Front Matter (Opening Essay: eJournal of Public Affairs, Volume 4, Issue 3)

This issue completes the fourth volume of the eJournal of Public Affairs and the second issue published on the new eJournal website. The new platform uses Open Journal Systems (OJS) to integrate the process of author submission, peer review, copyediting, layout, and publication. The system works so well that I can usually give authors a publication decision within 45 days of submission.

While OJS facilitates many aspects of publication, moving from a “flat” website to dynamic journaling software has not been simple. We previously published in both HTML format and PDF. We will now publish articles in PDF only, in a layout that we hope produces readable onscreen and print text. We will continue to publish media submissions in HTML. Also, we are reformatting our archive—a tedious process—to reflect our new publication style sheet.