Existing preprint for soon-to-be-published articles

[maxkfranz]

Description

Q: What is the name of the feature?

A: Handle this better: Existing preprint for soon-to-be-published articles

Q: What does this feature enable the user to do?

A: Give context for where the existing data comes from (because it might not be completely uptodate w.r.t. the journal). Or they intend to submit the journal version (could be 1yr later).

Q: What information must the user provide to use the feature?

A: N/A

Q: What are the applicable constraints, e.g. compatibility or performance?

A:

• PubMed only gives the data for publications 4-6wks after acceptance (e.g. Nat. Cell. Bio.)
• bioRxiv is basically instant but might be out-of-date (e.g. the authors didn't submit revisions)

Q: How does this feature affect each class of user (persona)?

A:

• Biologist:
• Editor:
• Computational biologist:
• Curator:

Specification

Mockup

Details

• (1) Option: Show some text for an article when it only has bioRxiv metadata, e.g. "This information will be updated automatically a few weeks after acceptance."
• (2) Option: Hide the Biorxiv link / name
• (3) Option: Prompt the user, similar to (1), but ask them to upload the latest preprint to Biorxiv so it's up-to-date with the journal, but there may be administrative hurdles here

[jvwong]

Thank you for contacting bioRxiv.

In response to your question regarding linking preprints to their published versions, we rely on search of title and authors against the Crossref service and on input from authors.

Kind regards, The bioRxiv Team

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... Hi my group is interested in relating published versions of record with preprint versions. I know that bioRxiv tries to make this information available through the API and website.

Can you indicate how this linking is done: Do you (a) rely on external services (e.g. CrossRef, PubMed) (b) Do this yourself programmatically (public code available?) (c) some other way?