Art and Architecture Library News

New Resource: Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) Renaissance and Reformation

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) – Renaissance and Reformation, now available online, is a tool that researchers at all levels (undergraduates through faculty) can use to find the most important and significant resources (reference works, books, journals, archives, websites and more) on selected topics in history and culture from the 14th through the 17th centuries.

Articles are written by leading scholars, including Washington University’s Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, William Wallace (see Michelangelo Buonarroti). Updates and new entries will be added on a regular basis. WU Libraries also subscribe to OBO Islamic Studies and OBO Social Work.To learn more, visit About OBO.

 

 

Berg Fashion Library (New Resource)

The Berg Fashion Library (Oxford University Press) is an online resource now available through the catalog, databases and Fashion research guide. Featuring fully cross-searchable text and images, it covers world fashion and dress, from pre-history to the present day. The collection includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and much more. More information about the content is available here.

New! JSTOR Collection VIII

Access to JSTOR Collection VIII is now available and the titles are in our catalog. Highlights include a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. This collection also includes journals in philosophy, classical studies, and music. More information regarding the collection is available here.

Designinform (New Database)

Designinform contains three separate design databases on one platform: Design Abstracts Retrospective, Design ProFILES, and ReVIEW.

Design Abstracts Retrospective (DAR), is a "new ongoing abstracting and indexing service that aims to cover many of the most important design and applied arts journals and annuals published during the twentieth century. Titles in the initial releases have been selected because of their outstanding international coverage and breadth of scope. DAR covers articles on all design, from architecture to embroidery."

Design ProFILES (DP), is a biographical dictionary of modern designers, craftspeople, artists and architects. "This resource covers the same subject fields as DAR and is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of design and designers ever compiled. It includes profiles of every single designer, architect, craftsperson, studio, workshop, etc. whose work is discussed or illustrated in the journals and yearbooks covered by DAR."

and ReVIEW, full-text nineteenth and early twentieth century art journals. ReVIEW "aims to digitize many of the most important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries." The first two journals digitized by ReVIEW are The Studio (London, Volumes 1-50, 1893-1910) and Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (Darmstadt, Germany, Volumes 1-27, 1897-1910).

New Resource: Graphic Atlas

Graphic Atlas is a new open access online resource that provides a survey of illustration techniques and allows for comparison of the different methods: pre-photographic, photomechanical, photographic, and digital. Print identification and exploration tools are provided through the Graphic Atlas interface, developed by the Image Permanence Institute.

New Database: International Bibliography of Art (IBA) 2008-

International Bibliography of Art (IBA) is the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), and includes the most recent index records that were created by the Getty Research Institute as part of BHA. These records cover scholarship from the year 2008 to 2009, and ProQuest will be building on this by adding 25,000 new records per year going forwards.

IBA continues coverage of European and American art from late antiquity to the present. Including indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings and dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles.

Bibliography of the History of Art Revived--Getty provides free open & access!

The Getty just announced this morning that they would provide free, open access to the BHA archive through their website. For more information, please see the announcement below. The library will redirect our links to reflect BHA's new online location.

 

THE GETTY PROVIDES FREE ACCESS TO THE BHA ON ITS WEBSITE

"As of April 1, 2010, the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will be available free of charge on the Getty Web site at http://library.getty.edu/bha. Free Web access to BHA is an advantage not only to all traditional users of the database but also to such potential users as institutions in developing countries and independent scholars worldwide, who until now have been unable to afford access to the BHA. Since ending its collaboration with the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST)–CNRS in December 2007, the Getty has been searching for partners to continue the production and distribution of BHA. This process has been complicated, and with no suitable arrangement immediately available, the Getty decided to act on its commitment to the scholarly community by providing access to BHA directly from its own Web site.

“The Bibliography of the History of Art has been an indispensable resource for scholars and students for many years. We are delighted to announce that BHA will be available on the Getty Web site. We remain firmly committed to making the present BHA accessible to all,” says Thomas Gaehtgens, Director of the Getty Research Institute.

BHA on the Getty Web site offers both basic and advanced search modules, and can be searched easily by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements. To search BHA, please visit, http://library.getty.edu/bha. Note that the database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l’art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975-1989, will be online by May 1."

Ceased: Bibliography of the History of Art

The Getty Research Institute has announced that they will no longer publish the database Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Access to BHA will cease on April 1, 2010. Read the official announcement here. http://www.csa.com/factsheets/bha-set-c.php

 

The WU Library subscribes to the following databases that cover the majority of BHA’s titles:

 

L’Annee Philologique

Art Full Text & Retrospective Index

Archaologische Bibliographie (Dyabola)

ARTBibliographies Modern

Arts & Humanities Citation Index

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Design & Applied Arts Index

Index Islamicus

International Medieval Bibliography

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Historical Abstracts

 

Questions? Email us artarch@wustl.edu or stop by the Art & Architecture Library.

ARTstor Travel Awards 2010

Apply for one of five research travel awards in the amount of $1500 each by April 1.  Travel to works and sites, for research in archives that hold primary source material, or to attend a conference.  More information is at http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/travel-awards.shtml

New Resource: Oxford Companion to the Book

The WU Library recently subscribed to the Oxford Companion to the Book, available in both print and electronic formats.  

  
  
Edited by Michael F. Suarez, S. J. and Henry R. Woudhuysen

"The Oxford Companion to the Book is a unique work of reference, covering the book, broadly conceived, throughout the world from ancient to modern times. It includes traditional subjects such as bibliography, palaeography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, textual criticism, book collecting, and libraries, but it also engages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book. It pays particular attention to how different societies shape books and how books shape societies." --Oxford homepage

Access online or in print: Art Reference Z4 .O946 2010 v. 1-2