Crossref as a source of open bibliographic metadata for preprints

2025/10/16 by Nees Jan van Eck, Ludo Waltman · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · #Academic Publishing and Open Access #Electronic publishing #Metadata #Preprint #Publication #Publishing #Scientific literature #Scientific publishing

paper · doi:10.59350/te702-2ya75

openalex publication_date 2025/10/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/17 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14

Abstract

In most scientific disciplines, the standard way to share new research findings is to publish a research article in a peer-reviewed journal. Increasingly, however, the standard approach to scientific publishing is complemented by alternative approaches, the most significant one being the publication of non-peer-reviewed research articles on preprint servers.

Discussions

• There is considerable discussion about the (lack of) openness of metadata of journal articles, but how do preprint servers perform in terms of openly available metadata? @neesjanvaneck.bsky.social an [bsky, 28 points, 1 comments]

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