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Images for Academic Publishing (IAP)
Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) seeks to facilitate scholarship in the arts by reducing the costs associated with publishing images in academic journals and similar publications. Image providers participating in IAP have supplied publication-quality images and agreed to make them available free-of-charge for use in scholarly publications. As a service to the community, ARTstor has developed the software to deliver these publication-quality images to users.
ARTstor users can download IAP images by providing some basic information and agreeing to the IAP Terms & Conditions of Use. To find an image that is available through IAP, simply add "IAP" to your search criteria. IAP images will have an icon reading "IAP" located directly beneath their thumbnail image.
Currently, approximately 3,300 images representative of the broad range of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's encyclopedic collection are available through the ARTstor Digital Library. With time, we expect to grow the IAP service to include images from multiple sources.
In some instances, third-party copyright permissions may be needed (such as where the underlying work in an image is still under copyright). However, ARTstor and the image providers in the IAP service hope that by lowering the costs for academic publication, this initiative will significantly promote scholarship and learning in the arts and related fields, and will encourage others in the community to support such endeavors.
For more information, please review the IAP-Metropolitan Museum of Art Terms & Conditions of Use and the ARTstor IAP Privacy Policy.
Access
Scholars at participating ARTstor institutions are able to access these images through the ARTstor Digital Library. Scholars working on specific publication projects who are unaffiliated with an ARTstor participating institution can register to use IAP by emailing iap@artstor.org.
Contact Information
For questions about IAP and related policies, please email either The Metropolitan Museum of Art at scholars.license@metmuseum.org or ARTstor at iap@artstor.org.
For technical questions related to downloading IAP images, please contact ARTstor User Services at 888.278.0079 or userservices@artstor.org.
Image credits
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas, French, 1834 - 1917; The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage; probably 1874; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; ARTstor ID# MMA_IAP_1039651314
