The Editorial Board of OJNI would like to welcome you to the first edition. We hope this is the first of many editions you will receive! The birth of this e-journal represents the culmination of numerous hours of cyberspacial labor and collaboration. We have perservered through communication glitches, hard drive crashes, countless modem hang-ups, network time-outs, computer system conflicts, disappearing e-mail, Netscape-PC interface disturbances, and the Internet grinch surfacing at the least opportune times. Neverthless, we survived the cyberbirth ordeal, and here is our humble beginnings.

A combination of being a new e-journal and electronic scholarly publishing being a new frontier is attributed to why we received few articles. However, the number of articles we are receiving is increasing, as is the number of people subscribing to the OJNI every day. To date, 761 people from 24 countries have subscribed. This is very exciting for all of us affiliated with the OJNI.

The OJNI will provide nurses with an electronic format to share findings, experience, perceptions, knowledge, and wisdom with nursing colleagues involved in all facets of nursing informatics.

The OJNI wants to exploit the power of cyberspace in order to create an electronic nursing informatics community that provides both virtually accessible and timely information about nursing informatics globally.

The OJNI will further enhance the speed of cybercommunications through an expedited editorial process that provides rapid turnaround and publication times.

The OJNI recognizes the importance of both the academic and practice-based perspectives in nursing informatics. Therefore, article submissions will be encouraged from all facets of nursing informatics.

The OJNI is committed to scholarly excellence. Thus, the Journal will maintain a high standard for peer-review, and when necessary, the editorial staff will attempt to provide assistance to authors as a means of eliciting high quality manuscripts suitable for publication.

Dr. Renee Eggers
cattales@cisnet.com

Consultants
Zane Berge PhD
Mauri Collins

Associate Editors
Maureen Allen MPH, RN-C
meast1@pop.pitt.edu

Betty Chang DNSc, RN, FNP, FAAN
bchang@sonnet.ucla.edu

Sheila Englebardt PhD, RN, CNA
sengleba.uncson@mhs.unc.edu

Anne Lyness PhD, MLS, MPH, RN
all@med.pitt.edu

Rosalee Seymour EdD, RN
seymourr@nursserv.east-tenn-st.edu

Reviewers:

Gershon Bergeisen MD
M. E. Bester PhD
Bill Burt MSN, RN
Peter Cleasby RN, MN(Hons), MStudEd, BA
Dan Coble MSN, RN
Moya Conrick MClEd, RN
Barbara Cornett PhD, RN
Carol Green-Nigro PhD, ANRP
Maria Hendrickson MSN, RN, MSCS Judi Hertz PhD, RN
Sharon Holmes BS, RN
Barbara Ihrke MSN, RN
Carole Kenner RNC, DNS, FAAN
Bonnie McGuire BS, RN
Victoria Schirm PhD, RN, CS
Liz Palena BS, RN
Barbara Vandecastle MSN, RN
Bruce Wilson PhD, RN