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preprints of Rp/Re
Assume I write a reproduction paper using the ReScience Latex template and put a preprint on osf.io. Later I open an issue on github/submission for final publication in ReScience.
However, the preprint PDF might get a DOI from osf.io, so I should mark it as preprint beforehand. Do you have suggestions on how to do that? Am I missing something fundamental? Are ReScience preprint publications discouraged?
No problem with having a preprint before submission. The only "problem" is that the preprint on osf.io will get its DOI and the paper on ReScience will get its DOI too. This is not a real problem I think but it might "dilute" a bit your work by having two DOIs pointing to two papers that are basically the same. I think we already had the case with arxiv preprint (no DOI in this case), but it's basically the same idea.
I suppose that in most real-life cases, the final paper will differ a bit from the initial preprint, so two DOIs are a feature rather than a bug.
Follow-up question: are there preferred preprint and postprint servers? I've got to deposit on HAL (or arXiv then HAL). I've seen published ReScience papers on HAL not arXiv so I'd be tempted to use solely HAL for postprint. Initially I was tempted to use arXiv for preprints (i.e. papers submitted to ReScience) but now arXiv does generate a DOI -- should I use HAL too for preprints?
I'd say: do as you please. It's more a matter of where potential readers will look for new material, and that varies a lot by discipline, employer, etc. I put my papers on HAL as well, because that's almost an obligation for French academics.