CHORUS Signs its 100th Signatory
Publishers’ solution to increase public access to scholarly journals receives broad-based support February 19, Washington, DC – Support for the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) reached a milestone with the endorsement of its 100th signatory. CHORUS is offered by the publishing community as a solution to federal agencies, research institutions, […]
CHORUS Presents at Annual PSP Conference – February 6, 2014
There was a great plenary panel discussion “CHORUS: A Collaborative Approach to Public Access” at the annual PSP Conference “Managing Innovation: Meeting the Challenges of Change” in Washington DC on February 6. The panel included: Susan King, Senior Vice President, Journals Publishing Group, American Chemical Society; Mark Martin, Assistant Director Program Integration, Office of Scientific […]
Howard Ratner Appointed Executive Director of CHOR, Inc.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2014 — Howard Ratner, well known in the scholarly publishing community for his leadership work in technical services and standards, has been appointed as Executive Director of the new CHOR, Inc. not-for-profit organization. As Director of Development, Ratner successfully led the CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) proof […]
CHORUS Seeking Lead Developer
CHORUS has a position open for a Lead Developer to join our start-up team. The Lead Developer will be responsible for the design, systems analysis, implementation, and maintenance of components of our rapidly growing, mission-critical Web application serving the scholarly communication, academic and funding agency markets. They will be a full stack developer working on the […]
CHORUS Pilot Services
CHORUS launched Phase 1 of its pilot services back on September 30, 2013 and is actively adding new publishers for Phase 2. Find out more! These services have been featured during numerous webinars and conferences. We would love to hear what you think about these services. Contact us here. | Contact us | CHORUS is a service […]
What is CHORUS?
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 Builds on publishers’ existing infrastructure to enhance public access to […]
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 […]
