COVID-19 research urgently needs Item Type of PrePrint
Dear coders:
As a CoVID-19 researcher -- I see an urgent need for a preprint Item Type in Zotero. The massive explosion of important research on SARS-CoV-2 (since January 2020 there have been 28,799 papers as of 2 Aug with many only available as preprints) cries out for a better solution in Zotero. It is not clear (to me anyway) at present whether it makes sense to merge preprint and peer-reviewed article -- sometimes both have been indexed in PubMed, suggesting that it may make sense to keep them separate. An item type of preprint that otherwise has all the fields (including doi) of a journal article would help greatly right now.
Please put this request on Warp Speed as Zotero's way of supporting CoVID-19 response. I see that the idea has been around for over a year -- so hopefully work has already been done that can be used to push this to fruition quickly.
As a CoVID-19 researcher -- I see an urgent need for a preprint Item Type in Zotero. The massive explosion of important research on SARS-CoV-2 (since January 2020 there have been 28,799 papers as of 2 Aug with many only available as preprints) cries out for a better solution in Zotero. It is not clear (to me anyway) at present whether it makes sense to merge preprint and peer-reviewed article -- sometimes both have been indexed in PubMed, suggesting that it may make sense to keep them separate. An item type of preprint that otherwise has all the fields (including doi) of a journal article would help greatly right now.
Please put this request on Warp Speed as Zotero's way of supporting CoVID-19 response. I see that the idea has been around for over a year -- so hopefully work has already been done that can be used to push this to fruition quickly.
I've been following this practice in my Zotero database.
DOI: 10.1234/5678
publisher: BiorXiv
(journal Abbr. would be container-title-short but I don't understand what that is for a preprint)