About a year ago we were appointed as the new editors of DSQ. It has been an interesting journey, but as we reflect on the past year, we take pride in some of the goals we set for ourselves being accomplished.

We wanted DSQ to become a journal that has a structured anonymous peer review process, and that has been accomplished. Many of you who are SDS members have graciously acted as peer reviewers on more than one occasion. And authors, even those who are asked to do major revisions on their papers, seemed pleased with the process. The authors are happy to have thoughtful critiques of their work so they can improve their scholarly efforts. We see the peer review process as a mentoring one, in which scholarly feedback helps nurture everyone working in the area of disability studies. After a year, most papers listed in the General Papers section of each issue of DSQ have gone through the peer review process.

To help support the journal financially, we wanted it to take advertising. We have a few ads and are continuing to solicit organizations, especially book publishers that have disability studies titles, to advertise with us. In an effort to promote DSQ, we have also "traded" advertisements with other media. A DSQ ad appears on the Ability Magazine web site and a print ad will appear in Sign Language Studies. But we need your help as well. Please let us of know of your contacts within the disability studies world that might assist us in getting more advertising.

Finally, as we mentioned last issue, DSQ is going to return to its former status as a benefit of Society for Disability Studies membership. A computer programmer has been hired and the DSQ web site will be constructed as a password protect site, with the content of each issue only available to SDS members. We hope this will take place with the Winter 2005 issue. However, to add more general access to DSQ, we are hoping the journal soon will be included in EBSCO's Academic Search database, which is available in academic libraries throughout the United States.

As editors, we are committed to continuing the DSQ practice of having theme sections devoted to disability studies areas of significance. This issue is about Disability Studies in health care professional education. (Co-editor Corinne Kirchner was involved in developing this theme section so you can read more of her comments in the Guest Editor's letter).

We are also pleased with the growth of our reviews section thanks to the hard work of our review editors, Katie LeBesco and Linda Long. The range of reviews is a wonderful mix, everything from Hollywood films to Deaf history books to recent fiction.

DSQ also is publishing a variety of disability studies "voices" in its commentary, fiction, and poetry sections. We encourage all DSQ readers to enjoy these high quality endeavors, and we welcome new contributions from any of our readers.

Beth Haller & Corinne Kirchner

Co-Editors, DSQ