Philosopher Steve Gross (Johns Hopkins) shared this interesting message he recently got from Pacific Philosophical Quarterly:
We want to let you know that Wiley, the publisher of the PPQ, has just instituted a policy designed to lessen the time it takes between acceptance and publication for the articles accepted by their journals, namely, to publish certain issues as on-line only, instead of both on-line and print. All articles that appear in the PPQ, regardless of the format, will count equally as publications in the PPQ, and will be assigned a particular issue number and date; there will be no distinction between print + on-line and on-line only issues except for their respective formats and the time it takes between acceptance and publication. We, the PPQ editors, are happy to endorse this policy, since we think that it’s best for both authors and their audiences to permit quicker general access to the articles chosen for publication in the PPQ.
In this case, it was the difference between December 2017 (on-line only) or March 2019 (on-line plus hard copy).
I suspect other publishers will follow suit, though this may just mark a transition leading to fully on-line publication.
