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ACCESS
As a member of NYIT you are provided with free access to ARTstor. Follow this link to go to the ARTstor website. Click on the "Search and Browse for Images" link in the lower left hand corner of the screen to enter the ARTstor Digital Library.

ABOUT ARTSTOR
ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:

• A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data;
• The tools to actively use those images; and
• A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.

ARTSTOR COLLECTIONS
The ARTstor Charter Collection currently contains approximately 300,000 images; by 2006 it is expected to contain 500,000. The Charter Collection documents artistic traditions across many times and cultures and embraces architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, and design as well as many other forms of visual culture.

• The Image Gallery. A deep and broad collection of images of world visual art and culture.
• The Art History Survey Collection. Key monuments of world art defined by a concordance of ten standard art history survey texts.
• The Carnegie Arts of the United States Collection. A widely used collection of images documenting the history of American art, architecture, visual and material culture.
• The Huntington Archive of Asian Art. A broad photographic overview of the art of Asia from 3000 B.C. through the present.
• The Illustrated Bartsch. A collection derived from the standard art reference publication, The Illustrated Bartsch, which contains Old Master European prints from the 15th to 19th Centuries.
• The Mellon International Dunhuang Archive. High resolution images, produced digitally, of wall paintings and sculpture from the Buddhist cave shrines in Dunhuang, China, a key site on the ancient Silk Route.
• The MoMA Architecture and Design Collection. A comprehensive collection of digital images representing the collections of the Department of Architecture and Design of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

• Classroom Instruction and Related Activities (such as handouts, presentations, research, and student assignments).
• Display or performance as part of a noncommercial scholarly or educational presentation (such as in seminars, classes, lectures, conferences, exhibits, workshops, or similar noncommercial educational and scholarly activities).
• Student or faculty portfolios, term papers, theses, and dissertations, provided that you follow the access restrictions stated on the previous page.
• Restricted course websites for review and study purposes, provided that these sites are not publicly accessible on the web, but rather access-restricted and password-protected, so that only Authorized Users can access the site.

• Any commercial use and any use that is not educational or scholarly (such as reproductions in alumni materials, in advertisements, or commercial materials, or making content available to someone else for commercial uses).
• Posting content on an unrestricted website or in a publication made available on the world wide web without access restrictions (such as posting an ARTstor image on a personal or course website that is not password-protected and access-restricted, or posting a dissertation or other materials containing ARTstor content on a website that is not password-protected and access-restricted).
• Reproducing content in a publication that is distributed without access restrictions to the public, or providing it to someone else who makes it available to the public (such as providing content to a scholarly or commercial press for publication without obtaining necessary permissions from all copyright owners).

SHOULD I REGISTER FOR ARTSTOR?
Features available to registered users that are specifically designed to
enhance your ARTstor experience include:

• Create your own personal Image Groups.
  Image Groups are collections of images that can be saved for future review or
  presentation. Image Groups can be easily created by selecting thumbnails of
  images found through browsing or searching the ARTstor Digital Library.
• Collaborate with other ARTstor users by sharing Image Groups.
  Image Groups can be created in public or private folders. Public folders can be
  shared for collaboration and review by other ARTstor users.
• Create presentations.
  ARTstor offers online and offline presentation tools with which you can project
  and view your ARTstor Image Groups. You can even add your own personal images
  to an offline presentation.
• Attach personal notes and comments to images.
  Notes and comments can be private or public for sharing with other ARTstor
  users. Notes and comments are also searchable through ARTstor.
• Create links to ARTstor images and Image Groups for access through course
  reserves and other websites.
  ARTstor can generate web addresses (URLs) that will allow other ARTstor users
  to jump directly into an Image Group you've created, or an image that you want
  to highlight.
  

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Please take note of the following technical recommendations in order to prepare your computer for using ARTstor.

     Software

• Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Mac OSX, or Linux
• Browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and above or Netscape 6.2 and above
• Flash Player: Version 6 or above
• Java: Sun Version 1.3 or above
• Pop-up blocking software: Must be disabled
• Cookies: Must be enabled

• Internet Connection: 56K dial-up, Lan 100MB+, DSL, ISDN, or Cable
• Monitor resolution: 1024x768 or higher
• Memory: 128 MB or higher