Improving Access to Research Special Announcement Ralph Youngen, ACS Sr. Director, Technology Strategy & Partnerships Gaby Appleton, Elsevier Managing Director, Researcher Products Laird Barrett, Springer Nature Digital Product Manager Paul Tuten, Taylor & Francis Chief Product and Technology Officer Todd Toler, Wiley VP, Digital Product Management There is a problem with the research ecosystem “High on my list of favourite things: going through about eight different login stages on a website only to find that my institution doesn't have access to the text anyway.” Historian. “Just how long does it take to navigate the frankly awful login systems of publishers... I look around and think "if everyone in here spent an extra 15 mins per day…” Neuroscientist. “Within the scholarly ecosystem, it is time to reimagine the future…we’d like to see this change come from within…” “Search and discovery have reached a level of maturity and status quo, yet our shared systems for authentication are out of step…” Sponsors: Advisors: What is GetFTR?  A new service that enables researchers to get faster access to published research  Compatible with all of today’s research discovery tools, scientific collaboration networks, library management systems, etc.  Provides on-the-fly verification of a user’s entitlement rights to a research article based upon the user’s institutional affiliation  Works directly with publisher platforms to determine entitlement status  Is privacy preserving and fully GDPR compliant How does GetFTR work? What does GetFTR address? Streamline Access Collaboration & Workflow Level Playing Field Drive Standards Minimize paywalls and “access denied” experience for researchers to full text journal articles Enable discovery services and scholarly collaboration networks to streamline access to the best available version of the content that researchers are entitled to Enable legitimate competition between publishers, between social / collaboration tool providers, while sharing data fairly and legally Create a service for all to participate in, with transparent governance Accelerate global adoption of industry standards Use common, open standards where possible How can integration partners use GetFTR? Integration partners can leverage the SeamlessAccess.org infrastructure to discover a user’s institutional affiliation. Works across Open Access and Subscribed Articles DOIs from search results along with the user’s affiliation are sent to GetFTR. Open Access articles can be appropriately badged. Institutionally subscribed articles carry the GetFTR “trustmark”. Integrators can rewrite links to use WAYFless URLs provided by GetFTR, customized for the user’s affiliation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLoS_transparent.svg Flexibility for Partners Integrators can choose to add a GetFTR button instead of rewriting existing links. Publishers may choose to provide unentitled users with an alternative version. Seeking widespread participation The best possible outcome for researchers is widespread adoption of GetFTR by: • publishers who are willing to make their entitlements available to participating integration partners; and • integration partners (e.g. research discovery tools, scientific collaboration platforms, library management systems, etc.) who are willing to adopt GetFTR to provide seamless pathways to published research. Resources available: Reference Site A lightweight discovery service to demonstrate GetFTR Provides guidance to those wishing to integrate with GetFTR Developer Portal Timeline: 2020 First quarter 2020: Pilot launch • Publishers anticipated: ACS, Elsevier, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, Wiley • Integration Partners anticipated: Dimensions, Mendeley, ReadCube Papers • Other publishers or integration partners welcomed • Goals of the pilot: • Experimentation in live environments • Further learnings from real users • Refinement of the service as appropriate Mid-year 2020 and onward: Full launch and broad scale-out to additional publishers and integration partners www.GetFullTextResearch.com Thank you!