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CHORUS shares the US OSTP’s commitment to advancing public access to federally funded research, related data sets and code. In our April 8, 2020, response to their Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From Federally Funded Research, we offer to share the publication and compliance data that CHORUS […]

Guest Post by Mark Robertson Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and CHORUS jointly organised a workshop at JST’s Headquarters in Tokyo in February 2020. Thirty-one invited delegates attended from institutions in Japan that use or are trialling the CHORUS dashboard and data services. The program was as follows; Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication […]

The CHORUS/UFL Institution Pilot ran from July 2016 – May 2017. Participants included: University of Florida, University of Denver, American Chemical Society, Association for Computing Machinery, American Physical Society, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Wiley. Collaboration among the participants resulted in the November 2018 launch of the CHORUS Institution dashboard. You can […]

Chiba University in Japan has been a CHORUS institutional subscriber since 2017. This article tells the story of their partnership with CHORUS and how they have developed a workflow to use the CHORUS data to link to open access articles published by their researchers in their institutional repository CURATOR. The article was published in the […]

The latest version of the CHORUS Publisher Implementation Guide is now posted in our Resources section. Considerable thanks to Evan Owens and the Technical Working Group for this achievement. Please send any feedback to us via support@chorusaccess.org  

Dr. Yasushi Ogasaka, Director of the Department for Information Infrastructure at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), gave the keynote presentation at the inaugural Asia-Pacific meeting of the International Association of STM Publishers (STM) in Hong Kong in June 2019. This paper, based Dr. Ogasaka’s address, shares the evolution of open science in Japan […]

The CHORUS Dashboard Service now includes all DOI records that have Funder IDs, matching all agencies for all publishers in Crossref. This major enhancement provides a more comprehensive and discoverable set of article records identified as reporting on funded research to funders, institutions and publishers. Each dashboard is enhanced with a filter check box so […]

Nominations to the CHORUS Board are now open! The CHORUS Board of Directors was elected by our membership last February during our 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 May 2020. Appointments to the Board of Directors […]

Since August 2016, Chiba University has been working closely with CHORUS, guided by the key elements of kaizen – quality, effort, teamwork, willingness to change, and communication – to refine the CHORUS Institution Dashboard service so that it better meets their needs for monitoring faculty research output and increase the rate of Open Access compliance. […]