Rzepa, Henry wrote:
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.
Henry, The new ACS (SPARC) journal Organic Letters is handling about 67% of its articles by electronic submission and reviewing. ACS plans to introduce electronic submission for other ("paper") journals too. Wendy -- Dr Wendy A Warr Wendy Warr & Associates, 6 Berwick Court Holmes Chapel, Cheshire CW4 7HZ, England Tel/fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy@warr.com http://www.warr.com 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)