Publish Ahead of Print in OvidSP

Your site's subscription to Journals@Ovid includes Publish Ahead of Print (PAP)—online access to critical content before it is published in a printed form. PAP Full Text is made available in selected journals from publishers who participate with OvidSP's Publish Ahead of Print program. All PAP content has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publishing.

Active PAP records represent the current version of PAP content. Throughout your session, OvidSP labels PAP records as follows to indicate the stage of publishing development of the PAP record's content:

• Post-acceptance  Content has been peer-reviewed and accepted for publishing
• Post-copyedit  Content has been edited for grammar and spelling, and facts have been checked for accuracy and conformity to a desired format
• Post-author-corrections  Content has undergone further review by the author for accuracy
• Post-editor-corrections  Content has been polished by both the author and the editor to improve the final results

Search or browse for PAP records from within your OvidSP session.

OvidSP assigns a posting date to every PAP record. The PAP post date is the date on which that version of PAP content was entered into the Journals@Ovid database.

Click a PAP record's Ovid Full Text link, and OvidSP displays a PDF version of the link.

You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view PAP Full Text. OvidSP launches PDF files on separate windows where you may save, email, and print the Full Text directly from the reader. To return to your session, click the Previous Page link.

When PAP content is published in print, OvidSP removes the record from the PAP issue, converts it to an Ovid Full Text record, and inserts it in the online journal issue of Journals@Ovid.

Content in any stage of pre-publication may change significantly before final publication. Because OvidSP's PAP articles present content that is in-process toward final publication, their statements, opinions, and information may contain errors in facts, figures, or interpretation. With this in mind, apply responsibly any information you might gain from Journals@Ovid PAP articles.