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		New name, new Advisory Board, new ethics guidelines This is our 11th issue and it brings happy changes. Our Editorial Board unanimously voted for a name change and we are now the Journal of Gambling Issues (JGI). The change reflects the normalization of electronic publishing. We warmly welcome the 17 clinicians and researchers who form the new international Advisory Board for the JGI. We invited them to advise us on policies and content and to alert us to strategic publishing possibilities (specific topics, special issues, and notable emerging researchers, clinicians, and authors). In everyday language, they will tell us about our shortcomings and notify us about opportunities in gambling topics, research, and clinical approaches. Their names and affiliations are given below. Standards in scholarly publishing are in flux and the threshold for acceptable ethical practice rises constantly. Editorial policies that were considered progressive 10 years ago might now be seen as bordering on neglect. Some medical journals have taken the lead in requiring greater openness and transparency by authors of peer-reviewed articles with regard to their participation (Who was specifically involved in which areas of research and analysis? Who wrote which parts of the article?), funding, and potential competing interests (Do authors have financial involvements or memberships that could potentially be seen to bias their involvement?). The JGI Editorial Board unanimously adopted ethical guidelines that were developed by the International Society of Addiction Journal Editors (ISAJE) and summarized in the Farmington Consensus. This brief ethics statement sets out the current standards for ethical publishing practices for research in addictions. It now constitutes our guide in publishing a journal that is current in terms of scholarly openness and accountability. Beginning with this issue, all articles will have information to help readers know where the authors stand in terms of their commitments. Even articles that are not peer reviewed and letters to the editor will have statements of the authors' competing interests. Peer-reviewed articles will have statements on (a) each author's role in producing the article, (b) competing interests for each author, (c) details of the ethics-approval process for projects involving human or animal subjects, and (d) the funding that allowed the article to be written. For the sake of openness, a future JGI editorial will describe the process of article submission, peer review, acceptance, and publication at the JGI. For the ISAJE statement on publishing ethics and the Farmington Consensus as adopted by JGI, please see http://www.isaje.net/ and click on "Publishing Ethics" - the ninth item in the left-hand margin. This site also has interesting information about ISAJE. In line with this policy of openness, the editor makes this declaration: Statement of competing interests: The editor is an employee of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Canada. Ethical approval: None is required for editorial activities. Funding: Publication of the Journal of Gambling Issues is jointly funded by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and the province of Ontario, Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Substance Abuse Bureau, for the editor's salary and publication costs. The authors of feature articles receive a US$1,000 honorarium, but other authors are not paid for their articles. Peer reviewers receive a US$100 honorarium in appreciation for their time and expertise. Please contact us with your comments about the JGI: Phil_Lange@camh.net. Statement of purpose The Journal of Gambling Issues (JGI) offers an Internet-based forum for developments in gambling-related research, policy and treatment as well as personal accounts about gambling and gambling behaviour. Through publishing peer-reviewed articles about gambling as a social phenomenon and the prevention and treatment of gambling problems, it is our aim is to help make sense of how gambling affects us all. The JGI is published by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and is fully funded by the Ontario Substance Abuse Bureau of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. We welcome manuscripts submitted by researchers and clinicians, people involved in gambling as players, and family and friends of gamblers. Editor Phil Lange Editorial Board Nina Littman-Sharp, Robert Murray, Wayne Skinner, Tony Toneatto and Nigel E. Turner, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Advisory Board Peter Adams, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Will Bennis, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany Alex Blaszczynski, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Jeffrey L. Derevensky, International Center for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviors, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Mark Griffiths, Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, U.K. David C. Hodgins, Dept. of Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Edward Kwan, Independent practice, Hong Kong, China Ray McNeil, Nova Scotia Department of Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Lia Nower, School of Social Welfare, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Misouri, U.S.A. Nancy Petry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, U.S.A. María Prieto, Dept. of Psychological Intervention, University P. Comillas, Madrid, Spain Lusanda U.Z. Rataemane, National Gambling Board, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa Gerda Reith, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Cesar A. Sanchez-Bello, Pathological Gambling Section of Latin-American Psychiatric Association, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela Målfrid Todal, Division of Psychiatry, St. Olav's Hospital, Trondheim, Norway Rachel A. Volberg, Gemini Research, Ltd., Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Monica L. Zilberman, Institute of Psychiatry, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Reviewers Peter Adams, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioural Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Bruce Ballon, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Alex Blaszczynski, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Linda Chamberlain, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Gerry Cooper, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada Jeff Derevensky, Youth Gambling Research & Treatment Clinic, Dept of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada William Eadington, Institute for the Study of Gambling and Commercial Gaming, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. Pat Erickson, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Jackie Ferris, Ferris Research, Toronto, Ontario, Canada G. Ron Frisch, Problem Gambling Research Group, Dept of Psychology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada Richard Govoni, Problem Gambling Research Group, Dept of Psychology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Mark Griffiths, Psychology Division, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, U.K. Rina Gupta, Youth Gambling Research & Treatment Clinic, Dept of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada David C. Hodgins, Addiction Centre, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Roger Horbay, Game Planit Interactive Corp., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Alun C. Jackson, School of Social Work, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, New South Wales, Australia Durand Jacobs, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, U.S.A. Jeffrey Kassinove, Dept of Psychology, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.A. David Korn, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Igor Kusyszyn, Dept. of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Robert Ladouceur, École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada Samuel Law, Baffin Regional Hospital, Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada Henry Lesieur, Dept of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. Vanessa López-Viets, Dept of Psychology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A. Ray MacNeil, Nova Scotia Department of Health, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Virginia McGowan, Addictions Counselling Program, The University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Goldie Millar, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada María Prieto, Dept. of Psychological Intervention, University P. Comillas, Madrid, Spain Gerda Reith, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland Robin Room, Centre for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Lisa Root, The Niagara Alcohol and Drug Assessment Service, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada Loreen Rugle, Clinical and Research Services, Trimeridian, Inc., Carmel, Indiana, U.S.A. Randy Stinchfield, University of Minnesota Medical School, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A. David Streiner, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, Toronto, Ontario, Canada William Thompson, Dept. of Public Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A. Lisa Vig, Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota, Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A. Rachel Volberg, Gemini Research, Ltd., Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Keith Whyte, National Council on Problem Gambling, Washington D.C., U.S.A. Jamie Wiebe, Responsible Gambling Council (Ontario), Toronto, Ontario, Canada Harold Wynne, Wynne Resources Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Martin Zack, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Design staff Graphic Designer: Mara Korkola, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada HTML Markup & Programming: Bernie Monette, InterActive Arts www.iaai.ca, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

		issue 11 — july 2004