BHA to cease as of March 31, 2010

Due to budget cuts, the Getty is ceasing to support the BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art). As of March 31, all access to the online version of BHA will cease. They are working to find partners or buyers for the product but have not had any luck with that so far. This event, happening as it does to a resource that we always considered to be stable, is really indicative of just how volatile the traditional publishing market is right now. It's disheartening for the BHA to cease to be as it has such a long history and represents content that we currently have no other way to access (no other group is indexing some of it and/or it is not available online/full-text). 
 
Here is the link to their announcement:
 
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/bha/
 
So, to reiterate, after March 31 the BHA is no more. We're keeping an eye on the situation to see if there's a last minute reprieve but we should all assume and plan to no longer have this important resource available.
 

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