People and Partners

GetFTR was launched in 2020 and is sponsored by the American Chemical Society, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley. It has grown to support a wide variety of organizations involved in scholarly communication, including publishers, platforms and discovery tools.

Publishers: provide discovery tools with realtime entitlement checks and smart links to full-text

Open Access content accessible via GetFTR for all publishers

Open access publishers who do not have a direct relationship with us will also benefit from GetFTR as we have developed a service which will signal the availability, and flag retractions and updates, 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.

Discovery resources and tools (Integrators use GetFTR indicators to signpost when content is available to the researcher)

DISCOVERY TOOLS

GetFTR Browser Extension: once installed, will add GetFTR buttons to any website using DOIs and selected Preprint websites, including:

  • Search engines
  • Academic search engines
  • Social media
  • News
  • Reference sites
  • Library discovery resources
  • Research groups
  • Preprints.org
  • Osf.io
  • Arxiv
  • ChemRxiv
  • BioRxiv
  • SSRN

GetFTR Advisory Board

The GetFTR Advisory Board meets regularly and has been a key part of GetFTR’s development, from announcement to pilot launch and beyond. Every member plays an incredibly valuable role, providing insights and feedback from across the research community to shape the growth of GetFTR.

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Kendall-Bartsch
CEO, Third Iron

Lisa Hinchliffe

Professor & Coordinator for Research Professional Development, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

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Rob McGrath
CEO, Readcube Papers

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Jiri Pavlik
System Engineer, CzechELib

Olly Rickard
Senior Product Manager, Atypon

Joshua Routh
Product Director, HighWire Press

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Casey Schwartz
Director, IEEE Xplore

Hannah Heckner Swain
VP, Strategic Partnerships, Silverchair

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John Seguin
President, Third Iron

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Dr Daisy Selematsela
Director of Wits Libraries, Wits University

Sandeep Pathak
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)

Judith Gulpers
Team leader Digital Resources
Erasmus University

GetFTR Steering Committee

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Mark Heaver
Senior Product Manager,
Taylor & Francis

Ciaran O’Neill
Group Product Manager, SpringerNature

Chris Reid
Senior Director, Wiley

Chris Wolford
Assistant Director, Publishing Strategy, ACS

Ian Campsall
Senior Product Manager, Elsevier

GetFTR Staff and Consultants

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Hylke Koers
Program Director, GetFTR

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Dianne Benham
Product Director, GetFTR

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Heather Staines
Business Development, GetFTR

Tracy Gardner
Marketing, GetFTR

GetFTR Leadership Team

  • Interim Chair
    John Blanchard, Vice President, Global Publishing Operations at The American Chemical Society
  • CFO
    Stephen Dell, VP of Financial Planning & Performance, Taylor & Francis

GetFTR Board Members

  • Ed Hallet, Head of Product, Springer Nature
  • Rose L’Huillier, Snr Vice President, Research Products, Elsevier
  • Todd Toler, VP, Product Strategy and Partnerships, Wiley
  • Heather St Pierre, Vice President, Product Management, Taylor & Francis
  • John Blanchard, Vice President, Global Publishing Operations at The American Chemical Society

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Participating Partners