OpenBibArt is a bibliographic database born out of a collaboration between the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique of the CNRS (Inist-CNRS). It unifies the contents of four related datasets, whose history is described below, into a single open search platform developed by Inist-CNRS.
“This remarkable initiative was made possible through the hard work and creative efforts of each of the partners,” said Kathleen Salomon, associate director and chief librarian at the Getty Research Institute. “OpenBibArt will help bring the published research and ideas of previous generations of scholars to new audiences, not only to learn from them, but also to consider them anew in the context of a broader and more inclusive art history.”
Researchers may freely search OpenBibArt in French or English to discover a wide range of citations from among nearly 1.2 million journal articles, books, and exhibition and auction sales catalogues published between 1910 and 2007 on topics in the arts and archeology from late Antiquity to the mid-2000s. Over the course of nearly 100 years, each of the four resources now included in OpenBibArt played a significant role in systematically documenting hundreds of thousands of art-historical and archeological publications of their time.
h/t Kathleen Salomon, Chief Librarian | Associate Director, Getty Research Institute