New NLM Fact Sheet
New NLM Fact Sheet about Errata, Retraction, Partial Retraction, Corrected and Republished Articles, Duplicate Publication, Comment, Update, Patient Summary, and Republished (Reprinted) Article Policy for MEDLINE®
Selected and reprinted from: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/errata.html and http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/mms/medlineelements.html#cc
Users who search MEDLINE will be informed if they retrieve a citation for an article that has been corrected by an erratum notice, retracted or partially retracted, corrected and republished, been found to duplicate another article, generated a separately published commenting article, been updated by a subsequent article, if a summary for patients has been published, or has been republished (reprinted) in another journal.
| Comment or Correction Type | MEDLINE Display Field Tag | Description |
| Comment on | (CON) | cites the reference upon which the article comments; began use with journal issues published in 1989. |
| Comment in | (CIN) | cites the reference containing a commentary about the article (appears on citation for original article); began use with journal issues published in 1989. |
| Erratum in | (EIN) | cites a published erratum to the article (appears on citation for original article); began use in 1987. |
| Erratum for | (EFR) | cites the original article for which there is a published erratum. |
| Corrected and Republished in | (CRI) | cites the final, correct version of a corrected and republished article (appears on citation for original article). Began use in 1987 as Republished in (RPI); renamed in 2006. |
| Corrected and Republished from | (CRF) | cites the original article subsequently corrected and republished. Began use in 1987 as Republished from (RPF); renamed in 2006. |
| Partial retraction in | (PRIN) | cites the reference containing a partial retraction of the article (appears on citation for original article); began use in 2007. |
| Partial retraction of | (PROF) | cites the article being partially retracted; began use in 2007. |
| Republished in | (RPI) | cites the subsequent (and possibly abridged) version of a republished article (appears on citation for original article); began use in 2006. |
| Republished from | (RPF) | cites the first, originally published article; began use in 2006. |
| Retraction in | (RIN) | cites the retraction of the article (appears on citation for original article); began use in August 1984. |
| Retraction of | (ROF) | cites the article(s) being retracted; began use in August 1984. |
| Update in | (UIN) | cites an updated version of the article (appears on citation for original article); began limited use in 2001. |
| Update of | (UOF) | cites the article being updated; limited use; began limited use in 2001. |
| Summary for patients in | (SPIN) | cites a patient summary article; began use in November 2001 (these records contain Publication Type, Patient Education Handout). See the article ‘Patient Education Handouts in MEDLINE®/PubMed®‘ in the NLM Technical Bulletin at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/ma02/ma02_new_pt.html for more information. |
| Original report in | (ORI) | cites a scientific article associated with the patient summary. |
