As we know many journals are posting preprints (DOI) in advance before the peer-review process. However, there is no guarantee that the preprints get published. The journal's reviewers undergo the peer review processes as usual and may be rejected, but the preprint is still available online. If the author wants to submit the manuscript to another journal, the journal will not consider a manuscript that has been posted as preprint prior to submission. And the other issue of the preprint is sensitivity to plagiarism. Therefore, how we can remove the preprint posted by the former journal permanently before submitting it to another journal?
I am not sure at 100% but my friends told me that it is impossible. As it has the DOI and it is permanent, you can't remove it online. What you can do, yo have to inform the new journal during submission as the plagiarism level will be high
Since the previous pre-print is clearly stating it as a pre-print (and not a final print), you can tell the new journal and explain the case and I am sure they will accept it.
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