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I recently inquired about the plans for the International Bibliography of Art (successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art.) Last July, the Getty announced that ProQuest had acquired IBA and in September 2010 ProQuest made the 2008-09 indexing available and said that in February 2011 they would begin monthly updating. I have been holding off ordering a subscription for my institution until the updating begins. Here’s the information I was recently sent by ProQuest staff:

 

“At this time, the 2008-2009 is still the current record set but when the editorial team starts up, they will quickly (second quarter of 2011) bring this up to “current”.  The main editor is located in our Louisville editorial office and IBA will be integrated into the same arts & humanities indexing team as our International Index to Music Periodicals, Performing Arts Periodicals and Black Periodicals.  Additionally, the editors will be working closely with our other art-specific databases produced in Cambridge including Artbibliographies Modern, Design and Applies Arts Index and British Humanities Index to make sure the quality is up to part with these other popular resources.  The indexers doing the actual work will be drawn from an international team of freelancers, including some of the same contributors who previously worked on BHA when it was published by the Getty Research Institute.”

 

The ProQuest website indicates the following:

Ideal for academic and specialist art libraries, museums, and design firms, International Bibliography of Art provides authoritative coverage of international scholarship:

• European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945
• Visual arts in all media are covered: painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installations, new media, decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, folk art and material culture, classical studies, antiques, architectural history
• Strong international coverage
• At least 500 core journals will be covered, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.

If anyone has any additional information about IBA and any progress on integrating BHA with the ongoing indexing, I’d love to hear from you.

 

Susan Craig

Art & Architecture Librarian

Univ. of Kansas

 

 

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