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Post by galvin on Mar 20, 2006 5:22:02 GMT
I am interested in knowing when a journal article is considered to have been published. Is the date the article is available on the web the recognized date, or when the article finally makes it to print. In some areas there is a growing trend to on-line publishing only.
This issue is important in a number of research publication measures such as the impact factor, and also in the research assessment exercises that are conducted in a given year (in the University sector).
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Post by Steven Ottogalli on Mar 24, 2006 21:21:05 GMT
Dear Mr. Galvin,
We consider the date that an author's corrected proof is published online as the official date of an article's publication.
On ScienceDirect, the corrected proofs can be found in the journal's "Articles in Press" with the published online date appearing below the article title. When the article is compiled into an issue, the published online date is moved to the title page of both the print and PDF version of the article, appearing below the article history date.
Please let me know if you have further questions about this.
Sincerely,
Steven Ottogalli
Publishing Editor, Elsevier
s.ottogalli@elsevier.com
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Post by I Wild USA on Mar 31, 2006 9:39:03 GMT
Could you clarify how an article is cited then? If it is published in ScienceDirect in, say, November 2006, then how is it cited? If it then appears in, say, Volume 20 Number 2 of the journal's hard copy, is the citation then the hard copy or the ScienceDirect version?
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Post by Steven Ottogalli on Mar 31, 2006 16:21:59 GMT
Dear Dr. Wild,
Authors are requested to cite the article DOI, journal name, and year of online publication when citing an Article in Press (i.e. an article that has not yet been assigned to an issue). The DOI (digital object identifier) is found at the bottom of the article's title page (in PDF and print) and at the top of the online text version on ScienceDirect. The DOI is actively linked for the life of the article, even after it is compiled into an issue.
Once an Article in Press is compiled into an issue, authors may cite the article per standard journal citation; for example, Wild, I., The article title. Minerals Engineering, 2006, 20(2), 1-10.
Sincerely,
Steven Ottogalli
Publishing Editor, Elsevier
s.ottogalli@elsevier.com
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Post by Robert Groover on Apr 1, 2006 14:07:38 GMT
In patent law the date of a technical publication is simply a question of fact: when was the content of the article made available to the public? The stated date of online availability would usually be the correct date, but sometimes we refer to an earlier date instead (e.g. if a draft version of the article had been posted first).
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