What if a journal article was published in the year preceding the collection year, but was not available until the collection year?
A. DIISR judges the publication date as being the earliest nominal date. For example, journal articles often have a copyright year and a year for the issue. If the copyright date is 2009, but the issue year is 2010, then the article must be counted in the 2010 collection. The same applies for online articles – this is important, as some journals may publish online in one year, so the online year is the reporting year and the ‘hard copy’ year becomes the publication year.
Related Questions
- Must the Nonfiction Previously Published category have been published during the preceding year? Or can an entry have been published a couple years ago?
- What if a publication was published in the year preceeding the current collection year, but was not available until the current collection year?
- Are there published materials available in the Archives collection?
