Colleagues,
The French, who co-published/processed BHA from its beginning,
were the ones that began the demise of BHA when, several years ago, they
decided to pull out of the joint responsibility with the Getty. This
information was advertised rather limitedly, but it was what began the
downslide that has resulted in where we are now, so it is no wonder that the
French are not now interested in hosting the “dead” BHA.
We must all now prepare for the disappearance of the online BHA,
but those of us who have retained the print volumes, to whatever extent (I
suspect that most libraries discontinued the print volumes, once they began the
subscription to the online BHA, but some chose to withdraw those volumes entirely,
alas), so some of us will now move our print volumes back to our main reference
collections, along with the RILA volumes, and the RAA volumes.
For, if it hasn’t all sunk in yet, what with where events
have now brought us, we are now facing the extinction of not only the online BHA,
but also the online RILA, and those relatively few years of the RAA
that were accessible electronically.
Not only those libraries that possess the print volumes of these
three titles, but the libraries that possess the following three titles, will
be in a good shape to assist their users in identifying articles published in festschriften:
--Lincoln, Betty Woelk. Festschriften in Art
History, 1960-1975: Bibliography and
Index. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
And
--Rave,
Paul Ortwin. Kunstgeschichte in Festschriften: Allgemeine
Bibliographie
Kunstwissenschaftlicher
Abhandlungen in den bis 1960 Erschienenen
Festschriften. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1962.
As well as
--Rounds,
Dorothy. Articles on Antiquity in Festschriften: The Ancient Near
East, The Old
Testament,
Greece, Rome, Roman Law, Byzantium: An Index. Cambridge:
Harvard
University Press, 1962.
As we move forward from the wrenching disappearance of
the electronic versions of BHA, RILA, and some of RAA, we need to
think about ways and resources that can assist us and our users to identify
sources, when we can no longer rely on what many of us may have once taken for
granted.
While arguably no other online resources will ever
individually replace as equivalents or really ever come close to approaching
the richness and depth of RILA, the relatively little bit of RAA that
had been converted, or of BHA, there are many online databases
that include the indexing/abstracting of international art and architecture
materials.
We need to share, on this listserv, the sources that we find viable for our work,
even if some of the resources may be economically outside our individual library’s
price-range at the present.
(Also, there are many excellent non-subscription
websites that provide related material, and these are resources to explore parallely,
in another listserv email discussion; as an example, for those interested in
American Art before 1945, see my document of “Web Resources for American
Art Founded by Jeffrey Weidman,” on the newly redesigned website for the
Association of Historians of American Art:
< http://www.ahaaonline.com
>, and then click on “Read More” under “New Web Resources,”
at the far right. I can also share with anyone, as a WORD file, the Bookmarks
file of URLs that I have been compiling since 1998, the latest version of which
is a resource on our public PCs, which consists of 14,000+ URLs organized by
320+ subject categories. Many on the ARLIS/NA listserv already regularly
receive the updates of this file; anyone who would like to begin receiving the
latest version, and subsequent updates, just send me an email requesting such,
at [log in to unmask])
For now, regarding online databases vis a vis the
immediate demise of BHA/RILA/RAA, here are some sources to consider as
potentially useful:
--Academic OneFile
--Academic Search Premier
--ACLS humanities E-Book
--ArchiveGrid
--Art Abstracts
--Art Full Text
--ArtBibliographies Modern
--Arts & Humanities Citation Index
--Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
--British Periodicals I and II
--FIAF members Publications
--General OneFile
--Google Scholar
--Guide to Reference Online
--JSTOR
--OmniFile V Full Text
--Oxford Art Online
--Oxford Reference Online Premium
--Project Muse
--Scopus
For Images:
--Art Museum Image Gallery
--ARTStor
--CAMIO – Catalog of Art Museum Images Online
Jeffrey Weidman, M.A., Ph.D., M.L.S.
Senior Librarian, Public Services & Collection Development
Spencer Art Reference Library
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
Tel: 816-751-1215
FAX: 816-751-0498
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From: ART LIBRARIES
SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Anne
Haas
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 10:12 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] BHA
So true, Ruth...even a closed database is
better than none in this case... I’ve had some messages from people about
some things I’ve not heard of—FRANCIA is one—does anyone have
info about this?
Anne
On 3/2/10 10:01 AM, "Ruth Thomas" <[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
It is unfortunate Getty (or a publisher)
cannot simply host the existing
database without adding or editing content--much like e-books generally
work. I have heard that a publisher is interested but can't get the
French on board.
Ruth S. Thomas
Archaeology, Art, Art History, Classics Bibliographer
Mugar Memorial Library
Boston University
771 Commonwealth Ave.
Boston, MA 02215
(617)353-3770
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