EDITORIAL.

The article examines different issues related to the publishing of the "International Journal of Public Opinion Research (IJPOR)." One of the issues that would gain prominence in future is online access to journal articles and its implications for authors' rights and publishers' businesses. The editors of IJPOR have decided on a 24-months embargo on "post-prints." A post-print is defined as the author's final draft of a manuscript as accepted for publication by a journal, but before it has undergone the copy editing and proof correction process. If authors choose to make a version of their accepted article freely available, shortly after the paper is published in a journal, this would obviously hamper journal subscriptions. Several journals are using an online submission system where authors, reviewers, editors and the publisher communicate exclusively via a special web site. The editors of IJPOR have not favored the introduction of such a system, since it was felt that the readiness of referees to review manuscripts might be affected by putting too much burden on them and make it psychologically easier for them to decline by just hitting a "no" button.