The American Philosophical Association is the largest learned society for professional philosophers and for decades it has organised professional gatherings for its members through three annual conferences: the Eastern division in early January, and in February and April for the Central and Pacific divisions. These events usually take place over a long weekend based around one or more hotels in cities with good transport connections and conference facilities. In common with other learned societies, the APA realised in the course … Keep Reading
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Exact Editions introduced a new feature for magazine publishers in 2019: Reading Rooms. The ability to create time-limited, short term, open access to an issue of a magazine or its whole archive (see here for an explanation of how to use Reading Rooms with social media). The facility is now available to book publishers using Exact Editions and in this post we give some guidance as to how the toolset can be used with books. Each book on the platform … Keep Reading
Taking place on the 14th of July 1789, the Storming of the Bastille was a flashpoint moment of the French Revolution. After the Fête de la Fédération celebrated the unity of the French people one year later, Bastille Day has been celebrated on July 14th ever since.
To commemorate the occasion, we’ve delved through the archived content hosted on the Exact Editions platform to learn more about Bastille Day, the French Revolution and its importance to French history and culture.… Keep Reading
Because the Exact Editions platform is a streaming solution rather than downloads based, it has been feasible to develop a flexible way for magazines to provide time-limited access to individual issues or the complete magazine archive. Short-term ‘trial’ access to the complete archive is proving to be a compelling way to promote specialist magazines to libraries.
The Book Collector is a recent addition to the Exact Editions platform. Obviously this magazine is of much interest to libraries as well as … Keep Reading
Carcanet the Manchester-based poetry and literature publisher have used their Reading Rooms account at Exact Editions to set up a short term free virtual collection of nine books for Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair. The books are still fully readable and browsable for a few more days from this link http://bit.ly/CarcanetERBF and I encourage you to take a look.
Carcanet’s books are always well designed and as you can see they have striking … Keep Reading
