in a single, searchable
resource.

13.  Over 3.6 billion images
 Different image sources
 Library of Congress
 New York Public Library
 No vetting process

15. 1. Where is the image coming from?
 Book or article
 Museum
 Online database or website

16. 2. Citations for a bibliography OR
footnotes/endnotes OR a caption?
3. What style are you using? MLA,
Chicago, APA?

17.  Claudia Holland, Copyright Officer, JCL
 Phone: 993-2544
 Email: chollan3@gmu.edu
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 Types of Images:
 Royalty-free
 Creative Commons
 Academic Purposes (ARTstor & IAP for publishing)
 Museums: can purchase rights to use images
 Using images online brings different issues
 Dissertations/Theses—Fair Use BUT check & cite

18. STATEMENT ON FAIR USE OF IMAGES FOR TEACHING,
RESEARCH & STUDY
http://www.vraweb.org/organization/pdf/VRAFairUseGuidelinesFinal.pdf
 Historically, graduate students have not obtained
permissions.
 However, as theses have been posted to online
repositories, owners/operators have often required that
students obtain all copyright permissions (as a way of
managing their own risks).
 As a result, students are required to address copyright
issues to obtain their academic degrees.
 VRA Statement argues for Fair Use regarding the inclusion
of images in dissertations & theses.

19. Visual literacy = A set of abilities that
enables an individual to effectively find,
interpret, evaluate, use, and create
images and visual media. “Visual literacy competency standards
for higher education.” Association
of College & Research Libraries, 2011.
http://www.ala.org/acrl/files/standards/vis
ualliteracy.pdf .

20. The Farm by Joan
Miró (1921-22)
 Design elements:
 Color/Color theory
 Detailed realism
combined with Cubist
elements
 Art & Ecology
 Artists as keen observers
of natural world
 Paintings become
resource for studying
nature
(National Gallery of Art Classroom for Teachers & Students)

21.  Highlight features as registered user
 Search examples
 Working with Image Groups/Folders
 QUESTIONS??