Modern Times

The new year is one of exciting changes for JAPA. The American Psychoanalytic Association has partnered with our new publisher, Sage Publications, to bring JAPA subscribers the best in electronic publishing, while maintaining the high quality we have come to expect in the print edition. Online subscription is now available. Subscribers will eventually have access to all JAPA content back to our 1953 beginnings. The new online submission feature will make it easier for authors to submit and track their manuscripts, and will help streamline our Editorial Office operations. In addition, Sage's online publish-before-print option will allow papers to be published expeditiously, doing away with the sometimes lengthy wait for print publication. This new venture is of great benefit to JAPA authors, subscribers, and staff, as it brings speed, modernity, and connectivity to our slow-paced and often solitary work. Sitting in a comfortable armchair with our glossy, colorful print issue will now be complemented by access to cyberspace participation in the modern world of electronic scholarship. I know that there are pertinent concerns about speed and change. I am reminded of John Steinbeck on the then mushrooming interstate highway system. “You will shortly be able to get anywhere in the country without ever seeing anything!” We analysts will now have choices, with only ourselves to blame. It is really a life-cycle issue: “When are we going to be there? Where have we been?” JAPA readers will now have it all—a problem perhaps, but one best left for another day.

While we are very pleased with our new publishing arrangement, we are sad to say good-bye to Lawrence Schwartz, our former production editor. We thank him for his years of extraordinary dedication to JAPA—we will miss him greatly. We also thank Tamar Schwartz for all her help over the years.

We also say good-bye and thank you to another group of exceptional editorial readers who did prodigious amounts of wo