From: Ari Belenkiy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 20:28:48 -0700

Yes, there is a so-called "Early View".

See for example,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-985X/earlyview

This version does not have pages, but it is considered a publication.

Ari Belenkiy

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:27 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 09:14:00 +0100
>
> People on this list may have forgotten this rather important question from
> Robert Kiley. At least I thought it was important especially because in my
> experience many publishers are very poor at making clear on their sites
> their policies regarding their VOR. I consulted with Ed Pentz of CrossRef.
> Here is his reply:
>
> "Robert's question is whether AOP and VOR are "identical" but the more
> fundamental issue is whether the AOP is the VOR. I'm sure in some cases the
> AOP and VOR are identical and in others they aren't - some publishers
> probably consider the AOP the VOR while others don't. The key issue with
> something having a CrossMark is that whatever the version the publisher is
> committed to maintain it and use CrossMark to provide alerts of any MAJOR
> changes that would effect the crediting or interpretation of the work.
>
> CrossMark actually focuses on the "publisher-maintained version" which is
> often the Version of Record but can be an AOP version. In the current
> version of CrossMark there is no version statement or mention of "version of
> record" since users didn't know what that meant and publishers had varying
> meanings of it as well."
>
> Ed has agreed for this reply to be made public and he is also on the list
> and can answer follow up questions.
>
> Anthony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Kiley, Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:35:31 +0100
>
> Dear List members
>
> Does anyone know whether there is any difference between an "ahead of
> print" (AOP) publication and a "version of record" (VOR) publication?
> Typically an AOP article may not include metadata like issue and page
> numbers - but other than this, can the AOP always be considered as
> identical to the VoR?
>
> I looked at the NISO Journal Article Versions document (
> http://www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf) but couldn't see
> any reference to the AOP version.
>
> Many thanks
> Robert
>
> Robert Kiley
> Head of Digital Services
> Wellcome Library
> mailto:[log in to unmask]
> Library Web site: http://library.wellcome.ac.uk