Finding and legally using images for scholarly publications can be a time-consuming and expensive process. ARTstor's General Counsel, Gretchen Wagner, is working tirelessly to change this and expresses her views in an Educause Review article entitled "Sharing Visual Arts Images for Educational Use: Finding A New Angle of Repose at
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/SharingVisualArtsImagesfo/45225
ARTstor's creative thinking on this front has resulted in an exciting initiative called Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) which seeks to facilitate scholarship by reducing the costs and hassles associated with images for scholarly publications.
There are now more than 3,500 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art available through ARTstor's free scholarly publishing service. This fall a new collection of 3,900 images from Bryn Mawr College’s Mellink archive of Ancient Near Eastern art and archaeology will also be available through IAP.
Image providers have supplied publication-quality images and agreed to make them available free-of-charge for use in scholarly publications. As a service to the community, ARTstor has developed the software to deliver these publication-quality images to users.
It is available to all scholars, including those at institutions that do not license ARTstor. For more information, see
http://www.artstor.org/what-is-artstor/w-html/services-publishing.shtml |