The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has been publishing, since 1992, the Indian Journal of Open Learning (IJOL), a refereed/peer reviewed international journal  to disseminate information about theory, practice and research in the field of distance and open learning including correspondence and multi-media education, educational technology and communication, independent and experiential learning and other innovative forms of education; and to provide a forum to researchers  across the world for debate on these areas of concern with particular reference to the developing nations. This refereed quarterly journal is internationally contributed, subscribed and abstracted. From 1992 to 1996 IJOL was published twice a year and from 1997 onwards, it is published three times in a year, in January, May and September.