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ROR (Research Organization Registry) is one of the most important PIDs to identify organizations. ROR clarifies how it includes parent-child relationships! Organizations such as funders and universities can now use RORs to identify directorates, child agencies (e.g., NIST and NOAA are agencies within the US Department of Commerce), and institutes. ROR is publicizing its ROR’s […]

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 […]

The Department of Energy’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (DOE OSTI) announced (https://www.osti.gov/DOE-OSTI-Launches-PIDs) a new website, PIDs@OSTI.GOV, that details their services and support for assigning and using persistent identifiers (PIDs) for research components such as data, software, text documents, awards, people, and organizations. According to Carly Robinson (OSTI Assistant Director for Information Products and […]

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 […]

It’s the 10th anniversary of the ORCID registry which launched in 2012! An excellent example of what collaboration across the scholarly communications ecosystem can achieve, the ORCID registry is now the most well-known tool to disambiguate researchers in the PID universe. To celebrate their 10th anniversary, ORCID has produced an entertaining and insightful piece about […]

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 […]