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The library used by PKP's applications OJS, OMP and OPS, open source software for scholarly publishing.
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[OPS] Support for preprint withdrawal and removal #6173

Closed alexxxmendonca closed 4 years ago

alexxxmendonca commented 4 years ago

Describe the problem you would like to solve Currently there isn't a formal method of withdrawal and removal of a preprint that has been posted.

The only way of doing it is changing the PDF file with a thumbstone-like file with information of withdrawal. See an example here: https://preprints.scielo.org/index.php/scielo/preprint/view/528

However, the metadata are not updated to include the information that the preprint has been removed or withdrawn and the removal/withdrawal is not reflected on the statistics either.

Describe the solution you'd like ASAPBio has came up with a set of best practices and recommendations for preprint withdrawal and removal at the Defining preprint withdrawal & removal section of this document: https://osf.io/8dn4w/

Who is asking for this feature? It would be important for OPS to follow best practices of preprint withdrawal and removal. Readers, indexing services and the community in general would benefit from this.

asmecher commented 4 years ago

@alexxxmendonca, I think this is already covered by https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/1813, no?

alexxxmendonca commented 4 years ago

@asmecher possibly yes!

I did not remember of that issue, but perhaps that one is more geared towards journal articles? In general, the behavior is very close to preprints, so perhaps I should just add a comment that preprints should be considered and then link to the ASAPbio report as a reference?

asmecher commented 4 years ago

John has made a proposal for how OPS would handle this (with more author control) -- see https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/1813#issuecomment-669427522. Yes, please follow up over there with input on OPS. Closing this one in favour of that!