The purpose of RIHA, the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art, founded 1998 in Paris, is to promote education and research in art history and related disciplines, to intensify cooperation between the institutes by facilitating the flow of information on scientific and administrative activities as well as the exchange of research findings, and to encourage the institutes to undertake joint projects.


In April 2010, RIHA launched RIHA Journal, an online journal featuring new research articles in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

RIHA Journal - Journal of the International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art

 
 

RIHA Resolutions: Measuring Quality (2011), ERIH (2009) and Copyright (2008)

Measuring Quality in Art History

Reaching far beyond the personal level, evaluation today rules in almost every aspect of research, from projects and library activities to the performance of whole institutes. This resolution is the outcome of the deliberations of the Annual Assemblies of RIHA held in Brussels (2010) and Prague (2011), and developed in the course of a workshop dedicated to the topic, held at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in June 2011. The resolution was agreed unanimously at the RIHA Annual Assembly, Prague, 11-12 November, 2011, by the directors and representatives of the RIHA institutes.

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ERIH and Art History

RIHA sharply criticizes the clandestine way in which the European Science Foundation (ESF) has developed and monitored the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) since 2001, and is extremely concerned about its present and future application (see: http://www.esf.org/research-areas/humanities/erih-european-reference-index-for-the-humanities.html

 

PDF  ERIH and Art History

 

 

Copyright

RIHA believes that neither copyright nor licensing rules should inhibit the development and diffusion of original scholarly research, regardless of the way in which it is published or otherwise disseminated. The RIHA Resolution on Copyright was agreed on at the General Assembly, Rome, 8 November 2008, and posted 1 December 2008.

 

PDF  Resolution on Copyright