The journal as an overlay on preprint databases

The Physical Review journals, particularly Physical Review D (PRD) on parti cle and gravitational physics, have been near the centre of a revolution in electronic publishing caused by the Los Alamos eprint archive, which began Posting papers in theoretical Particle physics nearly eight years ago. Thi s paper describes how the journals, Particularly PRD, have responded and th rived with this revolution in scientific communication, and how we expect t hings to continue to develop in the future.