VISUAL RESOURCES

AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DOCUMENTATION

Published By: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Frequency: 4 issues per year
Print ISSN: 0197-3762
Online ISSN: 1477-2809

Aims & Scope

Editors

Christine L. Sundt, Editor
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon

Helene E. Roberts, Senior Editor
(1931-2008)

Helen Ronan, Review Editor
Acton, Massachusetts

Murtha Baca, News Editor
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California

Founding Editor - Patricia Walsh

Editorial Advisory Board

Robert A. Baron, Arts Information Consultant, New Rochelle, New York

Mary Bergstein, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Deidre Brown, University of Auckland, New Zealand

William C. Brumfield, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana

Eleanor Fink, World Bank, Washington, DC

Roy Flukinger, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, Fototeca Berenson, Italy

Colum Hourihane, Princeton Index of Christian Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Amalyah Keshet, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

Patricia Mainardi, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Ferris Olin, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers

Claudio de Polo Saibanti, Fratelli Alinari, Italy

Richard Rinehart, University of California, Berkeley

Kathryn Rudy, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands

Rachel Stuhlman, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York

John Sunderland, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Joye Volker, National Gallery of Australia

Gretchen Wagner, ARTstor, New York

Renate Wiedenhoeft, Saskia Ltd., Freeport, Maine

Visual Resources is proudly classified as a peer-reviewed journal in the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), ARTBibliographies Modern, the Art Index and others. The peer-review process, as employed by the Editors, is as follows:

VR recognizes three classes of articles among those published in the journal: 1) Peer-reviewed articles; 2) Editors’ Choice articles; and 3) Board-approved papers and special issues.

1. Peer-reviewed Articles
Articles received without being solicited or commissioned are subjected to a double-blind review process that involves at least two readers who have demonstrated in writing or by reputation to have expertise in the main content of the article. The decisions returned by the readers to the Editors are then carefully evaluated and the final decision to accept or reject the article is ultimately determined by the Editors.

2. Editors’ Choice Articles
Articles solicited or commissioned by the Editors are typically not subjected to the double-blind review process but they are accepted or rejected based on the judgment of the Editors with evaluation of outside experts as requested by the Editors. The author(s) of a commissioned article may be revealed to the outside expert reader(s) who may be asked to validate facts or to suggest relevant additions or changes but who are not responsible for or required to submit a verdict on publication.

3. Board-approved Papers and Special Issues
A group of articles that comprise a “Special Issue” is accepted or rejected by sanction or recommendation of the VR Editorial Advisory Board upon recommendation by the Editors rather than by double-blind peer review.

The justification for accepting commissioned articles and Special Issue groups of articles without the traditional peer-review process is that 1) articles solicited or commissioned are done so from experts in the field whose work is already well known in the literature and highly regarded among their peers; and 2) articles previously assembled under a topic as is the case with a Special Issue, have already been subjected to peer review during their initial selection and presentation at conference sessions or during the assembly process by the Guest Editor. Special Issue proposals, along with a description of the circumstances that brought the group together under the Guest Editor, are circulated among the Editorial Advisory Board for comment and approval prior to final acceptance.

Reviews of books, electronic resources, conferences, and the like are not peer-reviewed as they are commissioned from experts by the Review Editor.

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Helene E. Roberts, Senior Editor