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SAVE THE DATE Join us at the next CHORUS Forum Mapping the Research Lifecycle – Connecting the Pieces Tuesday, June 6, 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT *Registration will open soon* Connecting people, places, and things throughout the research lifecycle is increasingly important to all stakeholders in the research ecosystem. Speakers and panelists in this […]

Directors were elected to the CHORUS/CHOR, Inc. Board of Directors at the Annual Members Meeting, 28 April 2023. New to the board is Michael Cairns (American Psychological Association). Returning to the CHORUS board are: Andrew Bostjancic (Taylor & Francis), Nick Campbell (Springer Nature), Ann Gabriel (Elsevier), Robert Harington (American Mathematical Society), Will Schweitzer (Silverchair), Christopher Straub […]

CHORUS is pleased to announce that both ChemRxiv and TechRxiv have signed with CHORUS for the CHORUS Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service. The CHORUS Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service provides a means to connect preprints to funders and datasets as well as information related to public accessibility and other key metadata. The dashboards provide non-ambiguous […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]