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US Independence Day: Archive Perspectives

On July 4, 2025

Every year on the 4th of July, the United States celebrates its Independence Day with colourful parades, sizzling barbecues and fireworks. This national holiday commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when the thirteen American colonies officially broke away from British rule. 

Read on to discover three articles and poems from archives of magazines hosted on the Exact Editions platform that touch on American history and the July 4th celebrations themselves. 

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The TLS: ‘Unbridled … Keep Reading

Periodicals tell us a lot about Time

On June 30, 2025

The Autocar archive in the 1930’s

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

Obsidian Sells Digital Subscriptions to Libraries through Exact Editions

On June 30, 2025

Literature departments and libraries at universities around the world can now subscribe to the complete digital archive and ongoing issues of Obsidian through the Exact Editions platform. The archive, which dates back to 1975, is accessible across web, iOS and Android devices.

Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora cultivates Black imagination and innovation, supporting Black, African, and Africa Diaspora creative globally. Founded in 1975 at SUNY Fredonia by the poet, scholar and legendary champion of African-American culture Alvin … Keep Reading

New Magazine Exploring African Diaspora Launches Digital Edition

On June 27, 2025

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

Magazine Archives are Future-proof

On May 28, 2025

Crafts archive of 50+ years a popular title for Perpetual Access

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

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