Thursday, April 08, 2004

SpringerLink e-journal platform

When SpringerVerlag Publishers hosted its own e-journal platform, there was a searchable category of "Online First".
These articles were published online prior to full and complete editorial and peer review and subsequent assignment of volume, issue and page numbers in the print/online journal.
This was also its own searchable category on the website.
However, since SpringerLink content is now hosted at the MetaPress e-journal platform, this category and search capability has disappeared.

There are still articles in "Online First" that have not completed the publication process . The only way to find them now is to do an author or title search in SpringerLink on a citation from MedLine. In these instances, MedLine will not provide volume, issue and page numbers. They will be identified only by the terminology of " Online First"

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