CHORUS Announces No Fee Increases in 2021
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 […]
CHORUS Board of Directors Election Results
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
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 Responds to US Office of Science and Technology Policy 2020 RFI on Public Access
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 […]
JST and CHORUS Hold an Invitation Only Workshop at JST Headquarters in Tokyo (12 February 2020)
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 […]
How the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries use CHORUS dashboard’s data, tools, and reporting to save time and resources
The CHORUS/UFL Institution Pilot ran from July 2016 – May 2017. Participants included: University of Florida, University of Denver, American Chemical Society, Association for Computing Machinery, American Physical Society, Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Rockefeller University Press, and Wiley. Collaboration among the participants resulted in the November 2018 launch of the CHORUS Institution dashboard. You can […]
CHORUS Dashboard Service and Initiatives at Chiba University Library
Chiba University in Japan has been a CHORUS institutional subscriber since 2017. This article tells the story of their partnership with CHORUS and how they have developed a workflow to use the CHORUS data to link to open access articles published by their researchers in their institutional repository CURATOR. The article was published in the […]
CHORUS Publisher Implementation Guide v2.3 Released
The latest version of the CHORUS Publisher Implementation Guide is now posted in our Resources section. Considerable thanks to Evan Owens and the Technical Working Group for this achievement. Please send any feedback to us via support@chorusaccess.org
Landscape of Open Science in Japan
Dr. Yasushi Ogasaka, Director of the Department for Information Infrastructure at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), gave the keynote presentation at the inaugural Asia-Pacific meeting of the International Association of STM Publishers (STM) in Hong Kong in June 2019. This paper, based Dr. Ogasaka’s address, shares the evolution of open science in Japan […]
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Signs Participation Agreement with CHORUS
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has signed a participation agreement with CHORUS to expand public access to the results of its funded research.
