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Howard Ratner, Director of Development, today revealed the CHORUS Pilot Phase system at the STM International Frankfurt Conference to a record breaking crowd of publishers. Download “Revealing the Pilot” presentation 8 October 2013 Please sign up as a signatory and also send us your feedback about the presentation! Enjoy!

The technical development enabling the pilot phase of the CHORUS service completed on September 30 and will be presented to global audiences at the STM Annual Conference and the Frankfurt Book Fair, both to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, October 7-9. These advances mark the next stage of development of the service and achieve milestones […]

Read the complete CHORUS Proof of Concept as presented to signatories, agencies and other stakeholders beginning August 30. This conceptual design report, presented by CHORUS Director of Development Howard Ratner, was the first milestone met in the rollout plan. Any questions, email info@publishers.org CHORUS POC FINAL 30 August 2013 Want to know How CHORUS Works? […]

The following publishers are actively contributing to the POC process: American Institute of Physics American Physical Society Elsevier IEEE John Wiley & Sons We will have more representative publishers participating in the Pilot. CHORUS has already collected several thousand metadata records from these five publishers for articles published in 2011-2013 derived from research based on […]

We will share the Proof of Concept beginning August 30. This is the conceptual framework outlining the services to be delivered in the Pilot. We will launch the Pilot at the end of September. This will allow us to demonstrate what has been built. We will offer a comprehensive CHORUS presentation at the STM/International Association […]

More organizations have been added to the list of signatories endorsing CHORUS.

Howard Ratner, who is well-known in scholarly publishing for his leadership work in technical services and standards, has joined CHORUS as Director of Development in its start-up phase to lead the proof of concept — a conceptual design framework — and pilot stages for all stakeholders. Most recently CTO and Executive Vice President, Nature Publishing Group, he […]

The list of signatories endorsing CHORUS includes publishers, resource partners, associations and other organizations involved in scholarly publishing. The signatory publishers represent a broad-based group that collectively produce the vast majority of the articles reporting on federally-funded research.

An informational factsheet explaining the CHORUS concept, how it would function, costs, governance, accountability and how it would benefit federal agencies, universities, libraries, researchers and publishers.