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March 23, 2007
Last fall, when the ARTstor database first became available to University of Oregon students, faculty, and researchers, it granted them access to more than 500,000 visual images and related catalog data. This already expansive resource just got bigger and better.
In a new initiative designed to assist scholars with teaching, study, and the publication of academic works, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will use ARTstor to distribute, free of charge, high-resolution digital images from its collection for use in academic publications, according to a news release.
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art has long sought to address the significant challenges that scholars confront in seeking to secure and license images of objects from the Museum's collections," states Metropolitan Museum Director Philippe de Montebello in making the announcement. "We hope, through this collaboration, to play a pioneering role in addressing one of the profound challenges facing scholars in art history, and scholarly publishing, today."
"This initiative represents a major change in the attitude of museums in regards to the publishing and scholarly use of images of art pieces from their collections," says Cara List, a librarian in the AAA Library.
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