In the majority of cases that you communicate with journal editors you have to do it through a web form. When you submit a paper, or when you have to act on referee reports, or when you act as a reviewer of a paper. Science supporting agencies also have discovered the ease of web forms. Submission of proposals – usually in the form of filing out a number of text boxes and uploading a number of pdf files – also has to be done through a web interface.

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