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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 […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has signed a participation agreement with CHORUS to expand public access to the results of its funded research. This agreement fortifies the relationship between CHORUS, its members, and NASA, in support of the NASA Plan for Increasing Access to the Results of Scientific Research. “I am thrilled that […]

CHORUS Forum: Making FAIR’s Interoperability and Reusability Data Goals Possible 17 June 2022 @ 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT – Free online meeting #CHORUS Forum Since their publication in 2016, the FAIR Data Guiding Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) have become clear and enabling goals to work towards in any work or policies around […]

Datasets are an important piece of the scholarly ecosystem. Linking datasets to published research helps increase their visibility and encourages further exploration and use. CHORUS members and participants can now download dataset reports directly from their dashboards. The dataset reports provide a view into the metadata associated with the dataset from DataCite (datacite.org) and  makes explicit […]

Four directors were elected to the CHORUS/CHOR, Inc. Board of Directors at the Annual Members Meeting, 25 April 2022. New to the board are: Scott Delman (Association of Computing Machinery). Returning to the CHORUS board are: Mark Doyle (American Physical Society), Jenny Peng (Oxford University Press), Judith C. Russell (University of Florida).  All will serve a […]

JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), one of Japan’s prominent funders of research in science and the agency hosting J-STAGE journal and J-STAGE Data platforms, announces the launch of its preprint server Jxiv on March 24. As preprints globally become more acceptable as one of the forms of publication of research, Jxiv has been launched […]

On 23 February 2022, during the R2R Conference Michael Levine-Clark (Dean of Libraries, University of Denver), Joaquín Giménez Héau (Research Data Coordinator at UNAM, Mexico), and Judy Russell (Dean of University Libraries, University of Florida) led a discussion on “Research Data Discoverability: The role of libraries in making research data discoverable and accessible. Presentation Link: […]

Open research is concerned with making scientific research more transparent, more collaborative and more efficient, the same goals that led to the creation of CHORUS nine years ago.  In this spirit, CHORUS developed a set of Open Research Principles that align with CHORUS values, and is asking members and other organizations to signal their support.  […]