1. Crossref metadata for preprints: Discussions and recommendations
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Martyn Rittman, Emily Marchant, Johanna Havemann, Oya Y Rieger, Alainna Therese Wrigley, Alberto Pepe, Alex Mendonça, Benjamin Mudrak, Bianca Kramer, Damian Pattinson, Dasapta Erwin Irawan, Ioana Craciun, Jessica Polka, Johannes Wagner, Michael Markie, Michael Parkin, Michele Avissar-Whiting, Nicole Pfeiffer, Patricia Feeney, Richard Sever, Richard Wynne, Shirley Decker-Lucke, Tony Alves, and Wendy Patterson
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In 2016, Crossref launched a metadata schema for ‘posted content’ with the aim of better accommodating the metadata needs for preprints, working papers, theses, reports, and related outputs, which are not typically peer-reviewed. In 2021, Crossref formed an Advisory Group (AG) to discuss how the quality of metadata for preprints using this schema could be improved. The group focused on four topics: 1) preprints as an article type (rather than subtype of posted-content); 2) relationships to/from preprints; 3) versioning; and 4) withdrawal/removal of preprints. The recommendations that resulted from the group’s deliberations have been published previously. Here we provide further background to the recommendations and report more details of the discussions.
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- 2022
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