Howard Ratner, CHORUS Chair, was interviewed by Cara Rivera, KGL, VP, Consulting and Analysis, on his views about OSTP and Public Access. Recording available now! Other recordings from the KGL PubFactory Industry Day held on 6 October 2022 have also been made available.
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/
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2014 — Howard Ratner, well known in the scholarly publishing community for his leadership work in technical services and standards, has been appointed as Executive Director of the new CHOR, Inc. not-for-profit organization. As Director of Development, Ratner successfully led the CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) proof […]
(From SSP Scholarly Kitchen) In this episode, Howard Ratner, Director of Development at CHORUS, provides a status report on the project, a partnership between publishers and federal agencies to facilitate public access to federally funded research; talks about opportunities for synergies between CHORUS and other public-access vehicles; discusses next steps on the project; and also […]
Howard Ratner, who is well-known in scholarly publishing for his leadership work in technical services and standards, has joined CHORUS as Director of Development in its start-up phase to lead the proof of concept — a conceptual design framework — and pilot stages for all stakeholders. Most recently CTO and Executive Vice President, Nature Publishing Group, he […]
Don’t miss Howard Ratner at these sessions on November 7th at Charleston: METADATA 2020: a holistic approach to metadata improvements for scholarly communications; COLLECTIVE ACTION: community approaches in scholar communications; STOPWATCH SESSION: monitoring open access with CHORUS
Learn more about the role standards, metadata and persitent identifiers play in making the infrastructure of scholarly communication work. Howard Ratner will be presenting at CSE and SSP conferences in May.
During the Metadata Gone Wrong – What to Fix and Why It Matters Workshop held on 24 April 2025, speakers spoke about issues with metadata. The biggest takeaway was the need to identify pathways and introduce solutions to fix errors or omissions upstream and build infrastructure to minimize the introduction of metadata errors going forward. […]
CHORUS Workshop 1: Metadata Gone Wrong – What to Fix and Why It Matters 24 April 2025 – Free online meeting 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT #CHORUSForum Presentations and video available below. Too much is wrong with scholarly metadata! Metadata serves as the cornerstone of discoverability, interoperability, and impact for Open Research. This […]
CHORUS, the pioneering not-for-profit driving open research forward, marks a significant decade of breaking down barriers in scholarly communication. What started as a vision in 2014 has developed into a global partnership connecting researchers, libraries, funders and publishers in an unprecedented collaboration. Over 10 transformative years, CHORUS has revolutionized how research is shared, assessed, and […]
