They will be able, for example, to search only the bibliographies that accompany the articles or only for images. This is, after all, art, so those images were a major question mark for potential subscribers. The published volumes have very high-quality reproductions, reviewers said. They are not, for the most part. They vary in quality because users follow links to images of artwork on sites of the museums that own the works.
Some museum directors are unhappy about that.
Grove paid museums for permission to reproduce their works in the print version, and museums make tidy sums from approving such requests from publishers. But though Grove initially talked to some museums about reproductions, in the end it did not seek permission for making images available via Grove Online. Grove argues that it need not pay museums for access to images because it merely links its users to museum sites, where the images are already free. Copyright lawyers seem to think that Grove is right under current law, but perhaps wrong under evolving laws that cover the Internet. The Association of Art Museum Directors, an organization of 170 large North American museums, has discussed making some protest to Grove, though it has not decided exactly how hawkish it will be.