Firstly I request the Editors. Many comply. See the beautiful mail pasted below:

----- Forwarded Message -----

From: Phytotaxa editorial/production office

To: [email protected]

Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 2:54 AM

Subject: Page issue - 178 (4)

Dear colleague,

We regret hear the error (errors) in your paper. The correct page number

for your paper is 298–300. I understand that it is one of a thousand for

us but one of one for you and I can understand your feeling.  But this

paper was now published and we can not correct what was published.

However, we can publish an erratum as soon as possible.  Please send us a

word file to show how you want the erratum be to worded. 

Zootaxa editorial/production team

Chief Editor, Zhi-Qiang Zhang

www.mapress.com/zootaxa

If the Editors do not co-operate, then  I try to publish else where. See the PDF of the attached page from Bean Bag.

I also published one such mistake made by editorial staff  in one of my later publications.  See the second publication cited under references (PDF attached).

Thank you so much dear Dr. Subir Bandyopadhyay for your valuable answer. 

If it is a serious mistake, then write to the editor for corrections if the form of errata in the next issue.

Most of the researchers battle with such a problem, but the problem seems to have no immediate solution, except bringing same into the notice of the editors. Still, online journals can easily overcome the problem by uploading a revised or updated copy of the article. while as in case of print journal, the editor can be requested to issue a corrigendum to this effect in the subsequent issue.

Once published the online journals should not replace the original one with an updated one.

Thank you so much dear Dr. Ramesh Pandita for your valuable answer. 

I think that if the paper has been published it is impossible to correct it.

Thank you Derra Mourad

If the mistake occur in a published book ,the mistake(s)can corrected in the second edition of this book, but it it happened in a published journal ,it is too difficult or impossible to correct.

Thank you Dr. Ali Alhayany for your answer.

No way, its impossible to correct it.

Thank you Dr. Salwan for your answer.

Very simple, writing a request letter to the editor for correction, if the mistake is not trivial. 

Thank you Dr. Faramarz E. Seraji for your answer.

I think that everyone can write another article in the sequel. In it, say that the problem was finalized and the correct results are presented now. Anyone can be wrong. Science is a complex process and many views can be revised.

It's dependent of the mistake, if this mistake is trivial eg :

scientific mistake and included in the perspective of paper. We can writing to the editor a simple letter indicated as revision

You can write a letter to the editor for correction.

It's interesting to see the colleagues accepting the impossibility of correcting the 'mistake' in the published journal. We, the faculties, academicians, must be raising voice against this sort of 'impossibility'. The journal shouldn't be given 'sole' authority to represent 'us' in the distorted way in the process of mistakes. Therefore, the Journal including the Editorial Board must be held responsible for the 'mistake' and must be told to re-print the issues if the mistake reverses the research result. If minor/spelling/ sentence/syntactic mistakes take place, the journal should/must attach corrigendum.

Hope we should be serious about mistakes.

Thank you dear Dr. Viola Vambol for your valuable answer.

Thank you dear Dr. Haddad Boumediene for your valuable answer.

Thank you dear Dr. Daniel Gutiérrez Sánchez for your valuable answer.

Thank you dear Dr. Mohammad Taher Hossain Salim for your valuable and frank answer. I highly appreciate your answer.

Dear Taher:

If have written: Therefore, the Journal including the Editorial Board must be held responsible for the 'mistake' and must be told to re-print the issues if the mistake reverses the research result.

Here lies the importance of good periodicals. They do not publish anything till the authors completely agree with the finalized manuscript.

Difficult to correct in the ongoing issue. But the same can be corrected in future issues.

send the correction in anew message to the Journal that may be useful.

Dear  Dr. Raid M. Al-Ani

It is best to contact the editor and inform him of the mistake, and correction is necessary especially if the error is scientific and in the basis of research.

Mistakes are ungoing process in science liteartures. It is not possible by Editorial board/Editors to find out/varify the mistakes of authors/published papaers. Especially, I noticed that very famous authors/researchers pubilshed papers with scientific errors. In nut shell mistakes in scientific literaures/pubilshed articles are not  fully avoided. if possible contact to the corresponding authors for mistakes/errors and find out the solutions/suggestions for future publications. 

Thank you Anirbid Sircar  for your answer.

Thank you Afkar Hadi for your answer.

Thank you Houda Kawas for your answer.

Thank you Sudhanshu Shekhar Behera for your answer.

Thank you István Bányász for your answer.

This can be corrected by sending an explanatory message to the editor of the journal, provided that the clarification is published in the subsequent issue of the journal.

Thank you Isam Issa Omran for your answer.

Most journals have ''department of error'', and if you send your letter to the editor, he/she will send it to this department for immediate action.

I agree with Dr. Salwan Ali Abed Al-Hamzawi. Best regards.

May be to crrect it in a new edition. Thanks for sharing your question.

Mistakes should be avoided if you find there is mistake in the publication find a way to correct the same based on the journal that you have opted for publications

Ensure with your continuous fallow ups with editors that the mistakes are corrected

I keep a master copy with corrections in case a second edition is published.

@Faramarz E. Seraji: [write] a request letter to the editor for correction, if the mistake is not trivial.

Often, Editors are unwilling to publish errata for a published article, since, in an Editor's view, that calls attention to a faulty review and editing process by the journal.

A safer, more certain path is tod write a new paper and clearly call attention to corrigendena or Latin corrigere (things to be corrected) in a previously published paper.

I want to disagree that it is impossible to correct an error in a published article. Minor errors are usually sorted out few days after publication after which major indexing, uploading of files into major databases are done. It will be too rigid for any serious publisher not to atleast for newly published article. If error is in the part of the authors, this may attract a fee, because they have initially agreed the proof copy is error free.

If an article has been published long ago, this will be understandable, the chances for correction maybe very minimal and if agreed upon may attract a fee. In case of significant changes in results for old articles, a new version can be made and proposed to the publisher, while the old edition cannot be taken off circulation. For publishers, who are crossref member, they can use the Crossmark service where new versions of such article will be notified by the end user at just a click of the crossmark logo in the article.

Nothing impossible to correcte, I sea you will find a way to do this matter.

thanks

Hi,

When i find a mistake in any paper, I write a letter to the editor for correction. I do this action several times with several editors.

With my best regards!

Dr. Adel OUESLATI

Dear Dr. Raid

Thank you for sharing this question.

If the paper is not published yet , I can send a letter to the editor to correct the mistake , but if the paper has been published it is impossible to correct it as I think.

Best Regards

Write a letter to Editor ERRATUM

Since the error can be misleading, it is best to inform the journal about it. You can write to the journal mentioning the error, the correction, and how it can impact your paper. The journal will then either update the online version or add a note, comment, or erratum.

This problem can be solved by sending a message to the editors

Dear Abd Al

Intellectual question!!

Academicians i.e. teachers, scientists, engineers, doctors, lawyer, astronauts, etc have an important role in the development of society. They are the creamy layer and the building block for the society. No society can flourish without their contribution.

Thanks

Dear Colleagues, Good Day,

"What should I do If I find out that there is a typo (repeated many times) in a recently published paper of mine at Elsevier?

.......

Contact the editor you worked with and let them know. They will advise you of your options and hopefully work with you to update the online version and (if possible) either delay or fix the print version.",...

Please, try and see the website link for more answers,...

https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/44611/what-should-i-do-if-i-find-out-that-there-is-a-typo-repeated-many-times-in-a-r

Well Prof , mistakes such as typo or grammar , reviewers will notify it and all the chain of mails and comments and editing will happen.

Now, technicality is flawed or something wrong is documented again it will be rejected.

Still if it goes thru then there is a problem , I do not where ??

What about the reviewers? Blind reviewing? Two or three peer reviewers?

Co-authors? I think it is impossible to correct such mistake (If applicable).

Regards, Emad

I agree with Dr. Emad Kamil Hussein. However, it is better to inform to the editor. Thanks..

From my experience, it is better to write to the editor.

Dr. Raid M. Al-Ani,

Thanks for a vital and relevant question to research publications.

It happens with many workers. A scientific article may not be always hundred percent error free. Several researchers have already expressed their views on the topic. From the statements, it seems that once an article is published, the correction of error is really tough job.

Publisher always takes final confirmation from the author before publishing. Generally, a very short span of time is allotted for the final proof checking and confirmation. Inspite of dedicated efforts, the final proof may contain error/s.

The only measure is publishing 'errata' in the next issue, if chief editor/publisher agrees.

Some stated ".. writing of another article in the seque". Is it possible?

Regards to all

It seems to me that hard to modify again or asking publisher to replace the correct one,. so that better to correct it before it publish. Sometimes, I ask my colleagues to read before I really sure send it to the publisher. Once the article publish that mean the best one, no correction anymore.

You could either contact the author(s) directly to discuss the matter informally, or you could write a formal letter to the editor.

Dear Barbara

I think : writing a request letter to the editor for correction, if the mistake is not trivial.

Regards

Ali 

It happens to me a few times. After identifying such events, I took new lessions of not to continue such mistakes.

Dear Al Ani,

When your article is published and there is a mistake it is hard to modify or even impossible to correct it. Only thing you can inform the editor about it. The editor of journal then can added a correction list in same/ next issue but unfortunately this practice is rare.

thanks

Simply, write a letter to the editor of journal about this situation.

Regards,

If a serious issue then write to the editor immediately. The mistake can be corrected in the next edition if it is a book or even in the case of an online journals.

Writing a request letter to the editor for correction

Regards,

Contact to the editor for the correction of it.

Repetition of answers!

I have an experience where after proof reading, journal did not take care of corrections. What should we do when corrections sent after proof reading are not considered in published manuscript??

".........after proof reading, journal did not take care of corrections."

Proof reading is the scope for corrections. Journal should take care of the corrections mentioned in the corrected-proof (annotated proof). If not considered, then author has the right to draw the attention of the editor.

But, after publication of the article (online or print), the request for correction is not generally considered.

I think let the mistakes be there if anyone finds any mistake they will contact the corrosponding author. And I guess corrosponding author will be helpful rather it's totally his/her responsibility.

Despite of honest efforts, a published article may have few mistakes/errors. But usually there is no option of corrections. Readers may draw the attention of the corresponding author or editor on the mistakes/errors.

The incorporation of a section ('errata') in the journal may solve such type of problems.