I noticed (after I had submitted an article to R on paper) that an (almost) purely electronic path now exists with this major publisher. Thus new (and revised) article submission guidelines http://www.rsc.org/submissions show the LEAST preferred option as printing the article, putting it in an envelope and posting it! I gather that only a very small proportion of these articles currently get refereed online, but the RSC apparently hopes to increase this! The e-documents then go to the production dept, and for PhysChemComm at least, never actually get printed! I have not had the time to visit many other society and commercial publishers pages, but I wonder how many journals offer a purely e-only route. One that HAS been doing so for some time is the Internet Journal of Chemistry, and the J. Mol. Modelling as well. The ACS has recently started. I do find it interesting that mainstream publishers are now offering this route as the preferred option, even for journals that ultimately end up being printed. Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)