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States that a major British medical journal, `BMJ' is testing a new system of peer review using the World-Wide Web. Paper by outspoken advocate of online scholarship which has been publicly posted on the journal's Web site; Editors to decide whether to accept the paper and publish it in the printed version of the journal.

The article reports that Rice University announced in August 2006 that it will be the first all electronic university press. Rice will produce all academic works in electronic format and post them to a Web site rather than print books on paper. Rice had a traditional university press until the 1990s; the high costs associated with a paper-based press led to its shutting down. The university will use Connexions, its existing open-source online publishing program for the electronic press. Books will be free to read online, but readers will have to pay to download books. Readers can also pay to have a printout of scholarly works printed by a separate print-on-demand company.