The Virtual Anaesthesia Textbook is a collaborative project involving many individuals around the globe. Its goal is to create and maintain, using a familiar 'textbook' style, a comprehensive set of links to all known anaesthesia related internet information. The option of peer review will be available to all VAT contributers and chapter organizers. Because of the nature of the WWW and of the VAT itself, peer review will not be a requirement for inclusion at the present time.