In addition to these serials, MBG Press also publishes free-standing books. One early example was Julian Steyermark's Spring Flora of Missouri , published in 1940. The name of the Garden's publishing operation, Missouri Botanical Garden Press , also dates to the Trelease era. As MBG Press enters a second century, its operations are increasingly electronic. MBG Press editors and staff may now track and edit manuscripts, and receive and send out reviews and other correspondence electronically.
Authors are more and more submitting manuscripts and original figures in electronic formats.
These advances have significantly changed the way the Press communicates with authors, reviewers, and printers. This year marks a decade for the serial Novon . The number of pages published per year have jumped from 1,000 in 1996 to 1,500 in 1999, an indicator of the important niche in the botanical systematics community filled by this journal. The latter will be the only completed flora of a Latin American country published in Spanish. The Bill D'Arcy Memorial Volume is progressing and has commitments for more than two dozen manuscripts.