Product Update

Improved API: Discovery tools are now able to take advantage of faster entitlement decisions where publishers have shared entitlements with GetFTR. Please contact us so that we can support your migration to the latest API; we will deprecate the existing service at the end of this quarter.

Retraction and Errata: In 2023 we carried out a survey asking about the importance of signaling Retraction and Errata information at the point of discovery. ​​The results indicated that our community of librarians, researchers, publishers, and discovery resources agreed that it was very important and that GetFTR should play a role in helping to communicate the status of a document to researchers. We are extending the GetFTR service to deliver information about the document status, using Crossref and Retraction Watch data. Read more about it here. 

It is really important that publishers keep this information up to date in Crossref so we can provide accurate information to researchers.

Open Access Service: GetFTR has developed a service which signposts open access and free content. This service helps researchers discover and access even more content  when the use a discovery service that has integrated with GetFTR, or when they use the GetFTR Browser Extension. The service will signal the availability of more than 20 million open access and free articles, including those from publishers who do not participate directly in GetFTR. We know that library management systems do not always spot free or OA content, particularly in hybrid journals, so libraries can be confident their researchers are able to reach even more valuable content. Read more here