ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. The ARTstor Digital Library Charter Collection is:
* A repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related data; * The tools to actively use those images; and * A restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users.
The roots of ARTstor, as well as its name, can be traced to the Foundation's creation of JSTOR, another independent non-profit initiative. JSTOR's goal is to serve the scholarly community by building, making available, and preserving a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. As of April 2004, the JSTOR archive contained over 14 million pages, with almost 400 journals from 230 publishers. The JSTOR archive is available to authorized users from more than 2000 institutions in over 80 countries and is still growing in scope and participation. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide.
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