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Your Artstor Image Groups on JSTOR

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The Artstor website was retired on August 1, 2024. To ensure a seamless transition to JSTOR, we copied the contents of all Artstor users’ image groups into folders in their JSTOR Workspace on February 1, 2024 and any groups updated since then on July 29, 2024. (If an image that couldn't be copied becomes available on JSTOR later, it will automatically be added to your Workspace.)

Getting started with Workspace

To view your copied image group content and get started with Workspace, log into JSTOR and select Workspace from the main navigation.

Tips:

  • If you’ve not logged into JSTOR before, you can use your Artstor username and password.
  • You can find more available actions for a folder or item by selecting the three vertical dots after its name to open the overflow menu.
  • You can rearrange items in a folder by selecting and dragging the reorder item button next to the image thumbnail.

Searching your Workspace and creating folders

Each of your copied image groups will appear as a folder with the same name as its corresponding image group on Artstor. Once you have several folders in your Workspace, you may want to use subfolders to organize them and bring together related content. The search box in Workspace can help.

To search for items and folders in your Workspace, enter your search term(s) in the Search Workspace search bar and press the Enter/Return key or click the magnifying glass icon.

To move your selected items into another folder, select the Move button that appears at the top of your Workspace and choose an existing folder or create a new one.

See Workspace: Viewing and Organizing Your Research for more.

Finding duplicate folders

If you already copied one or more of your image groups to JSTOR manually using our copy tool, copies of duplicate folders will include the copy date (YYYY-MM-DD) in their name. You can use the search box to gather related folders, or find duplicate copied folders by searching for the date they were copied.

A duplicate Workspace folder with the date it was copied appended to its name

Tips:

  • When selecting folders, select the checkbox for your first choice and then you can click anywhere on subsequent folders to add them to your selection.
  • If you think you may want to use certain items or folders later, try creating an archive folder and move materials into it.

Sharing folders

On JSTOR, parent folders with subfolders can be shared with students or colleagues. If one or more of your image groups was shared with members of your institution on Artstor, the corresponding Workspace folder has been automatically shared with the same institution on JSTOR. You can edit these permissions at any time.

To share a folder, select the Share button after the folder name. See Workspace: Sharing Folders for more.

Tips:

  • There is no need to create a new link as you update the contents of a shared folder. Any updates that are made to a shared folder will be visible to others through the link.
  • You can turn off link sharing whenever necessary.

Duplicating folders

You can duplicate folders in your Workspace to make a copy that can be changed without affecting the original folder, for example, to use in a different course or for a different purpose.

To duplicate a folder, open the overflow menu after the folder name and select Duplicate. See Workspace: Viewing and Organizing Your Research for more.

Tips:

  • Copy a folder and edit it to share with students for review or testing.
  • Use a copy to begin further exploration of a topic.

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