~ The ARTstor Collections Now Searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™ for Mutual Customers~

IPSWICH, Mass. — June 9, 2011— The ARTstor Digital Library will be searchable via EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) allowing mutual customers to use EDS to explore even more of a library’s collection. The agreement between ARTstor and EBSCO increases the value to ARTstor subscribers using EDS since end users will be able to search ARTstor Digital Library collections—over one million images—alongside their library’s entire print and electronic collection.

The ARTstor Digital Library serves as a curated, aggregated, and reliable online image resource that supports non-commercial educational use of images for research, teaching, and learning. The resource comprises hundreds of collections from museums, photo archives, photographers, scholars, artists, artists’ estates, and libraries. Today, ARTstor serves more than 1,300 institutions in 42 countries.

As an innovative teaching and learning online workspace, ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences. The ARTstor Digital Library also includes a suite of software tools for searching, organizing, and presenting images for research and pedagogical purposes. Educators, scholars, curators, librarians, and students can teach and study with a broad range of image collections for a variety of disciplines, including:

• African and African-American Studies
• American Studies
• Anthropology
• Architecture and the Built Environment
• Asian Studies
• Classical Studies
• Design
• Decorative Arts
• Fashion and Costume
• History Of Medicine and Natural Science
• Languages and Literature
• Latin American Studies
• Maps And Geography
• Medieval Studies
• Middle Eastern Studies
• Music History
• Native American Studies
• Photography
• Renaissance Studies
• Religious Studies
• Theater and Dance
• Women's Studies

ARTstor joins a long list of publishers and other content partners who are taking part in EDS to bring more visibility to their content including: British Library, Baker & Taylor, NewsBank, Readex, LexisNexis, Alexander Street Press, Oxford University Press, American Psychological Association, ABC-CLIO, ingentaconnect, Government Printing Office, ECONIS, Mergent Inc., arXiv, Credo Reference, IGI Global, World Book, Accessible Archives and the Manuscriptorium. In addition, Web of Science and H.W. Wilson provide access for mutual customers.

EBSCO Discovery Service creates a unified, customized index of an institution’s information resources, and an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of that content from a single search box—searching made even more powerful because of the quality of metadata and depth and breadth of coverage.

EBSCO Discovery Service is quickly becoming the discovery selection for many libraries (www.ebscohost.com/discovery/eds-news), and an obvious partner for content providers. Because the service builds on the foundation provided by the EBSCOhost platform, libraries gain a full user experience for discovering their collections/OPAC—which is not typical in the discovery space. Further still, in the many universities and other libraries where EBSCOhost is the most-used platform for premium research, users are not asked to change their pathways or habits for searching. There’s simply more to discover on the familiar EBSCOhost platform, and the same can be said for library administrators who can leverage their previous work with EBSCOadmin.

About ARTstor
ARTstor (www.artstor.org) is an independent nonprofit organization with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching, and learning in the arts and associated fields.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost, the world’s premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and e-books. The company provides more than 300 databases and nearly 300,000 e-books. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), which provides institutions with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Manager
EBSCO Publishing
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com