Retractions and Corrections at Scholars Portal Journals

Abstract

Scholars Portal Journals, a service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), is an XML based repository that hosts e-journal content for universities in Ontario. As part of the OCUL mission to provide accurate and up-to-date access to scholarly research, Scholars Portal has recently taken on a project to improve how article corrections and retractions are handled in our workflow. This paper introduces the new process of utilizing the JATS metadata element to link between articles and their corrections and retractions so that users are immediately aware that there have been changes to the article they are viewing. This paper will also discuss challenges in this process including the inability to handle articles that have not been registered with a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and difficulties with inconsistent use of attribute values.