Recent events suggest that open access has gained new momentum in the humanities, but the slow and uneven development of open-access initiatives in humanist fields continues to hinder the consolidation of efforts across the university. Although various studies have traced the general origins of the humanities’ reticence to embrace open access, few have actually considered the scholarly practices and disciplinary priorities that shape a discipline’s adoption of its principles. This article examines the emergence, potential and actualized, of open access in art history. Part case study, part conceptual mapping, the discussion is framed within the context of three interlocking dynamics: the present state of academic publishing in art history; the dominance of the journal and self-archiving repository within open-access models of scholarly production; and the unique roles played by copyright and permissions in art historical scholarship. It is hoped that tracing the discipline-specifi c confi guration of research provides a first step toward both investigating the identity that open access might assume within the humanities, from discipline to discipline, and explaining how and why it might allow scholars to better serve themselves and their audiences. Le mouvement en faveur de l’acces libre, si l’on en croit divers evenements recents, semble voir son progres s’accelerer dans les sciences humaines. Cependant, le developpement des initiatives soutenant l’acces libre dans les disciplines humanistes continue d’etre lent et inegal tout en retardant la consolidation des efforts panuniversitaires. Certaines etudes ont bien identifie les origines generales des reticences exprimees par les humanistes a l’egard de l’acces libre, mais peu se sont penchees sur les pratiques de la recherche et les priorites qui informent le processus d’adoption l’acces libre par une discipline particuliere. Cet article etudie comment l’histoire de l’art a vu l’acces libre emerger d’abord comme une potentialite pour en devenir une realite. D’une part, etude de cas, d’autre part, problematisation theorique, cet article structure son argument autour de trois dynamiques inter-reliees : l’etat present de la publication savante en histoire de l’art ; le role dominant, dans les modeles de production associes a l’acces libre, de la revue savante et des archives ouvertes avec auto-archivage ; et, les roles specifi ques joues par les questions de droits d’auteur et de permissions en histoire de l’art. En retracant les contours specifi ques de la recherche dans une discipline donnee, cet auteur espere ouvrir une piste permettant de comprendre quelle forme identifi able l’acces libre pourrait adopter dans le contexte des humanites, discipline par discipline. De cette facon, il devrait etre possible d’expliquer comment les chercheurs dans ces domaines pourraient, grâce a l’acces libre, mieux s’entraider et mieux servir leurs lecteurs.
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