Information technology firm ProQuest, US, has announced an agreement with the Getty Research Institute (GRI). The agreement will allow ProQuest to take over the indexing of the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), providing a secure future for a resource considered central to the study of art history. The agreement assures the database's continuing development and accessibility to researchers around the world.
ProQuest will distribute IBA content created by the GRI (covering the years 2008 through 2009), and build on it by adding new index records going forward. ProQuest will retain the editorial policies which made IBA one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field, continuing to provide full abstracts and subject indexing for its wide international and multi-lingual range of periodicals, monographs and catalogues. Over time, ProQuest also intends to expand coverage of art from Asia, Latin America and Africa in response to requests from art librarians and researchers.
ProQuest will enable the IBA to be cross-searched with its other major bibliographies and complementary full-text resources. As an official part of the ProQuest family, IBA will benefit from ProQuest's acclaimed editorial operations, with its emphasis on subject expertise and manual indexing for specialist arts and humanities resources. The company's advanced search technology will enable users to discover, gather, create and share this content.
ProQuest will make the existing IBA content available on the CSA Illumina platform immediately, and at the same time begin bringing the database up to date. The database will migrate to ProQuest's all-new platform in early 2011.
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