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Insights from Researcher to Reader

GetFTR had a busy and illuminating time at last month’s Researcher to Reader event, hosting a workshop to identify pain points in the discovery and access process – and, possibly, how GetFTR could help address those. In addition, GetFTR was the convener of a panel discussing research integrity and the role that GetFTR plays to give more visibility to retractions and errata so that researchers do not unknowingly continue to use retracted works.

Workshop Insights

We learnt in the workshop that when using discovery tools, librarians don’t want multiple links to multiple versions (or even the same version!) of the content. What they want, ideally, is a link that is guaranteed to take them to the latest, authoritative version of the research that they have access to – a clear indication that there continues to be a need for a service like GetFTR that signals entitlements and provides quick pathways to the trusted Version-of-Record.

In addition to entitlements and trustworthiness, workshop attendees also told us that researchers want to know what they can do with the content – for example, if they would like to use the research for text and data mining. GetFTR plans to include licence information in the near future so that discovery tools can display this alongside entitlements.

Trust Indicators for Research Integrity

In the panel entitled “Trust Indicators for Research Integrity”, members of GetFTR, ORCID, CREC (Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern – a NISO working group and CUSAP ( Content-update Signaling and Alerting Protocol – and STM Task and Finish group discussed various approaches to improve retraction visibility, how they relate to each other, and where they can further strengthen each other.

Thanks to Tom Demeranville, Jennifer Wright, Hylke Koers, and Heather Staines for running the session.

GetFTR has recently moved into the research integrity space by including Crossref and Retraction Watch data in entitlement responses, so that the many tools that integrate can display retractions and updates at the point of discovery to alert researchers.

The figure shown on the picture below offers a visual guide to understand how things fit together.

GetFTR’s Retration and Errata

You can see examples of how the Retraction and Errata feature works by installing the GetFTR Browser Extension, or when using Psycinfo or in IOPP article references, with more to come.

Do get in touch if you want to learn more, or discuss ways of collaborating with GetFTR.