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This article reports that "Policy Analysis, Systems Approaches, and Decision Making," a new quarterly journal, will appear in 1970 under the editorship of E.S. Quade. According to its prospectus, it will provide a forum for the developing interest in the application of structured rationality, systematic analysis, and interdisciplinary knowledge to problems of public policy. It will include applied studies analyzing specific problem areas, theoretic studies on the methods, content, and problems of the policy sciences, and papers dealing with the policy sciences as a subject for research and teaching and as a new profession. It will pay close attention to the application of policy science to real decisions, aiming to improve the outcome as well as the state-of-the-art and to attract the participation and respect of practitioners. Case histories and experiences will be among the subjects of the journal's scrutiny. Another important service the proposed journal will provide through its book review department is an annotated bibliography and comprehensive review of new literature in the policy sciences.