The University of Hawai'i Press wishes to announce that vol. 57 (2007)
of the Asia Society's journal Archives of
Asian Art will be appearing from UH Press in about 3 months
time. Vol. 56 (2006) was published by Brepols earlier this year. We
have not been able to obtain a full list of subscribers, so we ask any
subscribers on this list who have not yet renewed for 2007 to contact
our circulation manager at <[log in to unmask]>. Ebsco has
subscribed for about 100 institutions so far, but we have not heard
from other subscription agents yet.
We apologize for the delay, most of which is due to the inevitable
extra steps involved in the transition to a new publisher, most notably
a redesign in this case. To find out more and get a preview of the
forthcoming issue, please follow the links below.
Archives of Asian Art homepage
http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/asianart/
Archives of Asian Art, vol. 57, table of contents
http://uhpjournals.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/archives-of-asian-art-vol-57-2007/
Finally, we would like to solicit feedback from any of you on two
further contemplated changes in the venerable Archives of Asian Art.
1. The Archives has not so far included abstracts of each
article. Most of our other journals include abstracts, and some also
include keywords. Would librarians find it helpful for us to publish
abstracts with each article and to include those abstracts when we
publish tables of contents on the web? I think abstracts can be very
helpful when indexed by search engines in getting the word out to
general readers.
2. We would like to publish an electronic edition of the Archives,
but are worried that the difficulty of getting permission to publish
images in enduring online archives may force us to withhold many images
from the online edition, thus defeating a principal purpose of the
journal. The attitudes of some key museums seem to be shifting to
accommodate the needs of digital publications. Is this still likely to
remain a major hurdle?
Joel
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Joel Bradshaw
Journals Manager
University of Hawaii Press
2840 Kolowalu Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Tel: 808-956-6790
Fax: 808-988-6052
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