If you’ve searched recently for retracted articles in PubMed — the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s database of scientific abstracts — you may have noticed something new.

In fact, you may have had trouble ignoring it, which is sort of the point. “It” is a large salmon banner that looks something like this:

We were wondering if the aims were similar to those of the retraction database we’re beginning to build – i.e., to make retractions more transparent — so we asked the National Library of Medicine’s Hilda Bastian to explain the changes….

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