by Jon Lackman | 23 June 2011 | Uncategorized
The quest to save the Bibliography of the History of Art seemed to achieve success last year, but in the latest issue of Art Libraries Journal (36:2) Svein Engelstad writes:
Users should be concerned about several problems with this solution. First of all, the old BHA content will not be available from the new provider because of copyright problems, apart from the last couple of years it was published. Secondly, the editing of the database has changed: IBA will not continue with the previous system of national editors, and the number of journals indexed has been reduced dramatically.
Engelstad notes that there are several alternatives to BHA, but is forced to conclude that “the survival of traditional art bibliographies seems quite uncertain.”
