Preprint AG meeting notes

Preprint Advisory Group meeting notes

On this page you can find a summary of meetings held by the preprint advisory group.

AG meeting, 25 April 2024

Agenda

  • Update on metadata schema changes.
  • Update on new preprint matching method.
  • Ithenticate removal requests.

Actions

  • Schema changes will be open for community consultation in the coming weeks.
  • Work continues on implementation of the new matching method, although will be delayed by other high priority development work.

AG meeting, 22 February 2024

Agenda

  • Development work starting on implementing preprint matching in production.
  • Proposal for schema changes to support preprints.
  • Follow up discussion on modifying titles for withdrawn preprints.

Actions

  • Crossref to continue implementation of new preprint matching method.
  • Continued feedback from the group about proposed schema changes.
  • Crossref to seek community feedback on schema changes.

AG meeting, 16 November 2023

Agenda

  • Update on preprint matching: public dataset of matches from the whole corpus available, see blog post.
  • Discussion with Anurag Acharya (Google Scholar) about identifying withdrawn preprints.

Actions

  • Members to consider whether to modify titles to indicate withdrawn status.

AG meeting, 24 August 2023

Agenda

  • Presentation of results on preprint/article matching prototype (the code is open).

Actions

  • Plan for production implementation of the best strategy for matching.

AG meeting, 22 June 2023

Agenda

  • Crossref schema change survey and progress.
  • Crossref investigations into improving preprint/article matching.
  • Discussion of the Elife editorial process.

Actions

  • Priority list for schema changes at Crosref.
  • Continue experiments in preprint matching.

AG meeting, 23 February 2023

Agenda

  • Welcome to new members
  • Update on schema changes: upcoming survey of Crossref members to prioritize planned changes.
  • Introduction to the new eLife editorial workflow and how metadata is handled.
  • Introduction to Docmaps.

AG meeting, 27 October 2022

Agenda

  • Upcoming changes to preprint/journal-article notification emails.
  • Discussion of feedback on preprint metadata recommendations:
    • Origin of withdrawals.
    • Representation of editorial progress in preprint metadata.
    • Work of related groups, including NISO and ASAPbio.
    • Interoperability of Crossref metadata with other platforms.

Actions

  • No suggested changes to recommendations as a result of feedback.
  • Review forthcoming report on AG discussions.

AG meeting, 25 August 2022

Agenda

  • Adding summary of AG meetings to the Crossref website.
  • Update on feedback recommendations.
  • Forthcoming COAR/ASPbio recommendations.
  • Crossmark documentation to support registration of DOIs for preprints.

Actions

  • Take feedback on documentation to colleagues looking at website design.
  • Revise the subject line of preprint/journal-article notification emails.

AG meeting, 23 June 2022

Agenda

  • Publication of AG recommendations.
  • Discussion of withdrawal processes.
  • Notify Project from COAR.

Actions

  • Public posting of AG recommendation document.

AG meeting, 26 April 2022

Agenda

  • Multilingualism in preprints

Actions

  • Improve Crossref documentation to explain which fields can have multilingual content and how to deposit the metadata.
  • Clearer guidance from Crossref about how to register DOIs for lay summaries in different languages.

AG meeting, 17 March 2022

Agenda

  • Feedback from recent Crossref Board meeting
  • Discussion on preprint recommendations:
    • Relationships
    • Versioning
  • Process retrospective

Actions

  • Crossref can consider matching preprints to articles and adding them directly to metadata provided the false-positive rate can be quantified and is very low.
  • Crossref should provide more guidance on when to use types of relationships.
  • Recommendation discussion around a ‘citable DOI’ removed from recommendations document.
  • Seek public feedback on recommendations.

AG meeting, 16 February 2022

Agenda

  • Updates to preprint/journal-article notification emails
  • Working group summaries.
  • Metadata recommendation discussions:
    • Withdrawals and removals.
    • Preprints as an article type.
    • Preprint relationships.

Actions

  • Discuss Crossref’s fee structure in a future meeting.
  • Keep the term ‘preprint’ despite limitations if it’s taken too literally.
  • Crossref should consider notifying interested parties when a preprint is withdrawn.

Asynchronous discussion, October 2022

Agenda

  • The balance between best practice and capturing current practice.
  • Followup topics from previous prioritization exercise.

Actions

  • Make recommendations optional, do not force specific practices.
  • Come back to language metadata in a future meeting.

AG meeting, 13 September 2021

Agenda

  • Initial discussion outcomes of prioritization exercise:
    • Version number.
    • Withdrawal/removal and Crossmark metadata.
    • Establish questions to research, look at current practice.

Actions

  • Condense discussions into a list of recommendations.

AG meeting, 26 July 2021

Agenda

  • Outcomes of prioritzation exercise.
    • Preprints as an article type.
    • Relationships to/from preprints.

Actions

  • Continue discussion on other selected topics in next meeting.

AG meeting, 7 June 2021

Agenda

  • Scope of the group.
  • Review of current metadata practice for preprints.

Actions

  • Prioritize topics around preprint metadata.
  • Appoint chair.

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