The aim is for a 1 month publication time from the date of submission. Non-subscribers are able to browse through the abstracts via Internet but do not have access to the full article. Subscribers are notified of the presence of a new article with the notification including the article number, title, author, abstract, and location. Subscribers identify their key areas of interest so that notification is tailored to their specific needs. Subscribers have unlimited access to the published articles as well as the backfile of articles.
Libraries have liberal use of the material within their local campus environments.
The journal is archived at the MIT Libraries and the Scholarly Communications Project at Virgina Polytechnic Institute. The standard indexing and abstracting services are expected to include the journal in their guides to research. There should be single line spacing, no hyphenation or justification, no page titles, subtitles or numbering, and hard carriage returns should be used only to separate paragraphs and headings. If color figures are submitted as hardcopy, there will be a charge for digital conversion. There must a summary of no more than 200 words which states the purpose, methods, results and conclusions.