Number 119 (Story #1), March 19, 1993 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein ELECTRONIC-MAIL CIRCULATION OF PHYSICS ARTICLES has increased greatly in the last few years owing to the ubiquity of personal computers and the advent of flexible software for transmitting text files. One set of electronic bulletin boards, established by Paul Ginsbarg at Los Alamos, receives 600 theoretical-physics preprints monthly. The more than 8000 subscribers can choose abstracts from a menu and can even receive whole-article texts. Many physicists, particularly those abroad with scant access to certain printed journals, claim that bulletin boards like this are now their principal way of getting timely reports of new research. Critics say that the lack of peer review and a growing tendency (encouraged by an easily available communications channel) to rush into print may result in a lowering of publishing standards. The established print journals are not overlooking the power of electronic transmission. The European journals Nuclear Physics A and B will soon make available in electronic form articles that have been accepted for publication but not yet published. The American Physical Society is also considering online publishing. (Science, 26 Feb. 1993.)