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According to today's story in "Inside Higher Education" (http://insidehighered.com/news/2006/09/18/documents), NEH has revised its scholarly editions proposal guidelines to give preference to freely available online works. The article reports lamentations from scholars concerned about waning peer review and the absence of viable business models to support university presses; nevertheless, the new thrust would appear to support the spirit of the recommendations from the recent ACLS Cyberinfrastructure report, "Our Cultural Commonwealth" (http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/acls.ci.report.pdf). While there may be problems with the hurried way in which the new NEH guidelines were promulgated, this should fuel wider discussion in the humanities about how to adopt more open and flexible digital publishing models. Martha Brogan (203) 389-4355 [log in to unmask]