Electronic reprints are posted on the Internet in portable document format
(PDF) to be read or printed by anyone on the Internet.  When printed, the
"e-reprint" matches the traditional reprint exactly.
 
E-reprints are convenient for both authors and readers, and they cost little
to produce.  Since 1994, the Florida Entomological Society has posted
e-reprints of all articles published in Florida Entomologist (its refereed
journal begun in 1917).  Because making and mounting the PDF files costs the
Society less than $2.50 per page, it has opted not to charge authors for
e-reprints but to absorb the cost within current page charges.
 
You can access these e-reprints at http://www.fcla.ufl.edu/FlaEnt/fehmpg.htm
and decide for yourself if authors in your societies' journals might like to
have the option of having their articles available in this form all the time
anywhere on the Internet.
 
At the same site is a hyperlink to a fuller discussion of e-reprints,
originally published in the March 1996 issue of BioScience, on p. 171.
 
Thomas J. Walker
Department of Entomology & Nematology
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-0620
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