GetFTR Blog

Going to Researcher to Reader? Don’t forget to sign up for our workshop!

Going to Researcher to Reader, 25-26 Februry 2025? If so, don’t forget to sign up for our workshop: How can collaborative infrastructure support researchers? Researchers start their discovery journey using a variety of different tools, and identifying whether content is accessible

ASM and RSNA Integrate GetFTR to Enhance Access from Article References

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) have become the latest publishers to incorporate Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) links within their article references. This new feature allows researchers to quickly identify which cited articles are

IOPP integrates GetFTR retraction and errata service to further improve research integrity 

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) is pleased to announce that its retraction and errata feature has been adopted by IOP Publishing (IOPP) and integrated into its article reference on its content platform, IOPscience. This enhancement aims to keep researchers informed

Syndicated usage reporting and GetFTR

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. GetFTR allows publishers to share their own internal Customer

More Researchers Benefit from GetFTR Links to Trusted Content

The GetFTR Browser Extension signals the availability of full-text on all websites, including search engines, social media, new outlets, reference sites, library discovery resources and many more.

SEG Partners with GetFTR to Enhance Research Discovery

The Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) has recently expanded its commitment to providing streamlined access to their cutting-edge research by joining GetFTR, a cross industry initiative designed to provide trusted pathways to research.

Measuring Usage via GetFTR

GetFTR and its publisher partners provide real time entitlement decisions, enabling discovery tools to signal to researchers where content has been made available via institutional subscriptions or Open Access, to add links to trusted content. One of the most common questions publishers ask is

APA PsycInfo A&I Integration Experience

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APA Psycinfo is a personalized platform for discovery of the latest psychological research. It leverages AI and machine learning to assist behavioral scientists in monitoring the latest research trends in their specialty areas.

IEEE: latest publisher to join GetFTR

IEEE demonstrates their commitment to supporting researchers in discovering and accessing trusted content when using popular discovery tools. GetFTR is pleased to announce that IEEE has joined its growing network of organizations

GetFTR Browser Extension Update

GetFTR has extended support to all websites via its Browser Extension, enabling researchers to identify full text that has been made available to them via institution subscriptions or open access no matter where they are on the web.

Interview with Olly Rickard, Atypon

Why did Atypon decide to partner with GetFTR and how does the partnership benefit their publisher clients? We talked to Olly Rickard, Senior Product Manager with Atypon about the importance of the partnership with GetFTR.

GetFTR Enhances Support for Open Access Publishers

In an exciting development for the research community, we are expanding our services for open access publishers. Researchers tell us that they can find it hard to identify open access content in their discovery tools and may be

How R Discovery achieved increased engagement with GetFTR

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In January 2021, CACTUS integrated their research discovery tool, R Discovery, with GetFTR, marking one of the earliest adoptions of this cross-industry initiative. CACTUS conducted their own study to

Case Study: Thieme’s Integration with GetFTR

Thieme, a leading provider of information and services to improve healthcare and health, recently joined GetFTR, further expanding GetFTR’s network of publishers. One of Thieme’s key goals is to ensure streamlined access

Enhancing Access and Visibility: Thieme’s Integration with GetFTR

Thieme, a leading provider of information and services to improve healthcare and health, recently joined GetFTR, further expanding GetFTR's network of publishers. One of Thieme's key goals is to ensure

GetFTR Extends Retraction and Errata Service to All Partners

GetFTR has extended its Retraction and Errata service to all integrator partners. This rollout enables partners such as discovery resources and tools, Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) and publishers who have integrated their references

GetFTR Integrator Webinar: 11th June 2024

Please join us for a free webinar on new integration initiatives, including the GetFTR OA service, and the upcoming rollout of Retraction and Errata information to all our discovery partners. Also hear from two of our discovery partners about how GetFTR has improved their users' experience.

Press Release: GetFTR collaborates with Crossref to strengthen research integrity

GetFTR is proud to announce a significant enhancement to their core service which will expose retraction and errata information to researchers at the point of discovery. This collaboration with Crossref marks

GetFTR Webinar: Recording and Slides available

We were pleased to welcome so many librarians, publishers, and others from across our community to our webinar last month. Thanks to Lisa Janike Hinchliffe, Heather Staines, Dianne Benham and Hylke Koers for such an interesting and informative session.

Tracy Gardner joins GetFTR as Head of Marketing

Tracy Gardner joins GetFTR as of Head of Marketing to amplify its value proposition with the academic community. GetFTR, a cross-industry initiative designed to streamline the researchers online journey from discovery to access, is pleased to welcome Tracy to the team. 

Happy 4th Anniversary! How GetFTR is evolving to meet the needs of the research community.

Back in March 2020, we launched GetFTR so that discovery tools (such as Mendeley and Dimensions), could alert researchers to content that their institution had made available to them, via subscriptions or open access.

GetFTR Reports 350% increase in entitlement checks since launch of Browser Extension

Just a few months after its launch we are pleased to share an update on the GetFTR Browser Extension, including the significant increase in entitlement check (which means more GetFTR buttons being displayed

Free Webinar: General Update and Information for Librarians

GetFTR will be hosting a free webinar on March 25th at 10am EDT, 2pm GMT, 3PM CET. The event is aimed at librarians but is open to anyone interested in learning more about how GetFTR supports the research community.

Thieme go live and IOPP integrates GetFTR indicators with article references

Thieme, a leading provider of information and services in the medical and healthcare sector, has recently joined GetFTR, further expanding GetFTR’s network of publishers. Additionally, existing publishing partner IOPP has enhanced its offerings

GetFTR Plans for Retraction & Errata

At the end of 2023, we launched a survey to get your feedback on a new concept for GetFTR; signaling of retractions and errata. We asked you if it’s important to inform researchers of retractions and updates at the point of discovery

Meet us at NISO Plus, R2R, ER&L and UKSG

Our meeting diary is looking busy for the first few months of 2024, we hope to see many of our friends and colleagues at the following events. Dianne, Heather and Hyke would be delighted to meet with publishers, librarians, researchers

GetFTR increases visibility of OA and Free articles

GetFTR has developed a service which will signpost researchers to Open Access and free content while searching in a discovery service which has integrated with GetFTR, or when using the GetFTR Browser Extension. 

Taylor & Francis Online Streamlines Researcher Access to Cited Articles Through GetFTR Integration

Researchers will experience streamlined access to cited articles with the addition of GetFTR (Get Full Text Research) to the references sections of Taylor & Francis...

ASM International, AACR and SciSummary latest to join GetFTR

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), ASM International, and SciSummary, become the latest partners to join GetFTR - Get Full Text Research. GetFTR provides researchers with quicker

8 Reasons Researchers should use the GetFTR Browser Extension

Following a successful beta, the GetFTR Browser Extension officially launched last month and feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. The GetFTR Browser Extension is free-to-use resource...

American Chemical Society (ACS) Enhances Researcher Experience with Integration of GetFTR into Article References

ACS is the latest publisher to integrate GetFTR with their article references. This means GetFTR indicators will signpost

GetFTR now works with Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science and more

GetFTR, the service which helps streamline the researcher’s journey from discovery to access, has announced the launch of the GetFTR Browser Extension. The free GetFTR browser extension extends the core service

CABI, Edward Elgar & Royal College of Surgeons of England take advantage of GetFTR’s “free tier” initiative.

GetFTR is delighted to welcome three new publishing organizations, all of whom have recently gone live with GetFTR

How GetFTR supports the ScienceDirect content syndication pilot

At the start of 2022, Elsevier announced a collaboration to make articles from selected journals from five of the largest publishers and societies visible and discoverable on ScienceDirect.
CACTUS uses GetFTR and increases full-text views by 20%

CACTUS uses GetFTR to provide researchers with a more personalised experience and increases full-text views by 20%

Cactus integrated their research discovery tool - R Discovery - with GetFTR to improve the research journey. CACTUS recorded...

Sage becomes latest publisher to join GetFTR

Sage becomes the latest publisher to join the GetFTR – Get Full Text Research – service, providing users of its research quicker access to the published content they are entitled to via their institutional subscriptions as well as access to the latest hybrid..

Streamlined access to scholarly content with the GetFTR browser extension

We are delighted to share an update on the GetFTR Browser Extension. This service works with major discovery resources such as Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science and EBSCO Discovery Service, signalling....

Oxford University Press and Geological Society of London go live with GetFTR

OUP will include its  books as well as journals in the GetFTR service and would like to ask all discovery services using GetFTR to send entitlement checks for both content types so they can quickly direct readers to content..
ResearchGate integrates with GetFTR

ResearchGate integrates with GetFTR

GetFTR has today announced that ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, has integrated with the service as part of an expanded offering for publishers. Over the last few months, GetFTR has been building, and ResearchGate...
GetFTR Webinar: Update and new use cases

GetFTR Webinar: Update and new use cases

Launched more than three years ago, GetFTR continues to grow and develop. We are adding new publishers, discovery services, and integrators, and are opening up new use cases where GetFTR is adding value in exciting and sometimes unforeseen ways...

Wiley improve their user experience with GetFTR

Wiley joins Elsevier as the second Publisher to integrate Wiley Online Library’s article references with GetFTR. Researchers are often unaware, when reviewing the references in academic articles, which of the cited articles are available to them, either...

New service: GetFTR Browser Extension

GetFTR is delighted to share news of a planned new service, freely available to researchers, which will help them get faster access to content they are entitled to read (either via their institutional subscription or because the content is open access)....

ASM and GetFTR Case Study to demonstrate how GetFTR impacts usage

Like many Society publishers, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) is always looking for better ways to serve its community and ensure research is reaching the people who need it. They are acutely...

Understand GetFTR in just 5 minutes

We were delighted to attend the STM Start-up fair in London last month. It was great to meet many of our colleagues in person and we appreciated the opportunity to make new connections with potential partners. GetFTR was launched during STM Week 3 years...

GetFTR welcomes American Meteorological Society and KGL PubFactory as new partners for 2023

KGL PubFactory becomes the latest platform provider to facilitate access to GetFTR as American Meteorological Society (AMS) becomes the first publisher to join GetFTR...

GetFTR 2022 End of Year Roundup

Earlier this month we attended the STM Conference to present where we are three years on, after our announcement at STM back in December 2019. We provided an update on our partners, who now total 34, with more joining in the new year. We...

American Diabetes Association and American Physiological Society join GetFTR as publishing partners

There are now 18 publishers working with GetFTR to streamline access to their content. Get Full Text Research (GetFTR)...

GetFTR welcomes two new publishers to a new program that waives costs for smaller organisations

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) is pleased to welcome Edinburgh University Press (EUP) and Wageningen Academic Publishers to the service under the new  “free tier” program...

GetFTR: What’s New and What’s Coming Up

In case you missed it – you can now watch a recording of our latest Publisher webinar. Suitable for all, during this short webinar we briefly introduced the service and provided updates on recent and forthcoming developments, before we spent time...

GetFTR user research

The publishing space and market, how we access and expect to access content, is one of constant evolution. Two years ago when we developed the GetFTR proposition, it was to meet several core needs: Improve access to scholarly content. Remove some of the noise researchers face around which....

Exploring new use cases

Earlier this week we ran the latest in our series of webinars to look at how publisher and discovery services are utilizing GetFTR to streamline access to content for researchers. Joined by guest speakers: Reference lists, Laird Barrett, Group Product Manager, Springer Nature. Content hosting, Jud....

GetFTR’s journey so far

In celebration of two years since GetFTR received its’ first entitlement request – we have taken a look back at our journey so far. The proposition we seek to address, how we are aiming to do that and so of the key ways in which we have had impact so far. Take a scroll through and of course don’t hesitate....

GetFTR now supports streamlined access to over 51% of global research output

The service continues to expand its reach across the sector through new partnerships with IOP Publishing, AIAA Publications, ASM, DeepDyve, SciFinder and Scopus. March....

GetFTR invites Aggregators to join

“We are calling on Aggregators to engage with us and provide streamlined pathways to aggregated content via Discovery Services and other third-party tools that use GetFTR.” In our last Scholarly Kitchen post, Ralph Youngen and Todd Toler discussed how....

GetFTR supports ScienceDirect pilot to improve research discovery and access

Today has seen the announcement of a ScienceDirect pilot, with several publishers, which will seek to better understand how publishers can work together to help....

APA PsycInfo and R Discovery, CACTUS join GetFTR

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) is pleased to welcome two new integrator partners, APA PsycInfo and R Discovery from CACTUS. The addition of these integrators marks an auspicious start to the year for GetFTR....

GetFTR: dataflows and user privacy

Data privacy is a topic that, rightly so, is top-of-mind for many researchers and organisations that are active in the space of scholarly communications. GetFTR is committed to safeguarding the privacy of its users, and we take this principle to heart....

MyScienceWork partners with GetFTR: a new streamlined direction towards content

Research management tech provider MyScienceWork (MSW) is pleased to announce its latest partnership with Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), to support a....

Breaking down access barriers – Join GetFTR, SeamlessAccess and CONNECT

On the 14th December, Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer at STM Solutions, and Heather Staines, Manager of Publisher Outreach at Delta Think, will be joining....

Would you like to help shape the future of GetFTR?

Since launch, GetFTR has worked collaboratively with the community to help drive its development. We would like to call for your feedback once again to help determine our 2021 roadmap and beyond. Your feedback will help shape the....

Silverchair partners American Medical Association and Rockefeller University Press join GetFTR

The American Medical Association and Rockefeller University Press have today announced their partnership with Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), a free-to-use....

Leading non-profit physical sciences publisher, AIP Publishing joins GetFTR

AIP Publishing, a leading not-for-profit scholarly publisher in the physical sciences has fully implemented GetFTR (Get Full Text Research), enabling global researchers to benefit from faster and streamlined....

Come and talk to us – Forthcoming Seminars

As for many, our ability to be able to come and meet you all and talk face-to-face has been a little difficult over the last 18 months, and so we are continuing with our online seminar series for the community. Where next? If you are an Integrator, please join....

Leading independent platform partner, Silverchair, joins GetFTR

Silverchair, the leading independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, becomes the second platform to use GetFTR (Get Full Text Research) technology, supporting a more....

GetFTR and SeamlessAccess – How can these services help speed the researcher journey?

Researchers have more ways than ever to find the research articles they need, with a multitude of content discovery services delivering a constantly updated list of....

Future Science Group goes live with GetFTR

Scientific Publisher Future Science Group becomes 8th publisher to go live with GetFTR. 19th April 2021 Future Science Group (FSG) has today joined Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), enabling a growing body of global researchers to benefit from faster....

Moving firmly into 2021, what are we up to?

Two months into 2021 and I am sure we speak for many when we say, it already feels like a lot has happened! When we introduced the concept of GetFTR (Get Full Text Research) at the STM conference in December 2019, none of us could have....

Online Seminar for Publisher and Integrators

Following on from our seminar for librarians at the end of 2020, we are pleased to announce that the next in the series – a seminar for Publishers and Integrators, will be taking place on 18th February at 15.00 GMT/10.00 EST to talk through how the....

Missed our library seminar? The recording is now live

Earlier this month the GetFTR team and advisory board held an informal chat for the librarian community to provide updates on GetFTR’s developments, its forthcoming plans for 2021 and to explore further how GetFTR serves library users. The recording....

Publisher the American Society of Civil Engineers and integrator Semantic Scholar are to join GetFTR

GetFTR expands service with two new partners supporting a consistent researcher experience and streamlined access to over 86,000,000 research articles. Publisher....

CHORUS now using GetFTR to support open research compliance for publicly funded research

CHORUS (chorusaccess.org), the non-profit membership organization, is now using Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) technology to speed up and enhance their open....

Join us for a librarian seminar – 10th December

Nearly a year on from our session at the annual STM Conference, we are inviting all librarians to join us for an informal seminar on 10th December 2020. We’d like to update you on GetFTR’s developments and talk openly about plans for 2021. This seminar....

Preserving data privacy and expanding access options

At the heart of GetFTR is the drive to support streamlined access to high quality research for global researchers, no matter their location. As the current global pandemic has illustrated, rapid, direct access to authentic research is vital. Throughout the pilot....

Missed us at Charleston?

A Unique Year, a Unique Solution: GetFTR Streamlines Access to Research: A Charleston session. Earlier this month we were delighted to be able to present a poster session at Charleston. if you missed us though, you can access the full interactive video below by clicking on our logo....

On the road to launch – A few updates from the GetFTR pilot

Nearly a year on from announcing the GetFTR initiative, we have been piloting the service over the past few months. Speaking with the wider research community, listening to integrators, publishers, librarians, and our....

Karger Publishers trials GetFTR

The Swiss-based scientific and medical publisher is the first organisation to join the founding five publishers of GetFTR, supporting streamlined access to global journal literature. Karger Publishers has today announced that it will trial Get Full Text....

Behind the scenes with Researcher: What does integration look like for GetFTR’s latest adopter?

Guest blog from Dr. Jonathan Cremers, Senior Product Manager, Researcher. Since the GetFTR pilot launched in April 2020 the team have been working with several new....

GetFTR pilot is now live

In December 2019, we announced the development of Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), a new, free to use solution that enables faster access for researchers to the published journal articles they need. With seamless off-campus access to scholarly content more important than ever, we are....

A good start to 2020 but there’s a lot to do

We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone that took part in the first GetFTR Advisory Group meeting of the year. Input from the group will be incredibly important as we develop GetFTR, ensuring the perspectives of the various stakeholder groups we have....

Updating the community

We wanted to thank everyone that has expressed interest in GetFTR. Over 100 providers of online research services and publishers have been in touch to ask for more detail, and we’ve seen lots of engagement on social media. We’ve even heard directly from several researchers who want to be kept....

New service from publishers to streamline access to research

Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) is a new, free to use solution that enables faster access for researchers to the published journal articles they need. When researchers are using online tools to search for research, GetFTR will....