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Publish Ahead of Print

SAGE OnlineFirst is a feature offered on the homepage of S&G through SAGE Journals Online. It allows final revision articles (completed articles in queue for assignment to an upcoming issue) to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final S&G print and online issue. This feature is commonly referred to as “publish ahead of print,” “publish before print,” or “continuous publishing”.

See http://sag.sagepub.com

SAGE OnlineFirst provides clear benefits to all researchers and users of S&G’s online content. The feature allows subscribers and members the ability to access the very latest papers in the field. Authors also benefit from greatly reduced lead times between submission and publication of articles. Without OnlineFirst, an author's work would only appear online once a “finalized” S&G issue was sent to print.

However, with OnlineFirst, S&G manuscripts can appear online while other articles are being completed for an upcoming issue. An author’s research will therefore reach its audience more quickly, enabling an article to receive greater usage and exposure, including earlier citation opportunities by related work.

Each OnlineFirst S&G manuscript is citable, the official publication date being the date of the manuscript's first online posting. In place of page numbers, which are assigned along with the final issue, OnlineFirst papers are assigned DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers), from the DOI Foundation (http://www.doi.org). DOIs provide a persistent, permanent way to identify manuscripts published in the online environment, even after they are assigned to a print issue and given an actual volume, issue, and first page number. Each article DOI is registered with CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org.), allowing permanent resolution to each article and giving publishers the ability to link their references to S&G articles whenever they are cited.

Once a S&G OnlineFirst article is assigned to its final issue and given its bibliographic data, such as volume, issue, and first page number, the hosting of the article online transitions from the OnlineFirst listing to that of the completed issue. In other words, users will be able to locate the article via S&G’s main archive page or the current issue link rather than the OnlineFirst page. Citations using either the DOI or the bibliographic data will both resolve to the final article. The publish-ahead-of-print version of the article will remain available but as a version to the final article. The primary, completed article will be the prominent article found when linking into the DOI or article URL.

Please visit http://sag.sagepub.com to view all S&G OnlineFirst article postings. Readers and authors alike are encouraged to sign up for S&G’s OnlineFirst email alert option, ensuring immediate notification each time a paper is published online first. Email alerts are also available for ongoing S&G tables of contents and for alerts by author name and keyword. Visit http://sag.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts and sign up today.