News

Six directors were elected to the CHORUS/CHOR, Inc. Board of Directors at the Annual Members Meeting in Washington, DC on February 6, 2019. New to the board are two members-at-large from academic institutions: Rick Anderson (University of Utah) and Judith Russell (University of Florida, Gainesville). Returning to the CHORUS board are David Crotty (Oxford University […]

How Rockefeller University Press helped define a solution for monitoring open access to funded research that works for publishers of all sizes.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has signed an agreement with CHORUS to expand public access to the results of its funded research.

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

Warm thanks to those who attended our reception at STM Frankfurt. And for those of you who couldn’t be there, here’s what you missed.

The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has signed a participation agreement with CHORUS to expand public access to the results of its funded research. Following a successful pilot program, CHORUS will monitor compliance with open access requirements to help maintain permanent, authoritative access to articles based on NIST published […]

CHORUS has announced an agreement with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to expand public access to the results of its funded research. USAID’s public access plan was released in in November 2016 and is designed to ensure effective access to and reliable preservation of both peer-reviewed scholarly publications and digital data produced through […]

In case you missed it…
The panel that CHORUS hosted at the last Charleston Conference  – A Simpler Path to Public Access Compliance – was featured as this month’s Video Spotlight in Against the Grain.  

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.

RSC reports that they are fully integrated with CHORUS.