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For Immediate Release
Bibliography of the History of Art Now Available Through CSA Illumina
BETHESDA, Maryland, USA (18 May 2005) -- Researchers can now access the Bibliography of the History of Art through the CSA Illumina platform. Published by the Getty Research Institute of the J. Paul Getty Trust and the French Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (INIST-CNRS), the database is the most comprehensive art bibliography available worldwide, covering European and American visual arts from late antiquity to the present.
The newly-released CSA Illumina platform provides users with both an easy to use Quick Search feature as well as powerful tools for the expert searcher. CSA Illumina also features extensive links to holdings and full-text resources, as well as its unique Web Resources Database. Other arts and humanities databases available through CSA Illumina include:
ARTbibliographies Modern
ATLA Religion Database
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
BHI: British Humanities Index
Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
Index Islamicus
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts
MLA International Bibliography
The Philosopher's Index
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
CSA makes trial access to the Bibliography of the History of Art available to interested institutions. For additional information, contact [log in to unmask]
Broad in scope, Bibliography of the History of Art's citations encompass fine arts-painting, sculpture, drawing, prints, architecture-as well as decorative and applied arts-crafts, graphic arts, and folk and popular art among them. It includes and extends the coverage of its two predecessor art indexes: Répertoire d'Art et d'Archéologie (RAA) from 1973 to 1989 and International Repertory of the Literature of Art (RILA) from 1975 to 1989. The database contains more than 590,000 records drawn from 1,400 journals, as well as books, conference proceedings, essays, exhibition catalogues, selected art dealers' catalogues, doctoral dissertations and microform publications. Records feature detailed abstracts in English or French.
The Getty Research Institute, an operating program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is committed to bringing together all the resources and activities required to advance understanding of the visual arts taken in their widest possible significance. The work of the Research Institute takes its place within the collaborative context of the Getty Center as a whole, including the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the international projects and research of the Conservation Institute, and the philanthropic outreach of the Grant Program. INIST is a service unit of the French National Center for Scientific Research ( CNRS). INIST's mission is to collect, process, analyze and disseminate the results and findings of international research. As a major French document supplier and database producer, INIST offers resources and services designed to help academic and research organizations and the economic sector access international scientific and technical information.
CSA is a worldwide information company, serving as a guide to researchers to help them be more effective in their work by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. A privately held company, CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices throughout the U.S., and in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Europe and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions worldwide use CSA information resources, and CSA's print journals are used in more than 80 countries. CSA has been a leader in publishing and providing quality abstracts and indexes and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years.
For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: [log in to unmask]).
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