Paul,
It's being made available through two vendors (as far as I know) --
Wilson is offering a product called AMIG and RLG is offering it as
CAMIO.
Here's some of the Wilson info:
http://www.hwwilson.com/Databases/artmuseum.htm
Here's a pdf of the CAMIO brochure
http://www.rlg.org/en/pdfs/support/camio-brochure.pdf
I haven't been able to check if they are offering basically the same
product or if the list of participating museums for each vendor is
significantly different. Our Wilson rep sent me the list of
participating museums and it included 21 institutions (incl. the Met,
the V&A, Minneapolis Inst. of FA, LACMA, San Francisco M of Modern Art,
Detroit Inst. of Arts, the Phillips Coll., the Whitney, Boston, Nat'l
Gallery of Canada, Smithsonian American Art, etc.). She said it'd be
compatible with cross-data searching tools (I'd asked about metalib)
and certainly one will be able to search it alongside Art Full Text and
Art Retro.
It'll be interesting to test them both out.
best
Rebecca
On May 26, 2005, at 11:55 AM, Paul Glassman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Would anyone know what's happening with AMICO? I'm unable to find
> information about its future on the AMICO Web site. More specifically,
> what should institutions who currently have it do if they want to
> continue providing it for their patrons? I understand that the group
> purchasing unit at NYLINK, the local branch of OCLC, no longer makes it
> available, and many universities and college in New York State
> subscribed
> to AMICO through NYLINK for the discount.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Paul Glassman
> Assistant Dean for Reference Services & Collection Development
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