

GetFTR Turns Five: What We’ve Delivered – and What’s Next
In 2020 five major publishers came together with a shared goal: to simplify and streamline access to academic content. They’d heard so many stories of researchers being encumbered on their journey from discovery tool to full-text and wanted to help solve their problem. The result was GetFTR, a service designed to signal full-text availability and help researchers reach the version-of-record quickly and easily.
GetFTR has evolved significantly over the last 5 years, going beyond the original remit to solve other problems experienced by researchers when finding and reaching scholarly content. To mark our fifth anniversary, we’ve created a short presentation highlighting how GetFTR has evolved, what we’ve achieved, and where we are heading next.
The presentation covers:
- An explanation of how GetFTR helps bridge discovery and access
- An overview of key developments such as support for content syndication, retraction and errata indicators, license transparency, perpetual access support, reference tools integration, and preprint linking
- Information about our own browser extension which adds GetFTR links to any website, including AI tools, social media, news etc
- A look ahead at future plans including expansion into new regions, enhancing existing functionality, and new product developments including further support for AI workflows, and new tools for funders, librarians and others.
We are proud of the progress made so far and grateful for the collaboration and feedback from across the community.
And if you would like to read more, we interviewed our five founding publishers about their views on working with GetFTR since its inception, you can read it in Research Information.
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