UCC Library Introduction to

Topics  What is ARTstor?  Why is it now available, and why is it useful?  Techniques for searching databases  Browsing ARTstor  Searching: basic and advanced  Using ‘groups’  Saving/printing etc.  Some extra features  Off-campus access and system requirements

Introduction  550,000 images + descriptions + support tools  Non-profit organisation  Images sourced from Museums, Libraries, individual collections  IReL consortium (SFI and HEA)  N.B Terms and conditions of useTerms and conditions of use Permitted uses ‘Noncommercial educational and scholarly uses’

What are databases?  A collection of logically related data designed to meet the information needs of one or more users e.g. telephone book, airline reservation system, files on your computer, company database of customers or products, library catalogue  Already familiar with ‘bibliographic’ databases e.g. JSTOR (an electronic index to periodical articles, containing citations, abstracts. Also books, conference proceedings, theses etc.)  N.B. ARTstor is a database of images + descriptions of those images and software to view/use them

How are Databases Organised?  Databases are made up of records: one record for each article/ book/image etc.  A field is the basic unit of entry in a record  For a journal article fields might include: Title, Author, Keywords, Source, Publication Year, Abstract etc.  ARTstor fields: creator, culture, title, work type, date, location, description, subject, repository, collection, source, rights  For each record (e.g. image) included in a the database, data is entered in that format.  Known as ‘metadata’  Searches of the databases can be narrowed to one or more fields

Searching Skills dogs AND cats dogs OR cats Boolean Operators: AND, OR

Searching Skills Cats NOT dogs Boolean Operators: NOT

Searching Skills  asthma AND alternative medicine  asthma AND (alternative medicine OR complementary medicine)  asthma NOT (alternative medicine OR complementary medicine)

Searching Skills  modernism AND colour  modernis* AND (colour OR color OR shade OR tone OR timbre)  cubism NOT Picasso

Off-Campus Access  Access from the library website as usual  Prompted for three things: 1. Name 2. Student ID number 3. PIN  Note system requirementssystem requirements

Exercise  Search for images of sculptures by Degas that depict horses.  Pick three and save to a new group in ‘My Work Folder’ Password: Qfloor1