Launching in March 2023, Bloomsbury Visual Arts is a new interdisciplinary hub that will bring Bloomsbury’s leading visual arts digital resources together into one cross-searchable platform.

Collections spanning textbooks, reference, primary material, monographs and multimedia will provide an exceptionally rich study and research environment. On launch, the Bloomsbury Visual Arts hub will comprise Bloomsbury Design Library, Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, and Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism.

The hub will also be home to a new, ground-breaking digital resource: Bloomsbury Art Markets, a comprehensive international guide to art galleries, auction houses, art fairs, dealers, and agents from Europe and North America since 1900. Sign up to the Art Markets mailing list to learn more about it.

Please get in touch if you would like more information:

Americas: OnlineSalesUS@bloomsbury.com

UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia: OnlineSalesUK@bloomsbury.com

Australia and New Zealand: OnlineSalesANZ@bloomsbury.com

Benefits for Research and Learning

For users

• Discover interdisciplinary content across closely connected fields seamlessly - ideal for research and learning within related courses or modules

• Explore landing pages for each individual resource, or curated thematic pages based on popular searches and course titles, all underpinned by the overarching taxonomy

• Search and navigate by common themes such as artistic movements spanning architecture, interiors, visual culture and craft

• Harness learning resources including subject guides, lesson plans and bibliographic guides to support teaching and study within and across collections

For administrators
• Purchase collections individually, and users will only see content on the hub to which they have access via their library

• Take advantage of a wide range of upcoming content sets (2023/24) to support delivery of courses at your institution:

Architecture
Bloomsbury Architecture Library, Architectural Design and Practice, Vernacular Architecture Reference Collection, Global Encyclopedia of Women in Architecture

Applied Visual Arts and Design
Applied Gaming, Animation Practice, Photography, Design Studies, Ceramics, Printmaking and more

Frequently Asked Questions 

For users and administrators of:

• Bloomsbury Design Library (BDL)

• Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts (BAVA)

• Bloomsbury International Encyclopedia of Surrealism (BIES)

What will happen to our access to BDL/ BAVA/ BIES? Will redirects be set up?

If your institution has purchased or subscribed to BDL/ BAVA/ BIES, you will still have access to that content – the new home for these collections will now be bloomsburyvisualarts.com.

In order to support customers who have bookmarked the current URLs, for example in library catalogue systems or in reading lists, as well as search engines and discovery and indexing databases, we have set up URL redirects for all pages.

This will mean that links to content pages (e.g. to articles, books, cases, museums and exhibitions) and also links to Research and Learning resources redirect to the corresponding page on the new Bloomsbury Visual Arts site.

Please note the redirects will live in our platforms indefinitely. DOIs will continue to point to the new platform too. This means that if you are using our MARC records (which include DOI URLs), you need not be concerned about the URLs. If you are using your own MARC records or are bookmarking pages using the OLD platform URLs, you are covered by the redirects.

Will there be any changes to usage statistics (COUNTER reports)?

When BDL/ BAVA/ BIES become part of the main Bloomsbury Visual Arts (BVA) site, they will no longer have their own URL/domain for COUNTER purposes. They will instead be databases within Bloomsbury Visual Arts on the COUNTER 5 Database reports in future.

All BDL/ BAVA/ BIES COUNTER usage in future will come via the BVA COUNTER API key and any COUNTER 5 usage prior to the migration will be available under a separate BDL/ BAVA/ BIES site entry.

Are institutions able to renew their subscription to BDL/ BAVA/ BIES?

Yes, BDL/ BAVA/ BIES will still be available to purchase via subscription or perpetual access basis after it has migrated to the main Bloomsbury Visual Arts hub.

What will happen to our personal accounts?

Users will still be able to log into their personal accounts on Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Saved content items in personal accounts will not be retained when BDL/ BAVA/ BIES move over to Bloomsbury Visual Arts – other than if those links were previously saved as bookmarks in their browser.

Saved search items will not be retained when BDL/ BAVA/ BIES move over to Bloomsbury Visual Arts. Search results will be different on the new platform, as users will be able to see search results from multiple products if they would like.

If you have any questions about the new site, please get in touch with your local representative:

Americas: OnlineSalesUS@Bloomsbury.com
UK and Rest of World: OnlineSalesUK@Bloomsbury.com
Australia and New Zealand: OnlineSalesANZ@Bloomsbury.com