Art-DOK - Digital Repository Art History is the full-text server of the Virtual Library of Art History, arthistoricum.net and is made available by the University Library of Heidelberg. It offers members of the academic community worldwide the opportunity to publish their texts in electronic format on the internet at no charge. All kinds of publications (like monographs, articles, lectures) in the fields of Art History can be stored on "Art-DOK". The standard of these publications should not fall below that of traditional printed ones. The documents will be stored and their long-term availability guaranteed by using standardized addresses and metadata. They are accessible through the German union catalogues and search machines, too.


The website "Was gestatten Verlage bei der Selbstarchivierung im Open Access?" delivers information if a publishing house permits to publish articles already published (postprints) or to publish preprints as a parallel version on ART-Dok.