Measuring Quality in Art History – January 2011

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. read more ...

ERIH and Art History – November 2009

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) read more ...

Copyright – December 2008

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. read more ...