Open Access
& The Arts
Detail of design for Saint Gobnait window in Honan Chapel, Cork
City, Ireland. Pencil, pen and inks, and watercolor on board. Harry
Clarke, 1914. Collection of the Rakow Library, The Corning Museum of
Glass. via
Wikimedia.
🔓 Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range
of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free
of cost or other access barriers. Historically, this has centered mainly
on print-based academic journals.
Read more about OA on Wikipedia.
🎨 In addition to scholarly publishing, OA principles can be
applied to the arts! There are many OA images to be discovered, shared,
reused and altered in online repositories. The following is a list of my
favourite OA collections and repositories in the arts:
- Creative Commons
- Europeana
- Rijksmuseum
- Smithsonian Open Access
- The Art Institute of Chicago
- The MET
- The National Gallery of Art, D.C
- Wikimedia Commons
🔍 Did you know that Saint Gobnait is the patron saint of beekeepers? Learn more about her here!