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Cartographica under new Editorship University of Toronto Press Journals is pleased to welcome Nigel Waters as the new editor of Cartographica. Nigel Waters received a BA with First Class Honours from Cambridge University in 1972 and an MA and PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and 1977, respectively. He began his academic career at the University of Calgary in 1975, retiring as Full Professor in 2007. Since that time he has been employed as Full Professor in the Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where he also directs the Center of Excellence in Geographic Information Science. From 1979 to 1984 he was editor of the BC Geographical Series. In 1987 and 1991 he co-edited and contributed to Cartographica Monographs 36 (Atlases for Schools: Design Principles and Curriculum Perspectives) and 43 (GIS Education and Training). He has contributed the Edge Nodes column to GeoWorld since 1989 and has research interests in GIS and its application to spatial analysis, transportation planning and safety, medical geography, habitat modelling, electoral geography, and crime mapping. In fall 2010 he was the Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Lecturer at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Submit your article to Cartographica using PRESTO Cartographica is pleased to announce that all submissions, reviews, and editorial work will now be done online with University of Toronto Press's bilingual online peer-review system, PRESTO. Recently upgraded, PRESTO has all the features that you would expect from an online peer-review system, such as ease of use for authors, reviewers, and editors; anytime, anywhere availability; a stable author/reviewer database; decision and event records; a reviewer rating system; and a bilingual interface. PRESTO also manages the book-review process beautifully, which is uncommon in systems built for medical and scientific journals. Benefits of moving to an online peer-review system include wider accessibility, faster manuscript review, and improved communication among editors, authors, referees, and book reviewers. Access Cartographica on PRESTO at http://carto.presto.utpjournals.com/jmanager/users/login Cartographica Online Cartographica, the international journal for geographic information and geovisualization, is now available online, including the complete back file of previously published articles going back to 1964 with issue 1.1, when Cartographica was known as The Cartographer. In addition to the substantial back file and current issues, Cartographica Online is a fully searchable electronic resource which addresses all your research needs-full searching (full text, Boolean, relevancy ranking, and persistent keyword searching), quick searching (single field, single button, automatic recognition of ISSN and DOI), advanced searching (citation text, publication, subjects, or content types), search results (summaries, dimensional navigation, abstracts, citation or tabular results, search within results, filter selected items), parent list navigation, publication metadata, TOC alerting, forward reference linking, and link exports. Cartographica is dedicated to publishing articles on all aspects of cartographic and geovisualization research while maintaining its tradition of publishing material on cartographic thought, the history of cartography, and cartography and society. Cartographica delivers in-depth research and writing covering a wide range of cartographic studies, including the production, design, use, and cognitive understanding of maps, the history of maps, and geographic information systems. For more information about Cartographica or Cartographica Online or for submissions information, please contact University of Toronto Press - Journals Division 5201 Dufferin St., Toronto, ON, Canada M3H 5T8 tel: (416) 667-7810 fax: (416) 667-7881 Fax Toll Free in North America 1-800-221-9985 email: [log in to unmask] www.utpjournals.com/carto www.facebook.com/utpjournals Posted by T Hawkins, UTP Journals