EarlyView: Enhanced online publication of JMRI articles

Abstract

AS WE APPROACH the one-year anniversary of our move from paper-based to web-based manuscript processing, we are pleased to make readers aware of another exciting change that is underway for the Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: the publication of articles in EarlyView. Previously entire issues have been made available online in advance of print. With EarlyView, individual articles are made available online in advance of print, shortly after receipt of the author's proof corrections. With EarlyView, articles are online in advance of print roughly six to eight weeks sooner than they were previously. An article is published online before it is assigned to an issue. The online publication date is the official publication date of the article. JMRI readers are able to access EarlyView articles, as well as JMRI issues, online by means of the Wiley InterScience website (www.interscience.wiley.com). An unpaginated article is housed under the EarlyView banner on the website until it becomes part of an issue. Once that issue goes to press, the article is removed from EarlyView but is still available in the online version of the printed issue. In a sense, the printed issues become archives of the articles that have been posted previously in EarlyView. Please note that articles in EarlyView are posted in their final format and only after all author/editor corrections have been incorporated. Changes to articles posted in EarlyView can be made only through publishing an erratum. Articles are individually delivered to PubMed from our publisher each day. Articles in EarlyView are citable by means of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Currently each JMRI article carries a DOI; it appears at the bottom of the opening page of the article. Each DOI is unique and consists of letters and numbers (e.g., DOI 10.1002/jmri.20191). Beneath the DOI, the phrase “Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com)” appears. For articles that have appeared in EarlyView, that phrase is modified to reflect the actual publication date of the article—the date that it was posted in EarlyView. For example, it will read “Published online 25 July 2005 in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com).” DOIs do not replace traditional bibliographic citations but can be a very useful addition to them, particularly if one is citing an EarlyView article that has not yet been assigned to an issue. I hope you will visit the Wiley InterScience website and look for the EarlyView banner. Providing the EarlyView link is an effort to give readers access to accepted manuscripts in their final form at the earliest possible date.