JEAB and JABA on the World Wide Web: a report to readers.

In 1996 the editors of JABA and JEAB told readers the journals now had web pages.

The pages let anyone search thousands of abstracts and read articles online before the print copy arrived.

This was the first time the two main behavior-analytic journals offered Internet access to their archives.

The web pages went live with a working search box and a full set of abstracts.

Authors said the site would grow as more back issues were scanned.

Smith (1996) came out the same year and gave the same advice: get online, join list-servs, and use web journals.

Trevisan et al. (2021) later built a free web tool that lets clinicians create and track ABA lessons, showing the 1996 idea grew into real practice platforms.

Lotfizadeh et al. (2025) tested electronic versus paper data sheets and found no loss in speed, proving the web move did not hurt session quality.

Jones et al. (2020) and Bergmann et al. (2023) looked back at JABA articles and found many still lack demographic and fidelity details, so easy online access did not automatically raise reporting standards.

You can now open any browser and search decades of ABA evidence in seconds.

The 1996 launch started this habit, but later audits remind us that finding articles faster does not replace writing better ones.

Bookmark the archives, but also add participant race, SES, and fidelity checks when you publish so the next click leads to clearer science.