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Five directors were elected to the CHORUS/CHOR, Inc. Board of Directors at the Annual Members Meeting, 23 April  2021. New to the board are: Michael Levine-Clark (University of Denver) and Diane Sullenberger (PNAS). Returning to the CHORUS board are: Jack Ochs (ACS), Jon Glover (Wiley), Dawn Melley (IEEE).  All will serve a three-year term ending […]

CHORUS Forum: Making the Future of Open Research Work. There are many ways that infrastructure players (like CHORUS) can support the scholarly communications community as stakeholders work together to advance innovation in open science. Publishers are introducing new models to make more content open access. How do they connect metadata about their customers, researchers, and […]

Nominations to the CHORUS Board are due February 12, 2021. The CHORUS Board of Directors was elected by our membership last May during our 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 April 23, […]

CHORUS is pleased to help spread the word about the new focus of Metadata 20/20. On the relaunched website, Metadata 20/20 states “As we move into 2021 and beyond, Metadata 20/20 is officially shifting its focus to support a community driven and owned action plan.” The updated website launched 27 January 2021. One of the […]

SAVE THE DATE – CHORUS 2021 Annual Members Business Meeting April 23, 2021 “Virtual Zoom Meeting” Please save the date for the CHORUS 2021 Annual Members Business Meeting which will follow the CHORUS Forum: Making the Future of Open Research Work. The Forum will be featuring sessions on: New OA models – how do you comply? What […]

CHORUS is pleased to announce that we will not increase fees for membership or institution dashboard services for the 2021 calendar year. We recognize that many universities and publishers will face budget challenges due to the COVID-19 crisis. We hope that holding our membership and institution dashboard service fees at current rates will help our […]

Seven directors were elected to the CHORUS/CHOR, Inc. Board of Directors at the Annual Members Meeting, May 1, 2020. New to the board are two members: Dean Sanderson (Springer Nature) and Will Schweitzer (Silverchair). Returning to the CHORUS board are: Ann Gabriel (Elsevier), Sara Girard (AIP Publishing), Robert Harington (American Mathematical Society), Vincent Lizzi (Taylor […]

Introducing the CHORUS Publisher Data Availability Policies Index! CHORUS aims to accelerate the awareness of Open Science. It is CHORUS’ mission to streamline the process of complying with open access and public access funder mandates. Over the last few years, publishers have been making their Data Availability Policies known either at the publisher level or […]

CHORUS shares the US OSTP’s commitment to advancing public access to federally funded research, related data sets and code. In our April 8, 2020, response to their Request for Information: Public Access to Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications, Data and Code Resulting From Federally Funded Research, we offer to share the publication and compliance data that CHORUS […]

Guest Post by Mark Robertson Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and CHORUS jointly organised a workshop at JST’s Headquarters in Tokyo in February 2020. Thirty-one invited delegates attended from institutions in Japan that use or are trialling the CHORUS dashboard and data services. The program was as follows; Rick Anderson, Associate Dean for Collections and Scholarly Communication […]