New Reference Type: Preprint?

[iandol]

Hi,

Perhaps this is biased by my academic field, but as academic publishing is changing I see that preprint servers are becoming common for more and more academic fields. I know Bookends is very flexible and I can change this for myself, but just wondered if Bookends shouldn't have a dedicated Preprint reference type by default?

[NilsMS]

I agree. Such references are getting more common every day also in my field of research. Of course, it would be beautiful if BE reminded me somehow to turn the Preprint-reference into a full-grown reference as soon as the paper is finally published.

Cheers,

Nils

[Jon]

It would be easy to add new reference Types for first-time installs. But not for existing users, because it would mean consuming User-defined Types that may have already been redefined by the user.

Jon
Sonny Software

[iandol]

OK there is no way to add the Preprint type without using Unused 0-20, adding a Field21 or something? I agree you can't overwrite any existing fields...

NilsMS — I'd love this too, but I don't think there is an accepted standard on how to forward link from a preprint to the published paper?

And slightly offtopic (though perhaps they will allow a more programmatic search bookends can add to its search), but the Open Science Foundation has just launched a cool meta preprint repository:

https://osf.io/preprints/

You can search and add a preprint and it hooks into many of the existing preprint servers. They are also offering open source code and help to set up a new subject specific arxiv...

[Jon]

BTW, we do have an In Press Type, which would seem to be similar, if not identical to, Preprint.

Jon
Sonny Software