Number 618 #3, December 23, 2002 by Phil Schewe, James Riordon, and Ben Stein
PRL Changes Its Publication Dates
Instead of appearing on Monday each week, the print version of Physical
Review Letters will now appear on Friday. The print issue will comprise
all the articles that were published online during that week. It had
already been the case for more than a year that online publication marked
the official publication date for each article, and so the new print-version
schedule does not affect this policy. (http://prl.aps.org/edannounce/PRLv89i26.html
)