CompSciNet Electronic Electronic Computer Science is a popular field with a large number of high quality, popular publications. Due to the nature of the subject, the readers and potential subscribers of computer science journals are likely to be more open to new ways of presenting the information, such as via the Internet. Submission to the journals is available via this site and the page for each individual journal, all refereeing and discussion is also done in this way. After acceptance, papers are sent to the Publisher. Papers are made available as they are accepted, speed of publication is therefore guaranteed because papers don't have to wait to appear in an issue.
Postscript prevents alteration of the material by the referee.
The editor forwards the file to the referees who can view it but not change it and return the document to the author with their comments attached. The editor takes responsibility for ensuring this procedure is quick. Communication between the editor, referees and author may be repeated until a decision of acceptance or rejection is made. The editor will forward their accepted paper to the publisher, Thomson Science. In this way, the author can check for any mistakes and the editor oversees the process.