9th December 2024
Product News
The product team has been busy onboarding new partners, supporting new use cases, and developing new features. Here’s a summary of what we’ve been working on recently:
Content Accessible via GetFTR
We’re fast approaching 70% of scholarly articles accessible via GetFTR, which is an amazing milestone. GetFTR ensures that researchers are accessing the latest version of content, and we’re planning to link earlier versions to published articles via the Browser Extension soon.
We encourage publishers to provide entitlement checks for all content types, not just journal articles, and recommend GetFTR be used as an additional entitlements source alongside KBART to provide more granular and timely entitlement decisions. We hope to welcome aggregators soon and will continue to onboard new integrators and publishers throughout 2025.
Measuring Value
If you’ve logged onto the GetFTR portal recently, you may have noticed reports now include the number of times a GetFTR link was clicked for your content or discovery tool. Additionally, UTM tags have been added to referrer URLs for publisher analytics.
Since the GetFTR Browser Extension added smart links to all websites, we’re delighted that clicks on GetFTR links via the extension have doubled. More information on this can be found on our blog.
Syndication Support
We are pleased to share the news that publishers using GetFTR can now easily share usage metrics in compliance with COUNTER’s best practice on syndicated usage reporting.
Roadmap
Lastly, following the success of working with Crossref to deliver retraction and errata information to discovery resources, we’re running a workshop at Researcher to Reader to generate additional collaboration ideas. If you can’t join us we would still love to hear your thoughts! Just drop me an email if you have an idea for collaboration.
New Partners
This quarter we welcomed the Society for Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) to GetFTR. With the support of Atypon, SEG fully integrated both aspects of the GetFTR service – publisher and integrator. This means SEG has greatly enhanced their content visibility in discovery tools, and shown their commitment to readers by alerting them to which references are available to them directly from the reference list.
Taylor & Francis have extended their partnership with GetFTR and signed up their books to the GetFTR publisher service ensuring that their books can be easily discovered and accessed via discovery resources. ASM and RSNA have also integrated their references with GetFTR, with CABI and GSL coming soon.
We are also pleased to announce that IOPP is the first publisher to integrate Retraction and Errata information into their references. Alongside signposting readers to the content they are entitled to read, IOPP is now alerting them to any available retraction and errata information before they click to read the article.
Case Studies: APA PsycInfo Integration
Last month we published a Case Study showcasing the benefits of integrating APA PsycInfo with GetFTR. APA said: “GetFTR links significantly enhance the efficiency of research and improve user experience. From survey results, users discover articles that they wouldn’t have otherwise seen, and it saves a tremendous amount of time in locating full text”. The full case study is available on our blog.
If you would like to find out more about becoming an integrator, please get in touch.
Case Studies: APA PsycInfo Integration
We are looking forward to the Researcher to Reader conference in February next year where we will be running a workshop and hosting a panel. We would love to see you there if you are going.
We are also attending the NISO Plus conference in Baltimore and will be presenting a session there.
We would like to thank you all for your support throughout 2024 and look forward to working with you in the New Year. Happy holidays to all.
All of our news can be read on our blog at https://www.getfulltextresearch.com/blog.
