LEAP is pleased to announce a new service for our authors, researchers, and readers: Online First, the immediate online publication of all accepted papers as soon as the authors have returned the revised manuscript.

This means an enormous reduction of the time lag between the acceptance of manuscripts and their appearance in the upcoming issues.

Each paper reviewed, revised, and accepted for publication will be published on the Journal’s website with its own publication date. In addition, each article will receive a unique international identification code – the “Digital Object Identifier” (DOI), which is registered with the International DOI Foundation. Contributions published Online First are citable by journal title and DOI. The final online and print versions will also have the final page numbers, the DOI, and the online publication date.