CHORUS Members Elect Board of Directors
CHORUS members gathered in person or by proxy to vote to elect the members of the Board of Directors after the expiration of the Interim Board that has served CHORUS during its first two years. New to the Board are John Sack, HighWire, and Matthew Salter, American Physical Society.
CHORUS Signs Agreement With US Department of Defense to Advance Public Access to Research
DoD’s Defense Technical Information Center will employ CHORUS’ services to build on open standards, distributed networks, and established infrastructure to advance access to scholarly articles reporting on DoD-funded research, as well as enable agency indexing and long-term preservation of those articles.
Library Journal on CHORUS
An interesting feature posted today on LJ’s Academic Newswire, based on Associate Editor Lisa Peet’s interviews Howard Ratner (CHORUS), Jim Kurose (NSF), and Katherine Sharpless (NIST), and Keith Kirk (USGS).
HighWire Press joins CHORUS
HighWire notes that their membership in CHORUS reflects their commitment to supporting the publishing community through innovative technology solutions in this press release issued on January 6, 2015.
December Update
A strong end to 2015 as CHORUS signs on new funders, partners, and members
NIST and CHORUS Launch Pilot Project
NIST and CHORUS launch a pilot project to support NIST’s public-access plan.
CHORUS Signs Agreement With NSF to Advance Public Access to Research
CHORUS announced an agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF), as part of the agency’s continued commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research.
CHORUS Signs Agreement With USGS to Collaborate for Advancing Public Access to Research
CHORUS announced an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), a science agency for the US Department of the Interior, to work together to implement the plan to increase public access to publications resulting from research funded by USGS.
Elsevier manuscripts of DOE-funded research now available open access
Elsevier will make almost 4,000 of these manuscripts available on ScienceDirect each year as part of CHORUS. Read more about it in a story on Elsevier Connect.
October Progress Report
A summary of recent achievements and activities, including live DOE funded content, a new CrossRef FundRef ID search tool, and an open API to access Agency Dashboard metadata.
