In March 2007, ARTstor and The Metropolitan Museum of Art began a new collaboration, Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) that allowed scholars at ARTstor participating institutions to download - free of charge -- high-resolution digital images for use in academic publications. This service is now being extended to all scholars - including those whose institutions do not license ARTstor -- who need these images exclusively for publication in scholarly works. Scholars at participating ARTstor institutions are able to access these images through the ARTstor Digital Library. All other scholars can contact ARTstor or The Metropolitan Museum to be registered for access to IAP if they need a specific image for a scholarly publication. For information on terms and conditions: http://www.artstor.org/info/tools/tools_iap.jsp
Nearly 1,700 images representative of the renowned Metropolitan Museum's encyclopedic collection became available through IAP. Additional images will be added to IAP by The Metropolitan Museum of Art later this year and ARTstor is working with other museums and organizations to expand the content available through IAP.
ARTstor, a digital image library, was created in 2001 as a non-profit initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. It is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to serving education and scholarship in the arts and humanities. The more than 750 non-profit institutions currently participating in ARTstor are located in North America, Australia/New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art - founded in 1870 with a mission to collect, preserve, and display works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture from every part of the globe, and to educate the public about art - is the most comprehensive art museum in the Western Hemisphere with a collection now including more than two million works of art.
Nancy Allen
Director of Museum Relations
ARTstor
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New York, NY 10021
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