Patrick Hargitt
Senior Director of Product Management
Atypon/Wiley
Scholarly publishers are committed to maintaining the integrity of the published Version of Record. With the rise of alternative copies available through institutional repositories and other platforms, it’s crucial that repositories are promptly notified when important updates—such as retractions or corrections—are made to the official record. To address this, the International Association of STM Publishers (STM) is leading an initiative titled the Content-update Signaling and Alerting Protocol (CUSAP). This project aims to keep repositories and the wider research community informed of any critical changes to published literature. The CUSAP project has been consulting with the community—including 26 interviews and a broadly available survey—to gather requirements. No technical decisions have yet been made. It is planned to release a demonstrator system in the coming months.
https://stm-assoc.org/what-we-do/strategic-areas/standards-technology/cusap/