WISER courses in week 4

Bodleian Libraries will be running the following workshops during week 4:       ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning [Tuesday 15 May 14:00-16:00] – This workshops covers two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University – ARTstor and Bridgeman Education – geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science [...]

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National Gallery of Art offering open access images

The National Gallery of Art has launched NGA Images at http://images.nga.gov.  NGA Images is a digital image repository of National Gallery of Art collections, which allows users to search, browse, share, and download images believed to be in the public domain.  Many of the open access images have been digitized with the generous support of [...]

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New in ARTstor: images of medieval churches

ARTstor has added a new image collection which might be of interest to medievalists historians: Via Lucis  Collection: “ARTstor and Via Lucis have released more than 1,300 high-resolution images of medieval Christian churches in France and Spain by photographers Dennis Aubrey and PJ McKey in the Digital Library. The collection primarily features interior architecture, especially [...]

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ARTstor news: Now available: Special collections from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Today’s ARTstor news: “ARTstor Digital Library has released nearly 4,000 images from a variety of special collections from the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The collection in ARTstor consists of images digitized from visual materials held in the University Library, which are relevant to a variety of fields, including Irish political [...]

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ARTstor / Warburg Inst. Library: 10K images of Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations

ARTstor has collaborated with the Warburg Institute Library to share more than 10,000 images of Renaissance and Baroque book illustrations selected from the rare book collection in the Digital Library. Warburg collection in ARTstor  

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New online collection tells story of British women’s struggle for the vote

A unique collection relating to British women’s fight for the vote 100 years ago has been revealed online yesterday through the Visual Arts Data Service (VADS). The digitised material represents a selection of the vast collections housed at the Women’s Library at London Metropolitan University, and includes posters, photographs, postcards, badges, and other memorabilia relating [...]

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ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning

ARTstor and Bridgeman: Using images in teaching and learning Wednesday 18 May 9.15-11.15 The course examines two major digital image collections subscribed to by the University, ARTstor and Bridgeman Education, geared to research and teaching in the humanities, history of science and medicine, and social sciences. Viewing, presenting and managing images are also covered. OUCS [...]

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ArtSTOR mobile arrived

All 1,000,000+ images from the ARTstor Digital Library are now accessible through iPad, iPhone, and the iPod Touch to registered ARTstor users. ARTstor Mobile provides read-only features such as searching, browsing, zooming, and viewing saved image groups. Also try the new Flashcard View, which allows you to test your knowledge by viewing the image without [...]

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ArtStor subject guides

ArtSTOR now has useful subject guides, esp. Medieval Studies Renaissance Studies African & African-American Studies, American Studies Native American Studies Latin American Studies History of Science & Medicine and many more. This should help users make better use of the extensive collections of images!

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More content on John Johnson Collection for printed ephemera

More images Facsimile images of more than 13,700 items have been added to the John Johnson Collection, bringing the total number of scanned items to 62,421 (a total of 167,356 images), including more than 19,700 pieces of theatrical and non-theatrical ephemera from the Nineteenth-Century Entertainment category and more than 9,500 items from the Booktrade category. [...]

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