Subject:  Medline citation of yet-to-be-published papers (Lundquist).
Date:     Tue, 12 Sep 2000 101519 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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Our scientists probably know this already -- but just in case......guru.....

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Subject: Medline citation of yet-to-be-published papers
Date: 12 Sep 00 07:09:50 PDT
From: Marjorie Lundquist 
To: guru@emfguru.com

Roy, I looked up the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry (Per Segerback had sent
a citation from Medline to a paper to be published in the December 1, 2000,
issue) and found that it is published by Wiley and puts out 18 issues per
year.
The schedule for publishing a journal means that papers are committed to a
particular issue well ahead of actual publication.  Since this journal carried
a publication date of December 1, actual publication will be in the middle or
latter part of November, to allow time for mailing the journal so it will
arrive about Dec. 1.  The material must go to the printer in late October or
early November, I expect.  The production staff will be preparing the material
for the printer during September and October.  They have to put together the
manuscripts, advertisements, news, announcements, and editorials and put the
assemblage in finished form, ready for submission to the printer.
What many journals are doing now, to speed up indexing by Medline and others,
is to provide the citation and abstract to the indexer (electronically, I
assume).  That is the case for this paper (it says "Medline record in
progress").  This is a task that can be done just as soon as the decision is
made as to which issue of the journal a manuscript will be published in.  That
is a very early decision in the process of preparing a given issue for
publication.  Probably that decision has been very recently made for the
December 1, 2000, issue of the Journal of Cellular Biochemistry.
When Medline itself must do the indexing, sometimes it will be a year after
publication before the item appears in Medline (though usually it doesn't take
that long). -- Marjorie


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