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ARTstor Digital Library

Access Via: Library Subscription - ARTstor Digital Library Website from the Vann Library's Homepage
System Requirements:

System Requirements

The following setting are recommended in order to access the ARTstor Digital Library and for the use of the Offline Image Viewer (OIV) presentation software.

  • high-speed Internet connection (not a dial-up connection)

  • JAVA version 1.3+ installed

  • My browser has Flash Player  version 6.0+.
  • All types of pop-up blocker are disabled or set to allow pop-up windows from www.artstor.org.
  • Cookies are enabled.
  • My monitor resolution is set at 1024 x 768 pixels.
  • My screen colors are set at True Color (32 bit).

Web Site Compatibility

PC
Operating Systems: Windows 2000+
Browsers: Microsoft IE 6.0+, FireFox 1.0+, PWB 2.05+

Macintosh
Operating Systems: OS 10.2 (Jaguar) +
Browsers:Safari 1.2+, Natscape 6.0+, FireFox 1.0+

Offline Image Viewer (OIV) compatibility

PC
Memory: 512MD (required), 1GB (recommended)
Processor Speed: 1.5 GHz (required), 3GHz (recommended)
Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows XP

Macintosh
Memory: 256MD (required), 1GB (recommended)
Processor Speed: 800 MHz (required), 1.2GHz (recommended)
Operating System: OS 10.3, OS 10.4

 
Off-Campus Password: From the Off-Campus Database Menu
Requires USF OneCard, 14-digit Barcode on back
Contains Full-Text: Yes (for many, but not all articles)
Also includes abstracts, and indexing.
Peer Reviewed: Not Applicable
Subject Areas:

Art, history, cultural studies, design, architecture
Description:

ARTstor is a non-profit organization created by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. As part of its ongoing effort to become a community resource, ARTstor is developing a rich digital library that will offer coherent collections of art images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. The ARTstor Library's initial content includes approximately 500,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource will be made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.
© 2007 ARTstor, Inc.

Please note that the most current and detailed information for any database can be found by going directly to the database itself. More information can usually be found in the "ABOUT" or "HELP" sections of most databases. Please contact the library directly (library@sf.edu or 260-399-7700 x.6065) if you have any questions or concerns as you use any of the USF Vann library resources.

Last Updated 8/20/07