A remarkable step in the development of online research material.
Acquisition is justified for all institutions with an art audience.
A valuable resource for academic and large public libraries. Its annual subscription price can be justified by the inclusion of new and revised articles access to 35,000 images via the Bridgeman Art Library 25,000 eternal image links, and links to 650 art-related Web sites, all totaling well over 100,000 images by the end of 1999, numbers that will continue to grow . This is a growing and evolving product that will serve an ever-widening audience as it expands access to reliable art historical scholarship and convenient image location, truly an exemplar of the melding of electronic text and image that libraries now require and users are coming to expect. The 34-volume Dictionary of Art , a monumental publishing effort released in 1996, is now on the World Wide Web. Many pictures in the book are not available but the missing images can be seen by linking to Internet picture libraries and museum collections.