Since 2001, the Orange Journal of Technical Communication (http://orange.eserver.org/) has been an experimental graduate journal that strove to foster critical thinking on a variety of issues important to technical communicators. It has been located since its inception within the EServer Technical Communication Library, and built with minimal automation, to permit student authors to post their papers without dependence upon ephemeral online publishing technologies.

But this past week that has changed. Under the leadership of a new editorial board of graduate students, a new, growing advisory board, and with a new, open-source, database-driven content management system, this week the journal released issue 6:4 (volume 6, number 4) and re-launched under a new URL (http://orange.eserver.org/). This will allow student authors to create their papers within a Microsoft Word-like editing environment (Kupu) directly within the web browser, will allow readers to post comments and discussion, and will allow editors to assemble issues much more flexibly, still using submissions from graduate students' submitted end-of-semester research papers.

The EServer TC Library is an experiment in community libraries--part library index, part web portal--for professional, scientific and technical communicators (including technical writers). The goal of the website is to provide tech comm practitioners, students, teachers and managers a single location from which to access the best resources available online.