I am an unabashed lover of the Artstor database and I was thrilled to discover a recent Artstor blog announcement sharing that more that one million images, videos, documents, and audio files from public institutional collections are now freely available without a login.

You don’t need to be a subscriber. Simply visit http://library.artstor.com

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All this lovely new discoverability is possible because contributing institutions make their content available via JSTOR Forum, a tool facilitates the cataloging, management, and sharing of digital media collections.

In addition to the art in the Public Collections provided by a wide array of institutions, the general public now has access to

• Curriculum Guides
• Subject Guides
• AP Teaching Resources
• the LibGuide offering an overview of the freely available Public Collections, including pages on the following
  • Archaeology & Antiquities
  • Architectural Drawings & Photographs
  • Artists’ Books
  • Botany
  • Campus & Institutional History
  • Courses & Student Work
  • Fieldwork & Faculty Work
  • Manuscripts
  • Maps
  • Multimedia
  • Museum & Gallery Collections
  • Oral History
  • Ornithology
  • Special Collections
  • Teaching Collections
  • Fashion, Costume & Theater
  • Omeka Sites

Thanks to Gary Price for this lead.