Canvas and Library Resources

Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media. All content is rights-cleared for education and research — you are free to use it in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.

Artstor on Jstor: working with images 

Click on a thumbnail in your search results to view an image. On the detail page you can zoom and pan, view the image full screen, and compare it with other images.

You can share the image group you used to create your PowerPoint with your students easily by opening your image group and going to Share > Generate image group link. You can paste this link in emails or in your Canvas course. Students can then view the image group and study them online, or download them to make flashcards.

Working with Image Groups

Any registered user can create groups of images, a good way to store images by category for subsequent use. You can retrieve a group at a later time for personal use or to present the images live to an audience. The full functionality of viewing the images (e.g., the ability to zoom) is retained.

To place selected image(s) in a folder, you must be logged in. You can then pull down the Organize menu and choose either

1. Save selections to new image group
2. Save selections to existing image group

In you pick the first option, you will create a new folder. If the second option, you will choose among your existing folders.

You cannot create a new image group before having selected images. This point was not intuitive to the Fine Arts Librarian!

In order to retrieve image groups, go to Browse on the pulldown menu and select "Image Groups" and then click on the desired image group.

More information on Managing Groups

Workspace allows you to save results from JSTOR. You can create folders to organize these results and share folders with others—e.g., students in a class. To use Workspace you must have a personal account with JSTOR.

• Workspace on JSTOR

  Extensive instructions on using Workspace

• Register for a personal account in JSTOR

• Benefits of a personal account in JSTOR

As a registered user with content in Workspace, you can export items as a reference list (PDF), images to PowerPoint, and images as a compressed (ZIP) file.

• Instructions on exporting

• Export to PDF

• Export to PowerPoint

• Export to ZIP

Downloading a group of images directly into PowerPoint is easy:

1. To download anything from Artstor you must first log in to your registered account. 
2. Create a group of images: 

• Search for the images you need
• Open the detail page for an image. Click the [+] button on the right to save the image to a group. Enter a name for your image group (“AH101 Final Presentation”), create one or more tags (for example “Presentations” or “AH101”), select your sharing permissions (private or everyone at your institution--you likely want to select private) and click save.
• Search for additional images you’d like to include, and add them to the same image group.
• Use the “reorder” button to drag and drop the images into the order needed for your presentation.

3. Download your group:

• Open your group by going to the home page and opening “groups” under the browse menu, then selecting your group. Depending on the privacy settings you selected it will be saved under either the “private” or “institutional” heading.
• Click “download” just above the image thumbnails on the left. You can download as a PowerPoint presentation or a .zip file.

PowerPoints created in Artstor include one image per slide with the image data in the notes field. Clicking on an image when the PowerPoint is in presentation mode will open the image's detail page at library.artstor.org, allowing you to zoom and show details of the image.

You can share a link to the images in your presentation by opening the presentation, and going to Share > Generate image group link.

Note: Each user can only download 150 images at a time and no more than 2000 images in a 120-day period.

More information on Artstor and PowerPoint