FAMILY COURT REVIEW DEVELOPMENTS

• Published date: 01 January 2005
• Author: Andrew Schepard
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-1617.2005.00001.x
• Date: 01 January 2005

FAMILY COURT REVIEW, Vol. 43 No. 1, January 2005 1–5

© 2005 Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.Oxford, UKFCREFamily Court Review1531-2445© Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, 2004431

EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Schepard /

EDITORIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

FAMILY COURT REVIEW

FAMILY COURT REVIEW

DEVELOPMENTS

January 2005

This issue is a landmark in the continuing evolution of

Family Court Review

. I want to

take this opportunity to acquaint readers with developments at their publication in this

separate column, which will be followed by more traditional Editorial Notes and Guest

Editorial Notes devoted to this particular issue.

BLACKWELL PUBLISHING

This is the first issue of

FCR

published by Blackwell Publications. Blackwell is the lead-

ing publisher of journals for learned societies in the world. It publishes over 700 journals

in partnership with more than 550 academic and professional societies. More information

about Blackwell can be found at www.blackwellpublishing.com.

Blackwell was selected as

FCR

’s publisher through a competitive process that took

about eighteen months. Several respected journal publishers submitted proposals to AFCC

which were evaluated by a Committee of the AFCC Board of Directors consisting of Mary

Ferriter, Olga Batsedis, last year’s student managing editor, Peter Salem, AFCC’s Executive

Director, and myself. We were ably assisted by the advice and counsel of Arline Rotman

and Lisa Spar, a Hofstra Law School Librarian and an expert on the burgeoning world of

electronic publication and resources. We could not have accomplished this process without

the extensive help and counsel the AFCC Board Committee members and our consultants

provided.

The Committee recommended to the AFCC Board that it choose Blackwell to publish

FCR

for many reasons. Blackwell has impressive marketing and editorial expertise and

experience with interdisciplinary journals (it publishes, for example, the

Negotiation

Journal

of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School and Cornell Law School’s

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies

). Blackwell will provide

FCR

readers with electronic

access to past and present articles.

Most importantly, the people at Blackwell are excited about the mission of

FCR

and

AFCC. Their goal is to give

FCR

the broadest possible audience around the world. We

welcome the opportunity to work with them to do so. The student staff and I thank

Otis Dean of Blackwell and his colleagues for making this major publishing transition as

seamless as possible.

NEW COVER

The first change readers will notice in this new era for

FCR

is its new cover and “look.”

AFCC redesigned its logo. We thus needed to redesign

FCR

’s cover. We worked with a