Artstor

The initiative paired innovative digital image and online technologies with Mellon Foundation's ongoing mission to support higher education, museums, the arts, and art conservation to “bring about a substantial transformation in art-related teaching, learning, and research.”[2] In 2024, the Artstor platform and content became available as part of the JSTOR platform as part of JSTOR's broader multimedia content offerings.

The Artstor Digital Library includes a set of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and teaching purposes.

There are currently more than 1,500 Artstor institutional subscribers in over 45 countries,[4] including colleges and universities, museums, libraries, primary and secondary schools, and other non-profit organizations.

OIV enables instructors to give reliable classroom presentations using both high-resolution Artstor images and local content without being connected to the Internet.

[6] The Artstor Digital Library is accessible through Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Android-powered devices, providing read-only features such as searching and browsing, zooming, and viewing saved image groups.

[9] As part of Artstor's mission of using digital technologies to further education, scholarship, and research worldwide, the organization collaborates with other institutions in the community to offer a number of services, many of them free.

The BWR's goal is to create the system and tools to enable the gathering and widespread dissemination of a large and growing body of built works information.

It will serve scholars, students, educators, librarians, and catalogers from academic and cultural heritage organizations worldwide, and will be openly accessible to the general public.