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Artstor on JSTOR

 

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Artstor is a large collection of digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences from museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates. 

Artstor is now available in its new home on JSTOR! When you search JSTOR, you will find Artstor’s 2+ million licensed images and more than 1,700 additional primary source collections alongside JSTOR’s vast collection of books, journal articles, and research reports. 

Visit the Artstor on JSTOR LibGuide, or jump right in with an image search.

Registering with ARTstor

In order to save content in your JSTOR Workspace, you need a personal account. These accounts are free and automatically pair to your institution's JSTOR account when you create one while authenticated through that institution.   The video below walks you through the steps of creating a JSTOR account.

If you have an existing Artstor account, you already have a JSTOR account. Use the same username and password to log in to JSTOR. Any saved image groups in your existing Artstor account will transfer to your JSTOR Workspace.

ARTstor Help

JSTOR's guide to Artstor on JSTOR brings together the key information you need to begin working with Artstor content in your JSTOR Workspace, a place within JSTOR where you can keep and organize content. 

The information in the guide is organized into these keys areas:

  • Getting started: Logging in and taking a tour of the JSTOR Workspace
  • Searching for content: Exploring and saving images and text you discover on JSTOR
  • Using the Workspace: Organizing content 
  • Sharing content you have curated: Sharing images, and working with shared content

Use the link below to access the guide:

Searching and Saving Images in JSTOR

This brief tutorial demonstrates a basic image search in JSTOR:

You can refine your results by: