Registration Open for the CHORUS Implementation Workshop #1 – April 28

Registration is now open for the first CHORUS Implementation Workshop to be held at the headquarters of the American Chemical Society,  1155 Sixteenth Street, NW Washington, DC 20036, from 1.00 – 4.00pm on Monday, April 28. The program includes an overview of CHORUS, a session on FundRef, license metadata, and other CrossRef metadata best practices, an agency […]

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CHORUS Plenary Session Video Posted

The video from the CHORUS Plenary Session held on February 6, 2014 at the PSP Annual Meeting in Washington DC has been posted to our new video section. The excellent session was moderated by Alicia Wise (Elsevier) and speakers included Howard Ratner (CHORUS), Carol Anne Meyer (CrossRef), Mark Martin (US Department of Energy) and Susan […]

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CHORUS Presents at Annual PSP Conference – February 6, 2014

There was a great plenary panel discussion “CHORUS: A Collaborative Approach to Public Access” at the annual PSP Conference “Managing Innovation: Meeting the Challenges of Change” in Washington DC on February 6. The panel included: Susan King, Senior Vice President, Journals Publishing Group, American Chemical Society; Mark Martin, Assistant Director Program Integration, Office of Scientific […]

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CHORUS Seeking Lead Developer

CHORUS has a position open for a Lead Developer to join our start-up team. The Lead Developer will be responsible for the design, systems analysis, implementation, and maintenance of components of our rapidly growing, mission-critical Web application serving the scholarly communication, academic and funding agency markets. They will be a full stack developer working on the […]

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CHORUS Pilot Services

CHORUS launched Phase 1 of its pilot services back on September 30, 2013 and is actively adding new publishers for Phase 2. Find out more! These services have been featured during numerous webinars and conferences. We would love to hear what you think about these services. Contact us here.   | Contact us | CHORUS is a service […]

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What is CHORUS?

The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) is a not-for-profit public-private partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications that report on federally funded research. Conceived by publishers, CHORUS: Provides a solution for agencies to comply with the OSTP memo on public access to peer-reviewed scientific publications reporting on federally-funded research […]

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Howard Ratner Speaks on CHORUS and ORCID (SSP Scholarly Kitchen Podcast)

(From SSP Scholarly Kitchen) In this episode, Howard Ratner, Director of Development at CHORUS, provides a status report on the project, a partnership between publishers and federal agencies to facilitate public access to federally funded research; talks about opportunities for synergies between CHORUS and other public-access vehicles; discusses next steps on the project; and also […]

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CHORUS Enters Pilot Phase – to be unveiled at STM Annual Conference and Frankfurt Bookfair

The technical development enabling the pilot phase of the CHORUS service completed on September 30 and will be presented to global audiences at the STM Annual Conference and the Frankfurt Book Fair, both to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, October 7-9. These advances mark the next stage of development of the service and achieve milestones […]

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CHORUS Proof of Concept Unveiled

Read the complete CHORUS Proof of Concept as presented to signatories, agencies and other stakeholders beginning August 30. This conceptual design report, presented by CHORUS Director of Development Howard Ratner, was the first milestone met in the rollout plan. Any questions, email info@publishers.org CHORUS POC FINAL 30 August 2013 Want to know How CHORUS Works? […]

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