GetFTR increases visibility of open access 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. 

The service will signal the availability of more than 20 million open access and free articles, including those from publishers who do not participate directly in GetFTR. 

The article DOIs are sourced directly from GetFTR participating publishers, or from Crossref, and therefore provide a reliable and up to date source of data. 

All of the discovery services that have integrated directly with GetFTR will benefit from this development and will be able to send their researchers directly to the free or open article (including those in hybrid journals where the library does not subscribe to the journal), negating the need to navigate any additional layers of authentication or access control. We know that sometimes library management systems do not always spot free or OA content and so libraries can be confident their researchers are able to reach valuable open content which can sometimes be hard to discover. 

Anyone who has downloaded the GetFTR Browser Extension will also benefit from this service and will be signposted to free or open articles from Google Scholar, PubMed, Web of Science and more.