1 VOLUME 29 • NUMBER 1 • 2017 AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND SOCIAL WORK EDITORIAL The editorial collective and open access: one year on AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND SOCIAL WORK 29(1), 1–3. This issue marks the first anniversary of the new format open access Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work journal. Our editorial collective has worked hard to redesign the journal, introduce a new online article submission and reviewing process and promote the journal to local and international audiences. How we work in the editorial collective is a very collaborative process. Two or three editors work on an issue, managing the peer review process, working with authors and readying the articles for production. Two editors then work on production and proof checking. This spreads the load and means we have a very efficient system in place, enabling us to keep to schedule. Although we operate in a very collective fashion, we decided to appoint an Editor-in-Chief and, towards the end of last year, the collective elected Liz Beddoe to that role for the first three years. During 2016 we published four issues with 33 original articles, 14 book reviews, one viewpoint and one commentary. These articles, in addition to the issues archived back to 2010, had more than 12,000 downloads during 2016. We have had 4,600 visitors to the journal: 76% of whom are from New Zealand and 24% from overseas. Offering online and open access means we have reduced the barriers to sharing Aotearoa New Zealand social work practice with the international social work community, and many overseas academics and practitioners are choosing to use our journal to publish their research. Using open access means authors, and others, are able to rapidly disseminate their scholarship, research, practice innovation and policy critique using social media such as Facebook and Twitter. We wish to take the time to thank our international advisory board and our panel of 120 (and growing) peer reviewers, drawn from Aotearoa, Australia, Canada, the United States, Ireland, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. The strength of a journal lies in its reviewing processes, as our authors attest, good reviews are critical and constructive. As editors, we see our reviewers as vital partners. Of the four issues published in 2016, two were special issues: one on child protection and neoliberalism, the other on creativity and innovation in social work. We have a publication schedule through to the end of 2018 including issues of Te Komako and Tu Mau. In 2017 we have two general issues planned, a special issue on critical and radical social work and an issue of Te Komako. Turning now to this first issue for 2017, it is a rich collection of research and scholarship traversing some interesting territories. Some common themes emerge as various articles report research that gives voice to groups whose needs may be overlooked or who have their participation marginalised. Articles draw on qualitative research, literature review, case study and documentary sources and are a good example of the exciting breadth of current scholarly activity of practitioners and academics. The assembled articles traverse a wide set of topics: young people and their experiences as service users and potentially service designers; the transitions of older adults and people with disabilities between forms of independent living and residential care (and vice versa); the history of social work professionalization; the place of counselling in the profession; a critical exploration of the employment of neuroscience in social policy and practice; a