What is CHORUS?
The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) is a not-for-profit public-private partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications that report on federally funded research. Conceived by publishers, CHORUS: Provides a solution for agencies to comply with the OSTP memo on public access to peer-reviewed scientific publications reporting on federally-funded research […]
Howard Ratner Speaks on CHORUS and ORCID (SSP Scholarly Kitchen Podcast)
(From SSP Scholarly Kitchen) In this episode, Howard Ratner, Director of Development at CHORUS, provides a status report on the project, a partnership between publishers and federal agencies to facilitate public access to federally funded research; talks about opportunities for synergies between CHORUS and other public-access vehicles; discusses next steps on the project; and also […]
CHORUS: Moving Research Publications in line with US Federal Funding Requirements
Editorial: CHORUS: Moving Research Publications in line with US Federal Funding Requirements, Diane Scott-Lichter, Learned Publishing, 26:236-238, October 2013, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20130401
“Revealing the Pilot” STM Frankfurt Conference Slides now available
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!
CHORUS Enters Pilot Phase – to be unveiled at STM Annual Conference and Frankfurt Bookfair
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 […]
CHORUS Proof of Concept Unveiled
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? […]
CHORUS Conceptual Design Overview Graphic
New highlights from the CHORUS process
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 […]
The Next CHORUS Deadlines
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 […]
CHORUS Signatories List Reaches 70 Organizations
More organizations have been added to the list of signatories endorsing CHORUS.