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Plath Profiles changes

A recent change was made to Plath Profiles that involved the changing of the main url to the site. The old url http://www.iun.edu/~plath has been changed to http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath. Please update your bookmarks. If you do find a link out there with the old url, never fear it is automatically redirected to the main page.

But, more importantly, if you link directly to your paper, poem, artwork, review (i.e. a contribution) you will need to update the url manually; otherwise, presently the old link automatically redirects to the new homepage main url. This could cause the web surfer potential angst as they may not have paid attention to volume in which the contribution appears. All you need to is add nwadmin/ between ~ and plath in the old url. For example,
the url http://www.iun.edu/~plath/vol3/Steinberg.pdf
is now http://www.iun.edu/~nwadmin/plath/vol3/Steinberg.pdf.

We apologize for any inconvenience and/or frustration that this may cause you. As far as this blog is concerned I have been working my way through old posts updating the url's which has been a tremendous waste of time.

Other Plath Profiles matters... Volume 4 is just about set (waiting on last minute edits and such before we start putting it together). Updates will be provided here and maybe on Plath Profile's Facebook page as spring fades to summer and the days get deliciously shorter and fall into winter’s eager approach.

We have updated, slightly, the submission guidelines based on some feedback and from have been burned a couple of times in the forthcoming issue. Also, we have posted an initial Call for Papers for Volume 5. Feedback welcome; other topics for papers are obviously welcome as well. I am going to be making some changes to the website and creating an "archives" folder that will contain older calls for papers, links to issues, etc.

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