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Overview
The Benezit Dictionary of Artists is now available online for the first time via Oxford Art Online. With nearly 170,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and featuring regular updates, Benezit is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. Grove Art Online covers all aspects of the visual arts from prehistory to the present day, from art and architecture to ceramics and photography. It gives online access to the text of over 50,000 articles from the 34 volume Dictionary of Art, the Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, and the Oxford Companion to Western Art.
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Grove Art Online supports federated searching using standard HTTP requests. The Z39.50 protocol is not supported.
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Simple and advanced searching is available, including full text, biographies, bibliographies, links, contributors, and work lists.
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Users can print and email articles.
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Grove Art Online is designed to meet level 1 of the WAI accessibility standard and Section 508 (1998 amendments) of the US Rehabilitation Act 1973.
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