ARTstor Update

Content:

* Remote Access Grace Period Increased to 90 Days *

* The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection Now Available
in ARTstor *

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Remote Access Grace Period Increased to 90 Days

We are delighted to inform you that the Remote Access Grace Period for
ARTstor has been increased to 90 days for registered users with
Instructor Privileges. Users without Instructor Privileges will still
have a 14-day Grace Period.

Each time you log on to your ARTstor account from within your
institution (or via your institution's proxy server), you reset your
Access Grace Period to the maximum length - 90 days for users with
Instructor Privileges and 14 days for all other registered users. This
means that for the next 14 or 90 days you will be able to access
ARTstor from any computer connected to the Internet. You will also be
able to log in to ARTstor from the Offline Image Viewer to download
your ARTstor Image Groups remotely.

If you try to access online ARTstor remotely, when you click on the
"Search and Browse for Images" link, a new window will open requesting
your email address and password. When you click the "submit" button on
that form, if you have entered a valid ARTstor user account and if you
have logged on to that ARTstor account in the past 14 or 90 days, you
will enter the ARTstor Library. As you enter, you will be reminded of
how many days remain for remote access.

For more information about the Remote Access Grace Period, please
download this PDF document [http://www.artstor.org/info/using_artstor/remoteaccess.pdf].

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The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection Now Available
in ARTstor

It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability in ARTstor
of "The Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection." To browse
this new collection, please enter ARTstor and click on the "The
Schlesinger History of Women in America Collection" link.

The Schlesinger History of Women in America collection is the product
of a partnership between ARTstor and the Arthur and Elizabeth
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University. The collection embraces
approximately 36,000 high quality digital images from the Schlesinger
Library's renowned photographic archives. These images represent the
work of both professional and amateur artistic and documentary
photographers, including the work of many women photographers as well
as men. Portraits of women's work in domestic service, agriculture,
and needlework, their employment in factories, and opportunities in
clerical work, nursing, medicine, and teaching, are included. The
photographic archive richly documents key participants in the women's
suffrage movement and larger women's rights movement, as well as women
involved in organized labor and vocational training. The collection
includes images of diverse women, including African Americans, Asians
and other immigrants. It also includes materials related to women
artists, such as sculptor and inventor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908).
These images provide a unique kind of documentation of women's
history, which ARTstor makes much more easily accessible to educators
and scholars.

The audience for this collection will include scholars, teachers, and
students throughout the arts, humanities and social sciences, who will
value having the ability to access and browse this unique collection
of images for educational and scholarly uses.

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe
Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, is the leading
national repository for women's history. The Library's collections
document the full spectrum of activities and experiences of American
women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular strengths include
women's rights and suffrage, social reform, the labor movement, work
and professions, family history, health and sexuality, culinary
history, and gender issues.