'This issue will be the last issue of Archives & Manuscripts published by Taylor & Francis. After extensive discussions and consultation with its members, the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) has decided to move towards open access publishing. The next issues will use the same platform as the Archives & Manuscripts 1955–2011 Online Archive at https://publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa. Author Guidelines are available from https://publications.archivists.org.au/index.php/asa/guidelines. Using a new open access platform will be the beginning of a new era for A&M, but also a return to a long and proud history of self-publishing, which saw the publication of seminal texts that influenced archival theory and practice in Australia and around the world.' (Introduction)
'Archives are an integral component in the formation of a nation’s historical narratives. They are both repositories and sources of a nation’s evidence of events. Institutional archives have been striving to incorporate equity and social justice for Indigenous peoples but their practice is still heavily skewed to colonists’ perspectives. In this article, the author uses critical race theory to examine the social media narratives of Australia’s institutional archives during National Reconciliation Week, coinciding with the 2020 Black Lives Matter uprising. She uses the concept of counter-narrative to demonstrate the gaps between narratives about Indigenous peoples and those by Indigenous peoples in contemporary archival narratives as portrayed in social media. She argues that to truly achieve equity and social justice for Indigenous peoples, archives must engage with Indigenous counter-narratives in their collecting and exhibiting practices and bring the institutional and Indigenous narratives closer together.' (Publication abstract)
