Dear Colleagues, The note for the new Journal of Research Practice went out in two versions. Only one highlighted the journal URL at http://jrp.icaap.org/ Corrected notice below. Yours, Ken Friedman New Trans-disciplinary Journal Launched Journal of Research Practice (JRP) DP Dash, PhD Xavier Institute of Management Xavier Square Bhubaneswar 751013 INDIA Email: professor_dash@yahoo.co.uk Homepage: http://www.ximb.ac.in/~dpdash/ A diverse group of academic scholars, research students, and research-inclined professionals have come together to launch a new peer-reviewed electronic journal to supplement various initiatives to build research capacities around the world. The inaugural issue of the Journal of Research Practice: Innovations and Challenges in Multiple Domains (JRP) is available at http://jrp.icaap.org/ in an Open Access mode, i.e., full-text access is available to everyone, free of charge. The journal seeks to (a) connect research-inclined persons working in different disciplinary, institutional, and practical contexts and (b) through this, extend the practice of research to progressively newer territories. Both these aims are expected to facilitate the wider purposes of promoting research education around the world and innovative forms of research in different socially relevant areas. JRP is published by the International Consortium for the Advancement in Academic Publication, ICAAP, which is a research and development organisation devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly communication. ICAAP is a prominent facilitator of the Open Access movement today. It is located at Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta. Free access to JRP has been made possible through institutional sponsorship. The current sponsors of the journal are: Center for Science in Society, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA Lugano Summer School of Systems Design, University of Italian Switzerland, SWITZERLAND Nokia Research Center, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, CHILE Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, INDIA The editorial board comprises two editors, supported by a multidisciplinary team. The editors are: DP Dash (the author of this article) and Héctor R. Ponce (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Administración y Economía, Santiago, CHILE). The editorial team is fairly international in character, representing countries such as Australia, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, India, Israel, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, UK, and USA. Here is a list of the articles published in the inaugural issue (Volume 1, Issue 1, 2005); these articles are available freely on the JRP Web site: Journey of Research Practice (DP Dash and Héctor R. Ponce) Revisiting Science in Culture: Science as Story Telling and Story Revising (Paul Grobstein) The Acquisition of High Quality Experience (Gerard de Zeeuw) "Why Did We Have the Partition?" The Making of a Research Interest (Satish Saberwal) Digital Video as Research Practice: Methodology for the Millennium (Wesley Shrum, Ricardo Duque, and Timothy Brown) Playful Collaborative Exploration: New Research Practice in Participatory Design (Martin Johansson and Per Linde) Investigating the Research Approaches for Examining Technology Adoption Issues (Jyoti Choudrie and Yogesh Kumar Dwivedi) On Borges' Amnesia and Talmudic Understanding: Reviving Ancient Traditions in Re-Search (Zvi Bekerman and Yair Neuman) Logic of Leadership Research: A Reflective Review of Geeks & Geezers by Bennis and Thomas (DP Dash) Can Nature Teach us Good Research Practice? A Critical Look at Frederic Vester's Bio-Cybernetic Systems Approach (Werner Ulrich) The optimistic vision of this journal is presented in the editorial article by Dash and Ponce: The title of this journal may look surprising to some readers. There may even be a legitimate doubt as to whether the journal would take-off at all, the title being so broad and unspecific. On the contrary, to be more optimistic, the journal could meet a long-felt need, i.e., that of bringing researchers, and various forms of organised inquiry, into fruitful connections with each other, without the restrictions imposed by formal disciplinary boundaries. This whole enterprise is a testimony to the wonders of the digital communication technology that has promoted cooperation at such a global scale. Every research-oriented individual and institution, and every research student working anywhere in the world is invited to explore "fruitful connections" with this initiative.