GetFTR Extends Retraction and Errata Service to All Partners, Enhancing Research Integrity and User Experience

GetFTR has extended its Retraction and Errata service to all integrator partner organizations. This rollout enables partners, such as discovery resources, Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs) and publishers that have integrated GetFTR on their reference lists, to display a notification button at the point of discovery, indicating if an article has been updated or retracted. 

This crucial information, sourced from Crossref and Retraction Watch, will be available for all articles where retraction or errata information is found. This now includes content from publishers who do not participate in GetFTR, and it will be displayed even if the researcher does not have access to the full content.

Dianne Benham, Product Director for GetFTR, urged partner organizations to incorporate this feature, highlighting its potential to significantly enhance their own products and services. “Helping researchers not only determine their entitlement to scholarly content, but also to see if it has been corrected or retracted will vastly improve the customer experience, elevate the value of our partners’ offerings, and contribute to Research Integrity”, Benham stated.

The retraction and errata feature is already available to researchers using the GetFTR Browser extension. This roll out to all partner organisations further demonstrates GetFTR’s commitment to enhancing the researcher experience by providing streamlined access pathways to trusted content”  .

To find out more about GetFTR,  read about the latest product updates, new partners and the impact GetFTR is having on improving the user experience across publishing – see our news page.

Contact dianne@getfulltextresearch.com for more information about enabling this feature.

References

See our Specification and Usability Guidelines on how to incorporate the GetFTR Document Status page into your user experience.

Notes: How the Retraction and Errata feature works

Where changes have been made to a published article the researcher will see a retraction or update button. Hovering over the button the researcher will see reasons for the retraction or update, such as issues about the data or error in the image. 

Clicking on the Update button will take the researcher to the GetFTR Document Status page which displays further information about the document in a timeline format, such as when it was published, updated or retracted.

The following images show the Retraction button displayed in Google Scholar results and the document information the user sees when they click the button.