Exact Editions specialises in making, maintaining and completing digital archives for magazines. Every magazine worthy of the classification ‘periodical’ will have a ‘first issue’ — the concept only becomes problematic or fuzzy when a magazine changes its shape, name or remit in radical ways so that it is hard to determine where/when/whether the ‘first’ issue appeared. Exact Editions’ doctrine holds that archives should, if possible, include the first issue and all subsequently published issues, and if the archive is complete … Keep Reading
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Exact Editions has worked with Magazines Canada to present a showcase of 60 magazine issues from their publisher members. The showcase was publicised today and will be open until 1 April 2027. Our joint aim was to collect and demonstrate a digital collection celebrating Canada’s vibrant and varying magazine publishing industry. The collection is not permanent but it will be a reliable and shareable magazine landmark for the year in which it is running. All the issues are complete, open, … Keep Reading
The Illustrated War News was launched soon after the start of the first World War and published regular weekly issues from 1914–18. Its 238 issues give us a vivid, illustrated, patriotic, and in places sensational account of the Great War. The periodical was a subsidiary publication from the Illustrated London News publishing company. And an advertisement in the opening page of the junior periodical proclaimed:
Were the editors and publishers of … Keep Reading
Scientific and technical periodicals were the first type of printed publication to be effectively digitised en masse. The roots of this tecnologisation of the periodical literature grew before the widesperead use of personal computers. MEDLARSand the Science Citation Index started in 1964 and although this early surge of database activity focussed on abstracts and indexing, by the time the web was invented 33 years ago, many scientific periodicals were well on the … Keep Reading
Digital magazine archives are much more future-oriented than they are backwards-looking. They are, of course both retrospective incorporating previously published issues in a searchable corpus, but they should also be prospective, since they need to be databased and accessible in such a way that the most recent issue and all previous issues are immediately and universally available to subscribers. So we should stop thinking about magazine archives as cabinets … Keep Reading