Retraction warnings moved earlier — to you, not just your reader
Folio has checked your cited sources against the retraction registry for a while — but that signal only ever surfaced on the public certificate verify page, after you'd already published. The first person to learn your paper cited a retracted source was whoever checked your credential, not you.
That signal now shows up where you can act on it:
- Publishing an Integrity Certificate — if any cited source is retracted or under an expression of concern, the publish screen shows you which ones before you confirm.
- Exporting your manuscript — DOCX, PDF, LaTeX-PDF, plain LaTeX, and the full submission package all show the same warning once before the export runs.
This is a warning, not a gate. Retraction data refreshes every few days and can lag in either direction, so the call stays yours — one click continues either action. Acknowledging it covers the rest of your session, and it only asks again if your manuscript picks up a newly flagged citation. A manuscript with no flagged citations sees nothing new. See How citations work in Folio for where retraction checking fits into the citation system.
Fixed
- Deleting a document forever could silently break a certificate someone else already relied on. If you'd published an Integrity Certificate from a document, then later deleted the draft — or just let it sit in trash past the 30-day auto-purge — the certificate's
/verifylink went dead with no warning, even if a grad school or journal already had it on file. "Delete forever" now checks first: if the document has a live certificate or review, you'll see the actual link that would break, and the confirm button becomes "Delete anyway." Revoking a certificate first still works as your intentional way to take one down before deleting. - Library badges were hard to read in dark mode. Source-type badges and the read/unread status dots on
/librarynow use dark-mode-specific colors instead of reusing the light-mode ones, which had poor contrast against the dark background. - Source Inspector's icon-only buttons had no accessible name. Screen readers now announce what each button does, in Arabic and Hebrew as well as English.