Research funders working with CHORUS as part of their public-access plans, pilot projects, or linking arrangements.
| Agencies | Make identified articles publicly accessible | Post reuse license urls | Allow full text harvesting for indexing |
Allow full text harvesting for dark archiving |
Preserve identified articles and allow agency to brighten articles at in CLOCKSS/Portico |
CHORUS Agreement Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US DOE | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | April 15, 2015 |
| US DOD** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | December 17, 2015 |
| NSF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | October 1, 2017 |
| USGS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | October 23, 2015 |
| Smithsonian Institution* | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | v | ✓ | June 24, 2015 |
| ODNI – IARPA | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | July 24, 2017 |
| Japan Science and Technology Agency | ✓ | ✓ | n/a | n/a | ✓ | September 1, 2017 |
| USDA (MOU) | December 27, 2016 |
Check marks represent the publisher obligations as set forth in the agreements. The agreement date is the month in which an agency signed an agreement with CHORUS. It is not to be confused with any dates within Agency Plans.
*Smithsonian Institution has option to create own dark archive, subject to Section 6 trigger events and distribution under Publisher Member’s Re-Use License
**If Publisher Member does not make a VOR publicly accessible on its website, but does make an AM publicly accessible on its website, DOD will link in a prominent manner to the AM on the Publisher Member website for those Publisher Members that prompt authors to submit AMs to DOD.
| Agencies | Status | CHORUS Agreement Date |
|---|---|---|
| National Institute of Standards and Technology | Pilot Partner | July 9, 2015 |
| Australian Research Council | Pilot Partner | January 2017 |
Last updated: 28 March 2018
