CHORUS is governed by our members, who serve on our Board of Directors, Committees and Working Groups. A largely volunteer effort, CHORUS is managed by a full-time Executive Director.
Howard Ratner
Executive Director
Howard is the driving force behind CHOR Inc. and its first service, CHORUS. Over the past two decades, he played a key role in developing innovative technology solutions that have transformed scholarly communications. He co-founded and chaired the not-for-profit ORCID – Open Researcher and Contributor ID system, and was active in the establishment of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and the founding and technical development of CrossRef and CLOCKSS. He was President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) from 2014-2015 and served on its board from 2010-2012 and 2013-2016. He is an active member of the Metadata 2020 and SCHOLIX initiatives and the STM Future Labs. Howard received the NFAIS Miles Conrad Memorial Lecture Award in 2012. He is a frequent speaker on digital production and new technology themes
Before joining CHOR, Howard was Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice-President, for Nature Publishing Group where he was in charge of global web and mobile development and operations, content management, production and manufacturing, and information technology across all NPG products. Howard also held positions at Springer and John Wiley & Sons.
Tara Packer
Program Management
Tara Packer serves as CHORUS Program Manager. She joined CHORUS by way of Nature, where she led the Author and Reviewer Services and Manuscript Systems team. She has over 30 years experience in digital and print product delivery, as well as system development and technology management. She has held positions at The Scientific World and Academic Press, where she served as Managing Editor for multiple journals, managing the peer-review processes, content management systems, and website design and implementations.
Mark Robertson
Asia-Pacific Development
Mark has joined the CHORUS team to grow our activity in Asia Pacific (APAC) with funders, publishers and institutions. For 36 years Mark lead Wiley’s and Blackwell Publishing’s research journal program in APAC as Publishing Director with overall country responsibility for Australia and Japan as Executive Director. He now brings this experience and networks in the region to CHORUS. Mark was key to our recent expansion beyond the US helping instigate the new CHORUS partnerships in Japan and the pilot in Australia while with Wiley.
His other contributions to the publishing industry have included Board appointments with the Copyright Agency Limited, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the International Association of STM Publishers (STM), forming and chairing the Scholarly and Journal Committee for the APA and the Japan chapter for STM.
Nick Campbell
Springer Nature Term: 2020-2023
David Crotty
Oxford University Press Term: 2019-2022
Scott Delman
ACM (Treasurer) Term: 2019-2022
Ann Gabriel
Elsevier Term: 2020-2023
Jonathan Glover
Wiley Term: 2018-2021
Robert Harington
American Mathematical Society (Secretary) Term: 2020-2023
Susan King
Rockefeller University Press Term: 2018-2021
Vincent Lizzi
Taylor & Francis Term: 2020-2023
Dawn Melley
IEEE Term: 2020-2021
John Ochs
American Chemical Society Term: 2018-2021
Howard Ratner
CHORUS (ex officio)
Judy Russell
University of Florida, Gainesville Term: 2019-2022
Matthew Salter
American Physical Society Term: 2019-2022
Will Schweitzer
Silverchair Term: 2020-2023
Marc Segers
Geoscience World Term: 2020-2023
Alexandra Vance
AIP Publishing (Chair) Term: 2020-2023
David Crotty (CHAIR)
Oxford University Press
Scott Delman
Association for Computing Machinery
Susan King
Rockefeller University Press
Tara Packer
CHORUS
Rick Anderson
University Librarian, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University
Curtis Brundy
Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communication and Collections, Iowa State University Library
Paul Gallagher
Associate Dean for Resources and Digital Strategies, Western Michigan University
Susan Kendall
Health Sciences Coordinator and Copyright Librarian, Michigan State University Libraries
Michael Levine-Clark
Dean and Director, University of Denver Libraries
Liz Lorbeer
Chair, Department of the Medical Library, Library Director & Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
Alexa Pearce
Associate University Librarian for Research, University of Michigan Library
Judith C. Russell (Chair)
Dean of University Libraries, George A. Smathers Libararies, University of Florida
Megan von Isenburg
Associate Dean for Library Services & Archives, Duke Medical Center Library & Archives
Scott Warren
Associate Dean for Research & Scholarship, Syracuse University Libraries
Sara Girard
AIP Publishing (Chair of Communications Working Group)
Laura FitzGerald
GeoScienceWorld
Sara Rotjan
AIP Publishing
Susan Spilka
Spilka Strategic Communications, LLC
Howard Ratner
CHORUS
David Weinreich
Weinreich Strategic Group
Mark Doyle
APS (Co-Chair of Technical Working Group)
Evan Owens
Advisor (Co-Chair of Technical Working Group)
Scott Dineen
The Optical Society
Mark Donoghue
IEEE
Stephen Flockton
IOP Publishing
Kirsten Fuoti
Silverchair
Wayne Graves
ACM
Robert Koepke
AAAS
Jen McAndrews
AIP Publishing
Colin McAteer
ASME
Thomas McCabe
American College of Physicians
Graham McCann
IOP Publishing
Paul Mostert
Elsevier
Cara Mulcahy
Atypon
Dan O’Brien
American Chemical Society
Robert O’Donnell
Rockefeller University Press
Rich O’Keefe
AIP Publishing
Tara Packer
CHORUS
Jeanette Panning
AGU
James Phillpotts
Oxford University Press
Howard Ratner
CHORUS
Kat Rodenhizer
PNAS
Henning Schoenenberger
Springer Nature
Marc Segers
Geoscience World
John Shaw
Sage Publications
Kathleen Sheedy
APA
John Walker
Wiley
Todd Ware
American College of Physicians
Gregg Warren
Taylor & Francis
Steve Watson
Elsevier
Steve Wilkes
Royal Society of Chemistry
Donna Witzleben
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Kirsty Meddings
CrossRef (Advisor)
Andrea Medina-Smith
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY (ADVISOR)
Ricardo Romero
National Agricultural Library, US Department of Agriculture (Advisor)
Roberta Schoen
Defense Technical Information Center, US Department of Defense (Advisor)
Lance Vowell
Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Department of Energy (Advisor)
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