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Baltimore, MD | June 27, 2024 - The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) today announced the publication of the Communication of
Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) Recommended
Practice (NISO RP-45-2024) <https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/crec>.
Funding for the CREC Working Group as well as for research at the
University of Illinois’ Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted
Science (RISRS) project <https://infoqualitylab.org/projects/risrs2020/>, which
aided Working Group deliberations and decisions, was generously provided by
the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation <http://sloan.org>.


Retracted publications are research outputs that have been found to be
flawed, unreliable, or otherwise invalidated from the scholarly record.
There are a number of reasons why publications may be retracted, but in all
cases, correcting the record requires that these decisions be clearly
communicated and broadly understood so that the research—whether retracted
due to error, misconduct, or fraud—is not propagated. The NISO Recommended
Practice establishes best practices for the creation, transfer, and display
of retraction-related metadata, ensuring that participants (publishers,
aggregators, full-text hosts, libraries, and researchers) can communicate
retraction information quickly and enabling readers who discover a
publication to readily identify its status.


“With the publication of the CREC Recommended Practice, NISO has taken an
important step toward limiting the impact and spread of retracted
publications,” stated Caitlin Bakker, Discovery Technologies Librarian at
the University of Regina and co-chair of the Working Group. “We thank the
Working Group members as well as all those who commented on the draft and
helped to ensure that the workflows it outlines address the needs of all
interested parties.”


“We’re excited to see the Working Group’s efforts come to fruition,” added
Jodi Schneider, Associate Professor, School of Information Sciences,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Principal Investigator for
the RISRS II: Research and Development towards the Communication of
Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern project. “And we hope
that wider adoption of the NISO guidelines will help to build trust in
science and in academic research more generally.”


NISO’s Executive Director, Todd Carpenter, stated, “With retractions on the
rise, the CREC Recommended Practice represents an important cross-industry
effort by libraries, publishers, and vendors to advance research integrity.
We are grateful to the Working Group and its co-chairs for leading this
project, as well as to the Sloan Foundation for its support.”


The NISO CREC Recommended Practice is freely available at
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/crec.



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