Abstract
During 2006 the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists put out to tender the publishing contract for this journal. Taylor & Francis have been offered the publishing contract for the next 5 years. The Editorial Board will look forward to working with our new publishers in 2007 and future years.
With a new publisher further changes can be expected, including changing the way that papers will be referenced [1, 2]. Authors should thus check the instructions to authors. From this year we will move to 12 issues. Subscribers should receive their monthly issue earlier in each month than has been usual in recent years.
It is appropriate at this time of transition to thank Blackwell for their contributions to the growth and development of the Journal over the past 11 years. In 1996 when Blackwell began publishing our journal the number of issues increased from four to six per year, with 960 editorial pages. 1998 saw the advent of electronic publishing and College Fellows had access to the Journal electronically. In 2004 the number of issues increased from six to 10 per year, with 1040 editorial pages. Also in 2004, web-based submissions using Manuscript Central were introduced! In 2001 our impact factor was 0.86, it hovered around 1.3 for 3 years, and increased to 1.6 in 2005. Our long-term goal for the impact factor to be greater than 4.0 continues.