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Save the Date – AGU/CHORUS Forum: How Open is Open Data & Software? April 19, 2023 @ 11 AM – 1 PM EDT  The word “open” is being used commonly in scholarly communications with little context as to what is meant or intended. Researchers have been working openly to their advantage throughout their careers. What […]

Nominations to the CHORUS Board are now open. The CHORUS Board of Directors was elected by our membership during our last Annual Members Meeting. We are now seeking your nominations for seats on the CHORUS Board that will be voted upon at the next CHORUS Annual Members Meeting scheduled for 28 April 2023. Appointments to the Board of Directors […]

CHORUS will create a Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service to identify related funders, datasets, reuse licenses, ORCID identifiers, and links to published articles on publisher sites and government public access repositories. The preprint dashboard will aid in discoverability of preprints associated with funded research – providing insight into where research is first being shared. The […]

With over a hundred participants, the September 29th CHORUS Forum resulted in a robust discussion around solutions for improving scholarly publishing metadata. A big thank you to our sponsors for supporting this forum: Association for Computing Machinery, Clarivate, American Chemical Society, AIP Publishing, GeoScienceWorld, and STM. Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHORUS, moderated the first session […]

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.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (“CSIRO”), an Australian Government Agency, and CHOR, Inc. (CHORUS) have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a workflow to measure and monitor the use of CSIRO resources and facilities. CHORUS and CSIRO will work together on a three-year Pilot Project that brings together stakeholders from across the […]

CHORUS Forum: Improving Scholarly Publishing Metadata 29 September 2022 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT – Free online meeting #CHORUS Forum When metadata is omitted or incorrectly entered during a scholarly publishing workflow it can have serious consequences for the findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability of that item. Transmitting incorrect metadata to others through […]

CHORUS and AGU held a lively forum on Friday, 17 June 2022 to discuss how to make the interoperability and reusability data goals of FAIR a reality. This forum was sponsored by ACS Publications, AIP Publishing, Royal Society of Chemistry, SPIE, and Silverchair. Shelley Stall, Senior Director for Data Leadership at AGU, moderated the event. […]

Free online meeting 13 July 2022 @ 8:00 – 9:00 PM US EDT 14 July 2022 @ 10:00 – 11: 00 AM Australian EST #chorusaccess CHORUS presented at the ALIA Virtual Showcase. Registration was open to everyone. Speakers described how CHORUS is a global not-for-profit organization which helps funders, institutions, publishers, and the public see, […]

NASA researchers who publish in a CHORUS member’s journal can now more easily satisfy the Agency’s requirements for public access. In a recent communication with their researcher community, NASA noted that they will leverage CHORUS data and infrastructure to increase access to NASA-funded research. CHORUS is currently tracking more than 33,000 articles reporting on NASA-funded […]