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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

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

Substack may turn out to be the best new digital institution for journalism and journalists for this decade. It hasn’t gone sour like Twitter, it has reached a degree of commercial take-off which seems still to be eluding Medium, and it has attracted lots of great journalists and commentators. Arguably, it has been better for journalists than for journalism per se. I say this because most of the best writers on Substack have learned their stylistic, reportage, editing skills … Keep Reading