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Journal of Paleontology

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FROM THE EDITORS' DESKS

With this issue, we have nearly completed our first year as the new editors of the Journal of Paleontology. When we assumed editorship at last year's GSA Meeting, we inherited a nine-issue (18-month) backlog of papers that were awaiting publication. Allowing such a backlog to grow is out of the question. Maintaining it is unacceptable. Reducing the time between final acceptance and publication is our first priority as editors.

To that end, we have already taken steps to reduce the backlog by mechanical means.

• You will have noticed that much of the Systematic Paleontology section is now published in a reduced font size.
  
• We also have been requesting permission from authors to place more information from several papers into our online Supplemental Data Archive accessible through our journal's website (http://www.journalofpaleontology.org/). In particular, most files containing detailed locality information, specimens examined, character and character state descriptions, and data matrices are now found in the online archive.
  
• At the last Paleontological Society Council meeting, we were given one-time funds to purchase a limited number of additional pages in two issues in Volume 81, and a . . . [Full Text of this Article]