A Conversation with CHORUS’ Howard Ratner and SHARE’s Judy Ruttenberg
If you missed SHARE, CHORUS, & Open Access: Your Questions Answered — the October 21st webinar sponsored by SAGE during OA Week — you can now link to it, along with a Q&A transcript that includes added material not covered during the one-hour public event: https://connection.sagepub.com/blog/sage-connection/2014/11/05/share-chorus-and-open-access-your-questions-answered/
CHORUS is now a 501(c)(3)!
Mail from the IRS doesn’t always bear good news, but we welcomed the letter we received last week: CHORUS is officially a charitable organization, having been granted 501(c)(3) status by the US Internal Revenue Service. The designation, which is retroactive to October 1, 2013, when CHOR incorporated, means that we have met the rigorous standards […]
New Members and Other News
A WARM WELCOME TO OUR NEW MEMBERS CHORUS is pleased to be working with the following new members to advance public access: American Chemical Society, AIP Publishing, American Physical Society, Association of Computing Machinery, Elsevier, Hindawi , Silverchair, and Wiley. ACM, AIP, APS, ACS, Elsevier, Silverchair, and Wiley representatives serve on the CHORUS Board of Directors and […]
CHORUS Helps Drive Public Access
CHORUS Helps Drive Public Access, Alice Meadows and Howard Ratner, NISO: Information Standards Quarterly, Summer 2014, 26(2): 32-33, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3789/isqv26no2.2014.06
Welcome Susan Spilka — Our New Marketing and Communications Director
I am pleased to announce the appointment of Susan Spilka as CHORUS’ Marketing and Communications Director, effective 2 September 2014.
CHORUS-Portico Agreement Supports Preservation Requirements of U.S. Federal OSTP Policy
The not-for-profit digital archive Portico and CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) have entered into an agreement to support the preservation requirements of the policy memorandum released in February 2013 by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).
CHORUS Moves Forward!
Important CHORUS milestones were achieved since Friday: The DOE’s announcement that it will be collaborating with CHORUS as part of its effort to public access to peer-reviewed articles reporting on DOE-funded research. CHORUS’ move from our pilot phase into production. These are important steps, but they are just a beginning. The CHORUS team is working […]
CHORUS Looks Forward to Working with the Department of Energy to Advance Access to Research
WASHINGTON D.C., August 4, 2014 — The Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that it will be collaborating with the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) as a component of its model for providing public access to peer-reviewed articles that report on DOE-funded research. CHORUS is a collaborative service developed by […]
CHORUS Goes Live Into Production!
Today, July 31, 2014, CHORUS achieves another milestone and enters into production as planned. What does this mean? It means that CHORUS is now open and ready for business. Adding to our Signatory options, CHORUS now offers several participation options, at different levels of engagement: Publisher and Affiliate Memberships; Funder Partnerships; and Academic Supporters. Publisher […]
CHORUS Seeking Business Development Manager
CHORUS has an immediate need for a Business Development Manager to join our start-up team. The Business Development Manager will develop and implement our development strategy, including: driving membership, grant writing, relationship building and engaging members and sponsors in organizational activities. This will initially be a contract / consultancy position of 9 – 12 months, […]
