Scholar's Forum is one of several new alternative publishing models for scholarship proposed by the California Institute of Technology in 1999 ("Scholars' Forum: A New Model For Scholarly Communication" <http://library.caltech.edu/publications/scholarsforum/>). It shares with the Guild Publishing Model the idea of decoupling peer review from publishing. It also shares with the E-print archive and Institutional Repository the idea of pre-publishing and archiving scholarly papers in order to accelerate access to scholarship within or across disciplines, while still allowing for scholarly community-based evaluation.