Abstract­ing and index­ing data­base Sco­pus, part of STM pub­lisher Else­vier, Nether­lands, has announced that it has added ‘Articles-in-Press’ (AiP), abstracts of accepted research papers pub­lished prior to being printed, from jour­nals pro­duced by Karger Med­ical and Sci­en­tific Pub­lish­ers, and Nature Pub­lish­ing Group (NPG). Later this year, AiPs from Bio­Med Cen­tral and IEEE will also be avail­able. Sco­pus pre­vi­ously offered access to AiPs from Else­vier and Springer that included 2500 titles. This num­ber will now rise to about 3000.

Sco­pus AiP abstracts are citable and pre­cede the final pub­lished, printed ver­sion by up-to-four months, sig­nif­i­cantly accel­er­at­ing the knowl­edge dis­cov­ery process for researchers. Researchers will gain access to the full-text by link­ing from Sco­pus to the pub­lish­ers’ dig­i­tal library. This early access pro­vides greater con­nec­tiv­ity to the cur­rent state of research in a range of fields, as well as a more timely method for eval­u­at­ing the out­put of authors and institutions.

Since AiPs are posted online either as an accepted man­u­script or online pub­li­ca­tion (accord­ing to each publisher’s release pol­icy), they may still be sub­ject to changes and/or cor­rec­tions by the author or pub­lisher. Sco­pus clearly labels AiPs as such so researchers are aware that an updated abstract will be made avail­able once the papers are in print.”
 

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, July 29th.