News from CHORUS

ONLY A FEW SPACES LEFT… Don’t delay… Anyone interested in finding out more about how CHORUS works and how to participate should sign up for our in-person Technical Implementation Workshop on 18 December 2014 at the AAP’s NYC offices at 71 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor. Can’t make it? We’re holding another Technical Implementation Workshop on […]

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A Conversation with CHORUS’ Howard Ratner and SHARE’s Judy Ruttenberg

If you missed SHARE, CHORUS, & Open Access: Your Questions Answered — the October 21st webinar sponsored by SAGE during OA Week — you can now link to it, along with a Q&A transcript that includes added material not covered during the one-hour public event: https://connection.sagepub.com/blog/sage-connection/2014/11/05/share-chorus-and-open-access-your-questions-answered/ 

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CHORUS is now a 501(c)(3)!

Mail from the IRS doesn’t always bear good news, but we welcomed the letter we received last week: CHORUS is officially a charitable organization, having been granted 501(c)(3) status by the US Internal Revenue Service. The designation, which is retroactive to October 1, 2013, when CHOR incorporated, means that we have met the rigorous standards […]

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New Members and Other News

A WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS CHORUS is pleased to be working with the following new members to advance public access: American Chemical Society, AIP Publishing, American Physical Society, Association of Computing Machinery, Elsevier, Hindawi , Silverchair, and Wiley. ACM, AIP, APS, ACS, Elsevier, Silverchair, and Wiley representatives serve on the CHORUS Board of Directors and […]

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CHORUS Helps Drive Public Access

CHORUS Helps Drive Public Access, Alice Meadows and Howard Ratner, NISO: Information Standards Quarterly, Summer 2014, 26(2): 32-33, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3789/isqv26no2.2014.06

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CHORUS Moves Forward!

Important CHORUS milestones were achieved since Friday: The DOE’s announcement that it will be collaborating with CHORUS as part of its effort to public access to peer-reviewed articles reporting on DOE-funded research. CHORUS’ move from our pilot phase into production. These are important steps, but they are just a beginning. The CHORUS team is working […]

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CHORUS Goes Live Into Production!

Today, July 31, 2014, CHORUS achieves another milestone and enters into production as planned. What does this mean? It means that CHORUS is now open and ready for business. Adding to our Signatory options, CHORUS now offers several participation options, at different levels of engagement: Publisher and Affiliate Memberships; Funder Partnerships; and Academic Supporters. Publisher […]

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