Thursday, January 30, 2014

2013 in review: Artstor collections and technology improvements






Artstor
Happy New Year and welcome to the start of the spring 2014 semester! As students and faculty are returning to campus we'd like to recap some of the improvements we made to the Artstor Digital Library in 2013.


Collections summary 
Thanks to our contributors and the support of our subscribing institutions, 2013 proved to be yet another fruitful year for the Artstor Digital Library. In the past twelve months we launched approximately 112,500 new images from 22 new collections and expanded the content in 12 existing collections, bringing our total close to 1.7 million images in the United States and 1.4 million internationally.

Among the highlights, we now make available images from the Courtauld Gallery, the World Monuments Fund, the National Gallery, London, Condé Nast (fashion photography and 
New Yorkercartoons), Rijksmuseum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Romare Bearden Foundation, Lukas: Art in Flanders, the Berlin State Museums, and Denmark's Statens Museum for Kunst.

We also reached agreements for 17 new or expanded collections last year from institutions such as the Art Gallery of Ontario, the American Museum of Natural History, the Mattress Factory, the Fashion Institute of Technology, and the Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum.


These collections are making an impact at more than 1,500 institutions in 48 countries: In 2013, our users performed approximately 9 million searches, viewed more than 10 million individual images, and downloaded more than 1.6 million images. You can see the full list of new and expanded collections and agreements 
here.

Resources

New to the Digital Library or would like to get a refresher? Get started with User Services! Learn how to use Artstor's many features and tools with our free instructional webinars here. In a hurry? Watch our short instructional videos onArtstor's YouTube channel. And as always, you can get help at userservices@artstor.org.

We look forward to continue serving your educational and research needs in 2014!


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