VRC@UD

The news blog of the Visual Resources Center at the University of Delaware

Open Access Week 2015

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Derek Churchill

This week is Open Access Week, an annual opportunity to highlight the benefits of sharing scholarly research and resources online.

Kevin Smith, director of the Office of Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University Libraries, will speak in the Morris Library Reading Room at 4:00 pm on Wednesday, October 21. His lecture, “The Meaning of Publication in the Digital Age, or What Open Access Can Do for You,” is part of UD’s celebration of Open Access Week.

You can read more about it in UDaily.

New Collections and New Images Available in Artstor

Posted on October 9, 2015 by Derek Churchill

Shaykh Zada, Divan of Hafiz (folio 77r), ca. 1530, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

Just this week, the Artstor Digital Library has released over 20,000 new images. New collections include the following:

Works of art in the collections of the Harvard Art Museums (Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum)
Photographs by Donald Woodman
Contemporary art installations at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh

The following collections in the Artstor Digital Library have also been expanded with additional images:

Works in the permanent collections of the Seattle Art Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Museum of the City of New York
20th- and 21st-century architecture in Rotterdam from ART on FILE
New media art from the Rhizome ArtBase