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
Orbis Africa Journal has launched a digital edition in collaboration with Exact Editions.
Published by the Diasporic African Press, the journal aims to be a publishing platform that fosters discussion about the African world and its diasporas.
Taking a interdisciplinary approach, Orbis Africa Journal looks at how the intellectual legacy of Africa deeply intersects with how the world functions today — exploring history, philosophy, art, archaeology, anthropology, literature and art in an effort to understand this.
The digital edition seeks … 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
The Canadian avant-garde music magazine Musicworks has enhanced its digital archive on the Exact Editions platform by extending issues back from 2003 to 1989, providing subscribers with fourteen years of rich additional content. Musicworks’ extended digital archive will be available to both individual and institutional subscribers through the Exact Editions digital platform. As the ‘Canadian Journal of Sound Exploration’, Musicworks’ is an important title in Canadian libraries, and subscribing libraries can now access an even more extensive and thorough archive … Keep Reading
The Wire magazine is an iconic title amongst the eclectic archive of music journalism on the Exact Editions platform. First published in 1982 and monthly thereafter, the subversive and proudly independent music magazine covers the global alternative, underground and experimental music scene. Co-founded by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray, it began as a revolt against its more conventional and conservative competitors at the time, namely Jazz Journal, and soon established itself as a more ‘progressive’ alternative, … Keep Reading
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