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ARTstor Expands Accessibility to Images for AcademicPublishingIn March 2007, ARTstor and The Metropolitan Museum of Artbegan a new collaboration, Images for Academic Publishing(IAP) that allowed scholars at ARTstor participatinginstitutions to download and use, free of charge,high-resolution digital images for academic publications.Initially, nearly 1,700 images representative of therenowned Metropolitan Museum's encyclopedic collectionbecame available through the ARTstor interface to users atall ARTstor participating institutions.Access to IAP is now being extended to unaffiliatedscholars, including those at institutions which do notlicense ARTstor. Scholars at participating ARTstorinstitutions are able to access these images through theARTstor Digital Library. All other scholars can contactARTstor or The Metropolitan Museum to be registered forfree access to IAP.Additional images will be added to IAP by The MetropolitanMuseum of Art later this year and ARTstor is working withother museums and organizations to expand the contentavailable through IAP.ARTstor, a digital image library, was created in 2001 as anon-profit initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.It is an independent non-profit organization dedicated toserving education and scholarship in the arts andhumanities. The more than 750 non-profit institutionscurrently participating in ARTstor are located in NorthAmerica, Australia/New Zealand, the United Kingdom, andcontinental Europe.The Metropolitan Museum of Art – founded in 1870with a mission to collect, preserve, and display works ofart spanning 5,000 years of world culture from every partof the globe, and to educate the public about art –is the most comprehensive art museum in the WesternHemisphere with a collection now including more than twomillion works of art.