Introduction. The Yellow Nineties Online publishes primary texts from the 1890s and secondary texts written by critics of fin-de-siècle culture. Both kinds of texts are marked up in TEI for search purposes. As a dynamic structure, a scholarly website is always in process. Our decisions in selecting and presenting materials on The Yellow Nineties Online are governed by the following principles. Editorial Principles 1. Primary materials Our editorial method for the facsimile editions published here is informed by social-text editing principles. The editors understand text as including visual and verbal printed material, including non-referential physical elements such as page design, ornament, and binding. We view any text as the outcome of a collaborative process that has specific material manifestations at precise historical moments. We have chosen to reproduce The Yellow Book in facsimile form at its moment of first publication. The social moment—and our editorial horizon—is demarcated by the decade of the 1890s as experienced in and around the London contexts of The Yellow Book’s contributors and associates. The project’s principal interest is in presenting the text’s physical components in its first edition, with attention to its production and reception. Copy-text for The Yellow Book and any other primary material edited on The Yellow Nineties Online is the first edition unless otherwise noted. The Yellow Book is presented in facsimile, using double-page opening of the flip-book function. In addition, the physical features, verbal texts, and visual images of each Yellow Book volume are marked up in TEI and available in both xml and PDF formats. Annotations to the facsimile edition are kept to a minimum. Commentary is available in the site’s associated secondary materials. 2. Secondary materials In addition to providing the publication vehicle for the marked-up facsimile edition of The Yellow Book, The Yellow Nineties Online is also an electronic publishing site for peer-reviewed material relating to The Yellow Book and fin-de-siècle cultural studies. Secondary material published on the site has three levels of review. First, the editors solicit and co-edit commentary from leading scholars in the field. Second, the site is overseen by an international Editorial Board of experts. Third, the site will be submitted to NINES (Networked Interface for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) for blind vetting in 2010. Once accepted by NINES, The Yellow Nineties Online will be associated with a large consortium of electronic scholarship and available for aggregated searches online. At this time, the editors’ priority in selecting secondary material is to make available a biography for each person who contributed to, or was associated with, the individual volumes of The Yellow Book. Each of these biographies is accompanied by a list of writings by, and about, the contributor. The editors also seek to publish high-quality essays on relevant aspects of The Yellow Book’s production and reception as an illustrated periodical. We are particularly interested in material relating to the aesthetic, bibliographic, cultural, institutional, personal, and technological contexts of its publication. Editorial Guidelines for Contributors of Biographies 1. FORMAT and CONTENT TEMPLATE Person’s Name: FIRST, LAST (BIRTH AND DEATH DATE) (flush left) i.e. ELLA D'ARCY (1851-1939) Biographical Entry: Begins flush left, immediately under person’s name. Left justified, single-spaced. 500 - 1000 words. Entries should include the following: a) Brief biographical details focusing on early education, training, and important influences. b) Extended commentary on career, including important contributions to literary, artistic, cultural, social and/or publishing history. Keep quotations from other sources to a minimum. c) Connections to key works, events, and participants of the Victorian fin de siècle particularly warrant mention. 2. STYLE All notes, essays, and other editorial apparatuses in The Yellow Nineties Online follow the MLA Style Guide (7th ed.). Book titles are italicized, not underlined. Comma before “and” in a serial list (i.e. red, gold, and green). The Yellow Book, not the Yellow Book. Acceptable abbrev.: YB Preferred font is Arial 12. The spelling standard is Canadian.