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The International Council on Archives (ICA) is pleased to introduce Frans Smit and Bethany Anderson as the next Editors-in-Chief of Comma: International Journal on Archives. Smit, senior inspector at the Information and Heritage Inspectorate of the Netherlands, and Anderson, assistant professor and Natural and Applied Sciences Archivist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), will initially serve a four-year term together beginning in October 2021. Comma, established in 2000 as the successor to the long-standing IC

If you have not received your or your institution’s hard-copy issue of Comma 2019/1 and would like it to be sent to you again, please let us know before 15 March 2021 by sending us your membership number, full name and postal address at members@ica.org so that we can inform our publisher. 

Comma is the chief serial publication of the International Council on Archives, and a key benefit for ICA members. Its scope is the professional administration  and development of archives and archivists worldwide. Read more...

The next issue of Comma (2018:1-2) is a bumper special issue focusing on the work and impact of  archivists and archives  in university and research institutes   

Directed by Amy Tector, Manager on Online Content and Copyright at Library and Archives Canada, and Member of the Comma Editorial Board, Comma 2017-2 is a Miscellany issue. Follow this link to authentify yourself as a member of ICA on the Liverpool University Press website and read this issue of Comma

Did you contribute to ICA Yaoundé 2018? Write an article for Comma and reach archivists around the world! Submissions are now invited for an open issue, to be published late in 2019. The deadline for submission of the final article is 30 May  2019 (23:59:59 Liverpool Time).

The next issue of Comma (2017:1), a special issue based around the Section of Archives of Literature and Art (ICA-SLA) is due to be circulated to members, and will be available online, during October. Since its reconstitution in 2010,  SLA has worked to ensure that its representation of literary archives is a truly global one, and the special issue will include contributions which, geographically, range from Namibia to Russia, and from Finland to Brazil.