Annals of Botany 95/2 © Annals of Botany Company 2005; all rights reserved
On-line Working and Open Access Publishing
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If there is a theme to this year's editorial it is dealing with change as the technological, commercial and political climate in which we operate continues to evolve rapidly. This time last year, I was optimistic about replacing our existing, largelye-mail based, procedures for manuscript submission and evaluation with the latest version of a well-known web-based system. This anticipated change to our working practice was expected to bring advantages to authors, referees and to the Journal itself, not least because of its potential to shorten the time taken for evaluation work and for accepted papers to be published. But, for very good reasons, a year on finds us still using our old system; a situation that