Versions of journal articles

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For full details, please see Journal Article Versions (JAV): Recommendations of the NISO/ALPSP JAV Technical Working Group © 2008 NISO 2. Available at www.niso.org/publications/rp/RP-8-2008.pdf

Author’s Original (AO)
“Any version of a journal article that is considered by the author to be of sufficient quality to be submitted for formal peer review by a second party. The author accepts full responsibility for the article. … Content and layout as set out by the author.”

Submitted Manuscript Under Review (SMUR)
“Any version of a journal article that is under formal review managed by a socially recognized publishing entity. The entity recognizes its responsibility to provide objective expert review and feedback to the author, and, ultimately, to pass judgment on the fitness of the article for publication with an ‘accept’ or ‘reject’ decision. … Content and layout follow publisher’s submission requirements.”

Accepted Manuscript (AM)
“The version of a journal article that has been accepted for publication in a journal. A second party (the ‘publisher’) takes permanent responsibility for the article. Content and layout follow publisher’s submission requirements.”

Proof (P)
“A version of a journal article that is created as part of the publication process. This includes the copy-edited manuscript, … page proofs, and revised proofs. … Content has been changed from Accepted Manuscript; layout is the publisher’s.”

Version of Record (VoR)
“A fixed version of a journal article that has been made available by … a publisher by formally and exclusively declaring the article ‘published’. This includes any ‘early release’ article that is formally identified as being published even before the compilation of a volume issue and assignment of associated metadata, as long as it is citable via some permanent identifier(s). This does not include any ‘early release’ article that has not yet been ‘fixed’ by processes that are still to be applied, such as copy-editing, proof corrections, layout, and typesetting.”

Corrected Version of Record (CVoR)
“A version of the Version of Record of a journal article in which errors in the VoR have been corrected. The errors may be author errors, publisher errors, or other processing errors.”

Enhanced Version of Record (EVoR)
“A version of the Version of Record of a journal article that has been updated or enhanced by the provision of supplemental material.”