Fantastic new resource for OCA students!
We are delighted to announce that OCA now has an annual subscription to the invaluable Oxford Art Online. This subscription isn’t just for a picture library but a virtual art reference library and gateway to search the huge content of Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference resources including The Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms.
One of the best things about this resource is that it keeps bang up to date, constantly adding references with new and revised articles and images, plus contemporary art updates and images from the their contemporary art programme. All new content is written and peer reviewed by scholars and specialists. This month, the Benezit Dictionary of Artists will join the Oxford Art Online portal.
Grove Art Online
This is a scholarly art encyclopedia covering all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes), with contributions by 6,700 scholars from 120 countries. Through partnerships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bridgeman Education, the British Museum, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Art Resource, ARTstor, Art Images for College Teaching (AICT), and others. Grove Art Online is able to offers searchable images of works of art, maps, and line drawings. In addition to this content, Grove Art Online hosts learning resources including timelines, thematic guides, and lesson plans from the Museum of Modern Art, and it also offers biographical links to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
You will find a link to Oxford Art Online in the Resources section of the student website. Just click on the link to explore it and let us know what you think.
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Looks like a great resource. I like the fact that you don’t need to sign in, and I found it very easy to search.
One question I have is what is the rule on copyright – in particular could I post a copy of a picture I found on the site on a blog-based learning log? I’ve tried the FAQs and site guide and can’t see an answer. When you click on a picture copyright details come up which suggests to me that the picture possibly can’t be reposted without the owner’s permission but it doesn’t say so expressly. A few artists I looked at didn’t have pictures visible on this site but links, including some where “online rights are unavailable” which made me wonder if the pictures on the site are on some form of wider licence.
I realise I could raise a query privately via the site but thought I’d ask the question here as the answer will be of interest to others.
Hi Eileen, re the copyright issue. This is a good question and deserves a full answer. The same guidelines operate here as they do for Bridgeman Education or for the use of quotes in essays etc. For text, that is no more than 800 words quoted in total from a given piece of text, with an individual quote being no more than 300 words in length, and the source fully acknowledged. For images, any image by an artist may be re-posted if 75 years after the death of the artist, though in theory if it is a photo of an image then the rule applies to the photographer of the image. You may ask OUP for permission to use images individually, and they have told me they have no reason to deny reasonable requests to re-use images in learning blogs on the open internet. If however, your blog is passworded you can use whatever you want. The other solution is of course to reference the image or text and link to it rather than post it in your blog. This may seem like a mealy response but these are the guidelines directly stated by OUP as of this morning. They do say however, that they are reviewing the situation because of the changes that have come about with the advent of technology…. Jane
Thank you very much for this detailed response Jane. It doean’t sound mealy at all. I know these things are often complicated and wanted to know what the ground rules were. I will save this advice for future reference. I know I can just use links but like to decorate my blog with pictures when I can. I think the same issues woud arise when using pictures in essays or other formal written work, if those were shared.
Looks great. Have bookmarked it already. thanks.
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“I like the fact that you don’t need to sign in” – really? Is it just me or does it not work for tutors?
Peter, anyone can access this resource in the resources section next to the Bridgeman log-in on the student site. Maybe it was a blip…. try again! It should work. I just checked it and it worked fine.
I still cannot access either the Oxford or the Bridgeman site! Bridgeman still tells me I am not registered and Oxfors invites me to log in.
Hi Peter, a couple of things to try:
1: Clear your browser cache.
2: make sure you’re not going through the tutor group (first, click on the ‘house’ symbol, then click on Resources’ etc.), as this alters the url for the facility, which is what both of the providers use. We’re only permitted to send users to the facility from one particular url which we’ve registered with the providers, and the ‘tutors’ addition via the tutor group may cause it to invalidate.
Hope that works…
In the end I simply had to log out and log back in again!
I have an issue with Bridgeman aswell, I click on the link – I appear to be signed in as OCA, but then when I search – it says I need to log in. If I do log in – its as though I hadn’t typed in anything at all, its not that I’ve put in the wrong code, I get a different message if I do that.
I’ve tried clearing my browser cache, and I’ve tried over a period of months now. I think there is some issue with my computer settings or browser because I can access it on another computer with no difficulty.
Oxford Art Online works fine for me though!
I just wanted to point out that Peter is not alone with the Bridgman problem anyway:)
as I say above, after all the cache clearing there was no difference till I logged out and logged back in again! Now everything works as it should.
hi paul/peter
— i’ve had problems accessing too; in fact, there are some problems with firefox as browser for creating new message threads, and here it only referred me to the public section when clicking through the resource link. trying it in safari, however, worked without a problem.
many thanks for setting the resource link up – it’s looking great.
gesa
Oh thanks Gesa I’d quite decided it was just me now!
Have signed in and out, deleted history and cache, several times, still no joy. The Bridgman page then says I am signed in as OCA until I search for anything then I get a message saying I am not a registered user. (this is IE9, my other machine is IE8 and works fine, my settings are the same on both computers although this one is windows 7 – 64 thingy).
As I say I have had this issue for months and can’t resolve it, despite trying all suggestions, the only thing left I can think of is to try is another browser on this machine.
Oxford art online is great though, thanks.
Is this the reason? I was able to get into Oxford art online and then made a mistake and logged out* and now I can no longer get in. I’ve cleared the cache and history and logged out and back in but nothing doing, it just comes up with a login page.
(* from the Oxford site)
try logging out of the OCA site and logging back in
Yes I did that a few times and rebooted too, it didn’t work.
I’ll raise this with Jane on Monday and see if we can have Bridgeman and Oxford Art investigate the issue. Unfortunately, there’s a limit to what we can suggest to try in the meantime since they provide the authorisation, not OCA.
Thanks Paul:)
Thanks Paul and I should say that Oxford Art Online is ok this morning for me.
Thanks for this, I will check it out!
Thanks for this, I will check it out!
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