artstor digital images

What is ARTstor?
ARTstor is a library of digital images of works of art and other cultural materials, descriptive information about the works recorded in these images, and tools to work with the images and their documentation. ARTstor currently includes about 300,00 digital images covering art, architecture, and archaeology from a wide range of cultures and time periods, with strengths in European, American and Asian cultures.

Who can use ARTstor at Smith?
Access to the ARTstor library is available throughout the Smith campus. Only members of the Smith community (including Five College students currently enrolled in a course at Smith) may register for access to the full range of ARTstor tools. This includes the ability to create and save image groups and use of the Off-line Image Viewer (OIV). All Five Colleges are members of ARTstor, so Five College students, faculty, and staff have access to the full range of ARTstor tools at their home institutions. If you are unaffiliated with the Five Colleges you are welcome to search and browse the ARTstor collections.

How to access ARTstor from the Smith College Campus
- Go to the ARTstor website
- Click on Search and browse for images
- If you haven't registered as a Smith ARTstor user, click on Register. To make full use of ARTstor, you must register. Registration allow you to create and save image groups, print and download high resolution images to the Off-line Image Viewer (OIV).
- If you have registered, click on Login and type in your email address and password.

How to Install the Off-line Image Viewer (OIV) on your computer
- You must be a registered user to download the OIV
- You must be on the Smith Campus to download the OIV. The OIV is not currenlty available to Smith users off-campus. The OIV is available on workstations in the Imaging Center.
- Logon to ARTstor
- Click on Tools
- Click on Offline Image Viewer Download
- Read terms and conditions
- Click Open
- Follow the steps in the "Installanywhere" wizard

How to does ARTstor work if I'm at another one of the 5-Colleges?
Although all Five Colleges are members of ARTstor, the memberships are not consortial. So, for example, faculty teaching at Smith and Mount Holyoke will need separate accounts on each campus and must register twice. Faculty and students will not be able to see image groups created at Smith at the other colleges.

How to use ARTstor in the classroom
-Faculty must register for "Instructor Privileges" to be able to create "Course Folders." Contact Jon Cartledge at (x4568) to set up an authorization code and password for instructor privileges.
- Contact Jon Cartledge at the Imaging Center, (x4568) to schedule a brief orientation on classroom teaching with the ARTstor tools.
- Once you have registered for instructor privileges:
- Go to the "Utilities" menu on the toolbar and select "Instructor Privileges Manager."
- Enter your authorization code and password. A message indicating that you have been granted instructor privileges will appear, providing access to additional administrative tools under the "Utilities" menu.

How does ARTstor work with INSIGHT?
Insight is the primary teaching tool for images at Smith. Currently the ARTstor images are not accessible or useable in Insight. The OIV does offer limited functionality for combining images from ARTstor and Insight. Please Contact Jolene de Verges (x4568) in the Imaging Center for assistance using this option.

Need Help?
Online help - a Quick Start Guide, FAQ, and Help Index - is available from the top menu bar of ARTstor.