Like traditional print publishing, many of the advantages of electronic publishing don't become obvious until you participate on the creative end. It's easier than you think. Relative to PaleoNet and several of the vertebrate paleontological listservers the dedicated micropaleontological listservers have relatively low levels of activity. One step up from listservers lies Paleontologia Electronica . Creating manuscripts for this journal is no more difficult that creating manuscripts for a traditional print journal.
All contributions are thoroughly peer-reviewed.
There are no page charges. Use of large numbers of illustrations and color graphics is encouraged. Perhaps even more importantly for micropaleontologists, there is no manuscript size limit and no backlog. Although electronic journals are new to paleontology, they are by no means new to science, a point that was recently made clear when Paleontologia Electronica became the five thousandth journal to be listed on NewJour, the internet electronic journal listserver. Electronic journals are here to stay and the micropaleontological community is well placed to take the lead in this new area of paleontological publication.