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Informs Journals Articles in Advance

In an effort to continue the mission of education of the OR/MS community, INFORMS has initiated Articles in Advance, the release of peer-reviewed, revised, typeset, copyedited, and author-approved articles made available online in advance of their appearance in a printed issue. The content of the Articles in Advance version of an article is the same that will appear in the printed issue of the journal, minus the assignment of page numbers and volume/issue numbers. Articles will remain in the journal’s Articles in Advance section, until selected for an issue by the journal’s editor-in-chief and printed.

How can readers access my article while it is in Articles in Advance?
The full text of Articles in Advance is available through institutional subscribers to the journal for which your article will appear via HighWire Press. The abstract, however, is available to the world and searchable through Internet search engines, e.g. Google, Yahoo. You may also direct readers through an article’s DOI (Digital Object Identifier).

What is a DOI?
A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) is simply a unique identifier for an electronic document that stays with the article throughout its entire life. When an article is sent into production, the INFORMS publications department assigns it a DOI and when that article is published online in Articles in Advance, it is registered with the International DOI Foundation and CrossRef. CrossRef allows other publishers to link their references to the article whenever the article is cited.

Visit, http://dx.doi.org/ and insert a DOI found in the upper right-hand corner of the title page of any INFORMS journal’s article, e.g., “10.1287/mnsc.1060.0655.”

You will be taken straight to the article online, whether it's still in Articles in Advance or has been moved into an issue. The DOI will never change so it will always go to that article, 1 month, 1 year or 10 years after publication. This same number can be entered in an Internet search engine with similar results.

What happens if I find an error in an article after it has gone live?
It is important that the version of the paper that appears in the Articles in Advance is considered complete and final and cannot be changed - in the same way you would not expect to be able to change a printed page. Therefore any errors found must be dealt with in the usual way - by publishing errata or corrigenda.

May I post the Articles in Advance version on my personal website?
No. We must require authors to refrain from posting the Articles in Advance version to their personal websites. Although, INFORMS does have a liberal posting policy for personal websites and will provide each author a PDF of the printed version for this specific purpose, it cannot allow authors to post the Articles in Advance version on their websites. A second version of the article with bibliographic information (volume/issue numbers, page ranges) will change the layout of that article to conform to the print edition. A PDF of the printed article will be sent to each author within three weeks of the issue printing.

What happens to the Articles in Advance articles when the print issue is published?
When the print issue is published, a new set of electronic files is posted online. These are the same articles, but with bibliographic data now that they are in print. Each article's DOI is used to search for its equivalent and the links to duplicate papers are then removed. Hence the article only ever appears in one place at one time.

If an article is published online before it goes into an issue, how can authors cite the work?
Although Articles in Advance articles do not have bibliographic information associated with them (i.e. volume/issue numbers, page ranges), they can still be cited by means of their DOI (Digital Object Identifier). This number will stay with the article throughout its life, even when it has been published in a print issue. Therefore, citations that were made before an article was published in print will still enable readers to access the article when it has been moved to its final issue.

How do I cite a paper from Articles in Advance that has not been assigned to an issue?
Plambeck, E. L., T. A. Taylor. 2007. Implications of renegotiation for optimal contract flexibility and investment. Management Sci., ePub ahead of print October 26, http://mansci.journal.informs.org/cgi/content/abstract/mnsc.1070.0731v1.