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This issue is devoted to articles written primarily by individual ICA members.  The articles represent a cross-section of current professional concerns, addressed from a wide range of geographical perspectives.  

  The subject of improved access to archival information has been debated increasingly over the past years, not the least in numerous presentations held at ICA´s conferences. Archives all across the world are marketing their collections in a new way, to create an interest in them. These efforts are often initiated by political decisions. Archives are undergoing great changes, due to new technologies and trends in society, but also because of new needs and demands from their users.

This issue of COMMA intends to show the commonalities and differences in the functions, characteristics and structure of local, municipal and territorial archives in different countries, and how these relate to their political and institutional organization.