Recommendations

The fully stated recommendations at the end of Parts II and III are summarized below.

Images

• 1

  Organize a campaign to break down barriers to access and distribution of images, in all media and ataffordable prices, for scholarly research and publication, through the following actions.
  • Work with museums to remove copyright restrictions on images of works currently in the public domain.
  • Create a streamlined, potentially centralized digital image licensing system with low- or no-cost pricing for scholarly use,and with an online order form.
  • Develop a database that centralizes information on available subventions for images and permissions fees.

Electronic publications

• 2

  Develop electronic extensions of the journals of record, Art Bulletin and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians , and use them to publish a variety of electronically enhanced texts equipped with interactiveimages.

• 3

  Develop online publication genres and formats that take advantage of museum exhibitions as sites ofresearch and appear during and after the exhibitions.

• 4

  Form a consortium for the publication of art and architectural history online sponsored by the scholarlysocieties, College Art Association and the Society of Architectural Historians .

University presses and libraries

• 5

  Enhance the mission of university presses in terms of knowledge dissemination and scholarly communication ratherthan book publishing alone, and connect some of their programs more closely with their namesake universities and libraries.

• 6

  Support libraries in their efforts to use the internet to make copyrighted and orphan works available at thelowest possible cost to the widest communities of readers.

• 7

  Encourage university presses to leverage the extant expertise of print-on-demand companies to pursueprint-on-demand services for scholarly publications in art history.