Visual Resources Library

Welcome to the blog for the Visual Resources collections at Western Michign University. Collections include slides, pictures, auction catalogs, CD-ROMs, videos, DVDs, and 16 mm film. Announcements of new services and materials as well as the activities of our facilities will be found here. Readers may submit comments and questions for posting that are pertinent to our collections and policies. For more information on our collections, feel free to visit: http://www.wmich.edu/library/

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

AccuNet/ AP Multimedia Archive has new name

The popular media tool formerly known at AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive is now called AP Images. It continues to provide the same content but the interface is improved. Here's the link:

http://apimages.ap.org/default.aspx

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Oxford Art Online replaces Grove Art Online

The art research tool Grove Art Online is now Oxford Art Online. For user convenience a cross reference link from Grove to Oxford has been created in the Database A-Z list on the Library homepage.

Monday, July 07, 2008

JStor and ARTStor databases

ARTStor, the image database of over 100,000 images for teaching, is now integrated into JStor, the article and full-text database.
To access ARTStor, go to http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml
To access JStor, go to http://www.jstor.org/action/showAdvancedSearch
For assistance in using either or both of these research tools, contact Miranda Howard at miranda.howard@wmich.edu or visit the Visual Resources Library.