Artstor User Guide

Artstor: An Overview

The Artstor Digital Library is an image database where you can find more than 2 million images from the world's museums, archives, libraries, and scholars for use in research across subject areas. There are many different ways you can search for content in Artstor, including:

• Advanced search
• Keyword and filtered search
• Browsing by geography, classification, or collection

Advanced Searching

Use advanced search to narrow your search right from the start. Some search tips:

• Limit your search to specific data fields such as title, creator, material, culture, and more using the dropdown menu to the right of each search term 
• Search for multiple terms (bombay OR mumbai) (puppies AND kittens) using the dropdown menus to the left of each search term.

Keyword and Filtered Search

Search for a keyword ('peony') and filter your results by geography, classification, and date.

Viewing Images

Click on a thumbnail in your search results to view an image.

Browse

Not sure what you are looking for? Browse images by:

• Geography (Albania, China, United States)
• Classification (photographs, architecture, paintings, science and technology)
• Collection (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Panos Pictures)

Search Tips

• Use quotations ("civil war") to search for exact phrases 
• Geography always refers to a creator's country of birth, except for architecture/built environment images, which are based on geographic location
• Use wildcards to broaden your search
  • Asterisk wildcard: trap* returns results for trap, trapping, trapper, trappist 
  • Question mark wildcard: advis?r returns results for adviser and advisor

Training

Need more help? Check the schedule below and sign up for our webinar "The Expert Search: Advanced Methods for Searching and Discovering Content" to become a master searcher!

www.artstor.org/webinars