Happy New Year! ARTstor tips and tools!

Happy new year and welcome back! Lots to catch you up on!

ARTstor has a few new nifty tips and tools. They now have ARTstor mobile accessible from iPhones, iPads, or the iPod Touch. Features of the mobile version include searching images by keyword and viewing in list form with options of tapping to enlarge or rotate, or open info about the image. You can also view saved image groups but the coolest addition is the flashcard view which will let you see the image and then flip if over to see the info about it. You can use this like a flashcard to study for exams! See more about about ARTstor Mobile.

Another feature useful for exam prepping, is printing entire saved image groups. ARTstor will print saved image groups in list form with large thumbnails and the associated info for each image, making it easy to use as a study handout. You can also save this printable handout as a web page by saving as an HTML file from your browser. See it on ARTstor's news.

To see how to create an ARTstor account, save image groups, and do many other useful things as a Texas State student, faculty, or staff, see my other ARTstor posts on Art & Design Inforama or view my tutorial Creating URls and Power Points from ARTstor Image Groups.

If you would like me to give an ARTstor workshop, please email me, Tara, or leave a comment here. I am trying to gauge interest.

More new posts to come!

New ARTstor tutorial!

Hello. I have made a new ARTstor tutorial called Creating URls and Power Points from ARTstor Image Groups. Below is the video embedded from YouTube. There is also a larger Flash version on the Alkek Library website.

Exporting citations for images found in ARTstor to RefWorks bibliographic software.

Another thing that I learned how to do at the ARTstor workshop was to export citation information from ARTstor to RefWorks. RefWorks is a web based program that lets you organize your citations for books, magazines, and works of art into lists or folders which you can eventually use to create your bibliography or reference list for you research papers. I made a video tutorial with the steps of how to do this:

Nifty ARTStor tips

Hello. I wanted to share a few tips that I thought were very interesting from the ARTstor workshop that we had in the library a couple of weeks ago.

• ARTstor has thousands of Quick Time Virtual Reality (QVTR) images of many famous art and architecture sites around the world. The QVTRs let you zoom in as well as go 360 degrees from in front af the work. You can even 180 degress up and down. You will have to try it to see.
  

• You can browse all the QVTRs by doing a basic search for QVTR or you can do an advanced search and use QVTR as one search term and then put the art or artist you are searching for in the next search field, such as Parthenon. When your results come up click on the QVTR link to see it rather than the image.
  

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• Another useful tip I learned was that you can search for images with with the keyword IAP to get "Images for Academic Publishing". You can do an advanced search with "IAP" in one search field and your art, architecture or artist keyword in the next search field. You can use these images for blogs or other published material.
  

• The other cool thing I learned was that you if you are searching for articles about art/artists in JSTOR you can access images from ARTstor that relate to that article with the tab in JSTOR that says Images in ARTstor.

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Hope you enjoyed these useful tips! Have a good one. Tara