Transforming Publishing Practices in the ArtsImages for Academic Publishing (IAP)

VRA/ARLIS Annual ConferenceMinneapolis, MNMarch 27, 20111:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Christine KuanChief Content Officer & VP of External AffairsARTstorchristine.kuan@artstor.org

Jost Ammann, The Printer's Workshop, from The Book of Trades, 1568. British Museum, London, United Kingdom. Photo Credit: Erich Lessing/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.

Kuan, Christine. "A Question of Practice: The Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings in the ARTstor Digital Library." Master Drawings, vol. 48, no. 3 (2010), pp. 374-9.

The Moving Wall for Journal Publications

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El libro es una de las posibilidades de felicidad que tenemos los hombres.

The book is one of the possibilities of happiness that we, men, have.

-Jorge Luis Borges ‘El libro’,

Borges oral, Bruguera, 1983

Art Publishing Challenges:•Image research•Licensing fees for photos and permissions•Timeline for image delivery and image clearance•Digital life of publication

Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), The Garden of Earthly Delights (1480-1490 or 1503-1504); Museo del Prado.

         ii. LACMA expressly prohibits the use, copying, display, publication, distribution, transmission, modification, reposting or exploitation for commercial or public purposes of the Protected Content, except for the limited purposes described above.

Images for Academic Publishing (IAP)for subscribers and non-subscribers of the ARTstor Digital Library

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Vincent van Gogh, L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux, 1888-1889

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“ … to facilitate scholarship in the arts by reducing the costs associated with publishing

images in academic journals and similar publications.”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (6,700 images)

Bryn Mawr: Mellink Archive of Ancient Near East (3,900 images)

Yale University Art Gallery (forthcoming)

Getty Research Institute (forthcoming)

Indianapolis Museum of Art (forthcoming)

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Some recent studies and reports

• AAMD Policy on the Use of “Thumbnail” Digital Images in Museum Online Initiatives, January 19, 2011.

• Allen, Nancy. Art Museum Images in Scholarly Publishing. 2009. • Waltham, Mary. “The Future of Scholarly Journals Publishing Among Social Science and

Humanities Associations. Report on a study funded by a Planning Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.” 2009.

• Brown, Laura, Rebecca Griffiths, and Matthew Rascoff. “University Publishing in a Digital Age.” 2007.

• Ballon, Hilary and Mariët Westermann. Art History and Its Publications in the Electronic Age. 2006.

• McGill, Lawrence T. The State of Scholarly Publishing in the History of Art and Architecture. 2006.

• Lyon, Christopher. “The Art Book’s Last Stand?” Art in America (September 2006): 48-51.• Nicoll, John. “Why art publishing is in crisis,” Apollo 161, no. 519 (May 2005): 72.• Tanner, Simon. “Reproduction charging models & rights policy for digital images in American

art museums. A Mellon Foundation study.” 2004.