Definitions
According to DeCS, Erratum are types of publications defined as:
“Work consisting of an acknowledgment of an error, issued by a publisher, editor, or author. It customarily cites the source where the error occurred, giving complete bibliographic data for retrieval. In the case of books and monographs, author, title, imprint, paging, and other helpful references will be given; in the case of journal articles, the author, title, paging, and journal reference will be shown. An erratum notice is variously cited as Errata or Corrigenda.“
Treatment of erratum in periodical articles
In LILACS, each periodical article is represented by a record in the database. When a periodical article is corrected by errata, in addition to the article record, LILACS must also have a record of the erratum, which identifies that a particular article was corrected. These will be two distinct records, like records for different articles, but are linked through the correct completion of the fields indicated below.
Record of the erratum
To report the record of the erratum in LILACS of the record of the article that this erratum corrects, it is necessary to include the data below:
| Name of field | Number of field | Content of field |
|---|---|---|
| Electronic Address | 08 | Include the word “Erratum” in subfield z, as indicated: ^zErratum |
| Personal author | 10 | Include the authors of the corrected article |
| Title | 12 | Include the titles of the corrected article + : [erratum] |
| Publication type | 71 | Include the Publication type Erratum |
| General Note | 500 | Include the Unique Identifier (Id) of the article corrected in LILACS in the following way: Erratum reference to the Id [record number]. |
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Record of a corrected article
| Name of field | Number of field | Content of field |
|---|---|---|
| General Note | 500 | Include the Unique Identifier (Id) of the erratum in LILACS in the following way: Erratum in the Id [record number] |
In the case that the erratum corrects some data that was described by the LILACS Methodology, such as author or title (among others), this data must also be corrected in LILACS.
Special case
1 – This example looks at republished articles that were, for this reason, deleted from LILACS.
Link for the article in SciELo: [1] (in Portuguese) ID of the record in LILACS: 618144
Alterations in the Original record
- As it was without a title[12], one was adapted from the first paragraph: Correction of the omission of due credit to the journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) of articles published in the Revista Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, as part of an agreement between the two journals: [erratum]
- Included in the General Note[500]: Erratum refers to the Ids 595950, 600750, 610678 and 610695 of republished articles deleted from LILACS
- Type of Publication[71]: Erratum
- Electronic address[8]: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-81232012000300029^ien^zErratum