We would like to remind members that UMRA is a co-sponsor with the University of Minnesota Libraries of the Journal of Opinions, Ideas and Essays (JOIE). This online journal publishes a wide range of topics by authors from the University family of faculty, professional administrators, and retirees.

Readership of the journal is worldwide. Articles are accessible to anyone via a topic web search with browsers such as Google. To date, articles from JOIE have been downloaded over 800 times by readers from 61 countries on every continent except the Antarctic.

You may wish to consider JOIE as an outlet for a pet project you have been thinking of publishing. You can learn more about JOIE and sample its articles by going to its website: pubs.lib.umn.edu/joie/

— Bud Clawson, JOIE Editor-in-Chief