Indication of withdrawn preprints

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I came across some preprints that have been removed.
Using the Crossref API, there doesn’t seem to be any indication that this is the case?

These are the example DOIs:

  • 10.2139/ssrn.3723171
  • 10.22541/au.160684072.22355285/v1
  • 10.22541/au.161796204.43986088/v1

Am I missing a field that indicates that they have been “withdrawn”?
Is there another way that information should be found out?

Thank you

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Hello, and thanks for your question.

There are various ways to indicate a withdrawal in the metadata record (some better than others) but none of them are strictly required. We only require that the DOI for a withdrawn item resolves to a notification page which indicates the withdrawal there.

10.2139/ssrn.3723171 does resolve to a landing page with a withdrawal notice. But, unfortunately, 10.22541/au.160684072.22355285/v1 and 10.22541/au.161796204.43986088/v1 do not. A 404 error is definitely not sufficient! I can reach out to Authorea about correcting those.

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