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Assessing and comparing databases for art history

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Svein Engelstad
Svein Engelstad*
Affiliation:
University of Oslo Library, P.O.Box 1009, Blindern, 0315 Oslo, Norway
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Email: s.a.engelstad@ub.uio.no
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Abstract

Working in a large university library provides daily challenges in giving appropriate advice to students and researchers when they search for art history material. One of the biggest of these is how to choose the best databases to use, and the survey described below aimed to provide better information on which to base decisions about which the library should subscribe to. Many libraries face the same problems. What is really covered in the different databases? And how do they communicate with other library systems and electronic resources?

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , 2011 , pp. 37 - 42
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2011

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