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Our Collection Development officer has told me that our Ebsco
representative has asked for suggestions of full-text titles they should
try to add to their databases. She has suggested that if I come up with
a list of the top 2 dozen titles art titles, perhaps they might work on
some. So... what full-text titles would be on your most-wanted list?
Include title, publisher and maybe a few words on why the title is so
vital. 

Nina


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Nina Stephenson
Fine Arts Library  MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM  87131-0001
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>>> Nina Stephenson 11/30/2006 2:57 PM >>>
I don't know if these discussions about art journals are taking place
on more general library discussion lists, but the art librarians ARLIS
list has recently had messages posted about the dearth of full text
journals in the arts...

Date:         Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:03:21 -0500
Reply-To:     Lucie Stylianopoulos 
Sender:       ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST 
From:         Lucie Stylianopoulos 
Subject:      Full text Journals

Dear Colleagues,

I know that particularly in Academic Libraries we are always  
pressured to find Full-text journal articles.  Often, the packages  
that our libraries purchase contain few, if any important full text  
journals in the Arts (with obvious and notable exceptions).  Thus,  
Fine Arts Libraries are left behind in the online library environment 

and often overlooked in funding initiatives.

After listening to a discussion of the new CSA Illustrata product  
which will make available scientific images in full text journals, I  
wondered if an opportunity has come to leverage more full text  
availability for Arts journals. At least four major Art and  
Architecture databases (Avery, BHA, DAAI, and ArtBibModern) are  
currently available through CSA Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.  Will 

CSA also be making images in art and architecture journals available  
through CSA Illustrata?  I think it would be a good time to talk  
about this.

I would like to see ARLIS form a Task Force to leverage more online  
access in our field.  Perhaps we could also collaborate with our  
colleagues in ACRL-ARTS and VRA to present a stronger presence.  I  
would hope that we could meet with our colleagues in the Avery and  
BHA User Groups in Atlanta to start the ball rolling.

Would anyone else be interested in such a group/task force?  Is this  
something the Board would find useful?

thanks,

lucie

Chair, Academic Library Division

Lucie Wall Stylianopoulos
Acting Head, Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library
Collections & Instruction Librarian
Librarian for Art/Archaeology, Architecture and Drama
University of Virginia
Bayly Drive Box 400131
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4131

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