CASE STUDY
APA PsycInfo Integration with GetFTR: how GetFTR adds value to A&I services
About PsycInfo
APA Psycinfo is a personalized platform designed to help researchers discover the latest psychological research. It leverages AI and machine learning to assist behavioral scientists in monitoring the latest research trends in their specialty areas.
It provides personalized features, content exploration, and analytics tools for 2,400 journal articles, 430,000 books and chapters, and over 575,000 dissertations. Integration with GetFTR supports one-click access to the full text of global research spanning all subfields of psychology and related disciplines.
APA PsycInfo Market Research
APA carries out annual market research with subscribers of APA PsycInfo. Using surveys and one-on-one interviews the research uncovered a major pain point—lack of frictionless access to full text as well as access to new, cutting-edge research.
Researchers want seamless access to the full text of scholarly content they find during the discovery phase of the research process. In addition, they want serendipitous discovery of research articles leading to new ways of understanding psychological theories and principles.
Why integrate with GetFTR
PsycInfo was one of the first integrators to come on board in 2021 as they recognised the value in providing their users with streamlined access from search results in their database to trusted content.
GetFTR buttons were added to researcher feeds, article records, and related content, whenever the user’s institution subscribed, or content was open access or freely available – including open access articles in hybrid journals where the institution does not subscribe.
APA was up and running in a few months, and valued the support that the GetFTR team provided.
GetFTR signposts availablity of content in APA PsychInfo
How does it work?
APA PsycInfo sends DOI requests (a total which currently stands at approximately 2.5 million requests per year) to the GetFTR API. These are then routed to the appropriate publisher for real-time DOI-level entitlement checks.
APA Psycinfo uses the deferred authentication route where the publisher checks authentication when the user clicks on the first GetFTR link to access content from the publisher’s platform.
The following screenshots show how the GetFTR integration works on the Abstract page and the Related Content examples.
