The role of the information community in ensuring that information is authoritative: Strategies from NISO Plus 2022

Samantha Blickhan, Stephanie Dawson, Bahar Mehmani, Nici Pfeiffer, Jodi Schneider

Abstract: This article reports on a NISO Plus 2022 session that addressed what can be done to safeguard the integrity of the scholarly content being created, disseminated, and used. How much responsibility does the information community have in ensuring that the content we provide is authoritative? Preprints are a great way to make early research results available, but it is not always clear that those results are not yet thoroughly vetted. Peer review – a key element of scholarly publication – can help, but is far from foolproof. Retractions are another important tool, but most retracted research is still all too readily available. What can and should we be doing to safeguard the integrity of the content being created, disseminated, and used?