Spectrochimica Acta Part B, covers topics from rapidly expanding areas in atomic spectroscopy, mass spectroscopy for inorganic analysis, analytical laser spectroscopy and surface, interface, thin film and micro/analysis. The articles deal with: theory and fundamentals, methodology development, instrumentation, and applications. 1991 saw the introduction of a new section in the journal, Spectrochimica Acta Electronica. The aim of which is to establish, in the field of spectroscopy and related areas of analytical chemistry, an adequate and well structured way of disseminating programs and/or data on electronic media (diskettes) between authors and readers, in those instances where the classical form of publishing is no longer efficient and effective. An electronic publication (EP) will consist of a hardcopy text published in the journal and an electronic text on diskette, made available together. Though published as a section of SAB, EPs in the fields of molecular spectroscopy, physical atomic spectroscopy, general analytical chemistry and chemometrics will also be considered.