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Grove Art Online
 What's New?
Grove Art Online remains the most comprehensive and authoritative online resource for all inquiries into the history of the visual arts. Since its launch in 1998, it has been cited as the "exemplar of the melding of electronic text and image" (C&RL) and was the only full text reference to receive an "A" rating in Library Journal's recent evaluation of electronic resources in art and related disciplines.
At launch
- 26 million words
- 45,050 articles
- 6800 contributors
- Comprehensive index
- Extensive live cross-referencing
- Simple and advanced searching, with choice of concept, pattern or boolean modes
- Bibliography search
Since launch
- 646 new artist biographies
- 422 contemporary, mostly European and American
- 59 American / Latin American
- 100 African
- 65 Chinese
- c.5000 articles significantly revised, including complete revision and expansion of China article
- many minor updates/additions (e.g. death dates, bibliography)
- over 45,000 image links added, providing extensive illustrative material for all major and many minor artists
- over 1000 links to useful websites
- Complete redesign of site for improved user-friendliness
- Contributor contact information added (where permission given)
- Partnership with Bridgeman art archive offers access to approx. 100,000 images of art works
- Additional and improved search capability, including:
- Search within article
- Search biographical details
- Search image links
- Initiation of date-stamping to alert users to new or revised articles
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Specifications and orders
Published November 1998
North and South America
ISBN: 1-884446-05-1
Contact
Oxford University Press Customer Support
+1 800-334-4249 ext. 6484
onlinesubscriptions@oup-usa.org
UK and Rest of World
ISBN: 0333-771028
Contact
onlineproducts@oup.com
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