[jats-list] Embedding correction notices into the corrected article

Subject: [jats-list] Embedding correction notices into the corrected article
From: "Sheedy, Kathleen ksheedy@xxxxxxx" <jats-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 15:30:25 -0000
Hello -

At the American Psychological Association, we are attempting to replicate in
our HTML presentation a practice we have long used with PDFs - appending
correction notices (errata) to original articles so that they are immediately
available to the reader. An example of such an amended PDF can be found at
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2021-63321-001.pdf. Our goal in modifying the
HTML presentation to match the PDF presentation is to provide full context for
all users - both humans and machines - as soon as they land on the original
article.

The current HTML presentation of the above article is here:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2021-63321-001. There are visual cues
indicating to a human reader that a correction has been issued, with links to
the separately published correction. However, our AI Insights feature, which
interrogates the article XML, is not aware of the correction and thus does not
provide the full context of the article to the user in its summary and
responses to user prompts.

We are using the NLM 3.0 DTD, with a few elements borrowed from JATS 1.0 and
with the <response> and <front-stub> elements excluded. We are thinking of
using the <sub-article> element to bring in the content of the correction
notice, minus the <related-article> element, since that is already present in
the main <article>. This approach does break JATS a bit, since a separately
published correction is not truly a subunit of the original article, but it
was the best approach we could think of given that around 16% of the
correction notices in our backfile contain tables, figures, and/or
appendixes.

Here is an example of what such a <sub-article> would look like:

<article>
. . .
</floats-group>
<sub-article article-type="cx-reprint" structure-type="article">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>Journal of Experimental Psychology: General</journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="apaID">xge_151_1_262</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1037/xge0001163</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="pi-uid">2022-20753-001</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>Correction to Aussems, Mumford, and Kita
(2021)</article-title>
</title-group>
<pub-date pub-type="online"><string-date><month number="1">January</month>
<day>13</day>, <year>2022</year></string-date></pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="print"><string-date><month number="1">January</month>
<year>2022</year></string-date></pub-date>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body>
<sec id="s100"><p align="left">In the article &#8220;Prior Experience With
Unlabeled Actions Promotes 3-Year-Old Children&#8217;s Verb Learning&#8221; by
Suzanne Aussems, Katherine H. Mumford, and Sotaro Kita (<italic>Journal of
Experimental Psychology: General</italic>. Advance online publication. July
15, 2021. <ext-link xmlns:xlink=http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink
ext-link-type="uri" specific-use="live"
xlink:href=http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001071>http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge
0001071</ext-link<http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001071%3c/ext-link>>),
acknowledgment of and formatting for Economic and Social Research Council
funding was omitted. The author note and copyright line now reflect the
standard acknowledgment of and formatting for the funding received for this
article.</p><p align="left">All versions of this article have been
corrected.</p>
</sec>
</body>
</sub-article>
</article>

I'm interested in people's thoughts on this approach and if there are
alternatives that perhaps we haven't thought of.

Looking forward to your input.

Kathleen Sheedy
Full-Text Production Manager
APA Publishing
American Psychological Association

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