Embase Alert on Dialog adds Articles in Press (AIP) records

Articles in Press records started loading in Embase^® Alert (File172) on Dialog in late September. AIP records represent the earliest version of a record as it goes through the Elsevier editorial process. In most cases an Article in Press will not have volume, issue, or pagination information, and may also be missing a publication date. It will have a Title, Authors and an Abstract. This valuable literature is now being made available earlier than previously.

As the Article in Press goes through the editorial process, it is replaced by a standard Embase Alert record when the full bibliographic citation information is known. The transition to a standard Embase Alert record may take a couple of days or several weeks.

• AIPs, easily identifiable because they contain the Document type Article in Press, are searchable as DT=ARTICLE IN PRESS.
• Articles in Press are loaded from the present forward.
• Accession numbers for all records in Embase Alert, currently 10-digit values, are changed to eight-digits as AIP records are loaded. During the transition period, there will be a mixture of 10- and eight-digit accession numbers; after eight weeks all accession numbers will be eight digits in length.
• EMTREE descriptors are introduced in newly added Embase Alert records, including newly loaded AIP records. Descriptors can be searched and displayed using the Dialog DE tag.
• File172 has also been enhanced with the 2012 Embase thesaurus.

Note: Articles in Press (AIP) records started to appear in Embase Alert on ProQuest Dialog in August.

OCTOBER 2012

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