ARTstor is a non-profit initiative created by the Mellon Foundation in 2001, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields. ARTstor is developing a rich - and continuously growing - digital library that offers coherent collections of images and descriptive information as well as the software tools to enable active use of the collections. ARTstor's software tools support a wide range of pedagogical and research uses including: viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. This community resource is made available solely for educational and scholarly uses that are noncommercial in nature.

The roots of ARTstor, as well as its name, can be traced to JSTOR, a non-profit digital archive of scholarly journals also created by the Foundation in 1995.

More information is available at www.artstor.org.