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In the fast-paced world of scientific research, where discovery and innovations occur daily, and scientific advancements propel society forward, there’s a critical but often overlooked component: research integrity. At its core, research integrity has a handful of ethical principles and values: honesty, objectivity, transparency, accountability, and fairness.  At the CHORUS forum on July 24th, a […]

CHORUS Forum, “Linking from Datasets to Content,” featured speakers discussing strategies, technologies, and best practices for effectively connecting data to the content it represents. Referencing a pre-forum poll that collected registrants’ views on the challenges and opportunities of linking datasets to content, moderator Shelley Stall shared some of the most common challenges: Simplifying the linking […]

CHORUS is pleased to announce that Optica Open has signed with CHORUS for the CHORUS Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service. The CHORUS Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service connects preprints to funders and datasets as well as information related to public accessibility and other key metadata. The dashboards provide non-ambiguous links between the preprint and published […]

At last month’s CHORUS Forum on Navigating the Future of Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) in Scholarly Publishing speakers presentations covered a lot of ground regarding benefits and challenges with PIDs but what stood out were:  Burdens: Researchers spending too much time on admin tasks and difficulties conducting analysis Benefits: Ability to track metrics and make reliable […]

JST/CHORUS Forum: Data as an Output of Publicly Funded Research at JOSS 2024 20 June 2024 At this joint JST/CHORUS Joint Forum speakers from Japan and the US will introduce their organizations’ respective strategies for publishing research data and discuss the challenges researchers face in complying with each country’s national requirements. Registration Open, see the Event page […]

Directors were elected to the CHORUS/CHOR, Inc. Board of Directors at the Annual Members Meeting held on18 April 2024. Newly elected to the board is Sybille Geisenheyner (American Chemical Society). Returning to the CHORUS board are: Dawn Melley (IEEE), Michael Levine-Clark, Diane Sullenberger.  All will serve a three-year term ending in 2027.  The board thanks […]

Save the Date CHORUS Forum:  Linking from Datasets to Content Join us for the CHORUS Forum: Supporting Accessibility Thursday, 27 June 2024 @ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT Registration to open soon!   Whether you’re a data scientist, content creator, software developer, or business strategist, this virtual event offers valuable insights and practical guidance […]

At last month’s CHORUS Forum: 12 Best Practices for Research Data Sharing speakers addressed the Joint Statement on Research Data Sharing by STM, DataCite and Crossref. The forum was moderated by Howard Ratner, Executive Director, CHORUS and sponsored by AIP Publishing, Association of American Publishers, Crossref, GeoScienceWorld, and STM. Hylke Koers, Chief Information Officer, STM […]

ARDC and DataCite have announced a partnership to deliver the RAiD Service. The Research Activity Identifier (RAiD) is a persistent identifier (PID) dedicated to research projects and activities, see announcement here https://ardc.edu.au/article/ardc-and-datacite-announce-partnership-to-deliver-the-raid-service/ The post highlights the problem(s) RAiD is trying to solve. See the June 2023 CHORUS Forum presentation given by Shawn Ross, Professor of […]

The Open Research Funders Group PID Strategy Working Group released their report, Developing a US PID National Strategy: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10811008. According to Todd Carpenter, this report authored in concert with the Research DataAlliance (RDA), Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) and the Open Research Funders Group  (ORFG), “… seeks to advance interoperability, simplify output […]