CHORUS Board Chair Susan King is Named Executive Director of Rockefeller University Press

by Sara GirardJune 2, 2015All, News & Press Releases

We are proud to share the news that Susan King, who chairs CHORUS’ Board of Directors, has joined Rockefeller University Press as its new Executive Director.  Susan joins RUP from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, DC, where she was Senior Vice President for the Journals Publishing Group since 2008. Susan will continue her leadership of CHORUS. […]

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CHORUS Update

by Sara GirardMay 11, 2015All, CHORUS Updates

Welcome New Members! CHORUS now has 27 members (24 Publisher Members and 3 Affiliate Members).  Our ranks are growing every week — new members include: American Meteorological Society American Mathematical Society American Astronomical Society AVS: Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces and Processing . With a majority of non-profit organizations as members and on our Board of Directors, […]

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US Department of Energy and CHORUS Sign Participation Agreement to Advance Public Access

by Sara GirardApril 20, 2015All, CHORUS Updates, News & Press Releases

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a Participation Agreement with CHORUS to contribute to the implementation of DOE PAGESBeta, the DOE’s Public Access Gateway for Energy & Science. The agreement, which is effective immediately, solidifies the collaboration that was announced in August 2014 and moves a two-year effort into the next phase of […]

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CHORUS Progress Report, April 2015

by Sara GirardApril 2, 2015All, CHORUS Updates

As of this month, CHORUS is providing access to and information about tens of thousands of articles reporting on federally funded research. CHORUS was also named by the US Department of Energy as part of its public-access solution. The significant progress we’ve made in the eight months since we moved into full production mode is […]

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CHORUS Reports on Significant Progress as US Agencies Focus on Public Access Policy Implementation

by Sara GirardApril 2, 2015All, News & Press Releases

STATEN ISLAND, NY. April 2, 2015. CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States), a cost-effective and sustainable public access solution, today issued a Progress Report on its first eight months in full production mode, which also coincides with the period since CHORUS was named by the US Department of Energy (DOE) as […]

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CLOCKSS and CHORUS Partner to Support Perpetual Public Access to Articles Reporting on US Funded Research

by Sara GirardMarch 30, 2015All, News & Press Releases

Stanford, CA and Staten Island, NY March 30, 2015. The CLOCKSS Archive, a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading academic publishers and research libraries, has entered into an agreement with CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States), the not-for-profit, cost-effective, and sustainable public access solution, to support the archiving, preservation, and […]

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Fred Dylla on the NSF Public Access Plan

by Sara GirardMarch 30, 2015All, Articles, News & Press Releases

In an article published today, Fred Dylla, AIP Executive Director and CEO and CHORUS Board Member, comments on the public access plan released by the National Science Foundation on March 18th.  The agency will use a branded version of DOE’s PAGES portal, supported by CHORUS.       Access the article on the AIP website…    

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New Year, New Members & More…

by Sara GirardJanuary 14, 2015All, CHORUS Updates

2014 was groundbreaking for CHORUS, a year in which we met or exceeded all of our milestones. Member publishers are now routinely and systematically identifying content with CrossRef’s FundRef tags, adding license information and making content publicly available on their platforms. CHORUS has an agreement in place with Portico for long-term preservation and expects a […]

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