Hi Ruth (and ARLIS),
Your post made me want to know what is going on with their rationale with color vs. b&w, too! I’m the reference dept. art editor and don’t work with journals, but I emailed that team to see what was going on. It seemed odd to me that the current publications would forego color.
I reached out to the journals manager and explained that people have noticed black and white images in recent OAJ issues. I asked, “Have we started doing B&W-only print due to cost? Is this permanent?”
She told me that OAJ hasn’t ever been full color – rather, they've always printed selected images in color when requested by authors. But, she continued: “That said – the journal moved to full colour this year! This would be even more exciting if the first issue of 2015 wasn’t a special issue on black and white art (I’m not even joking!), so I suppose readers can expect to see the full effect of this change from 38:2 onwards, although technically it came into effect in 38:1… Anyway, hopefully this will be good news.”
Thus, there should be full color going forward! This would also explain the inconsistency of color vs. b&w images over the years. I thought this bit about the ironically timed b&w art issue was kind of a hoot, so I wanted to pass it along in full.
Good wishes,
Alodie
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