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Accessibility is a key factor in the push to make scholarly communications a more equitable, inclusive space. By making articles, books, and conference proceedings more accessible to individuals with disabilities — by ensuring everyone has equal access to scientific knowledge — we strengthen and expand the broader research community. The need to embrace and act […]

CHORUS has proudly joined the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) aspart of our ongoing commitment to fostering diversity and inclusivity within the scholarly communication landscape. CHORUS, like many other organizations in our industry, acknowledges the immense value of a diverse array of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. As a member of C4DISC, […]

At last month’s CHORUS Forum on Real World Impacts on Faculty Publications speakers tackled the issues about what real-world impact means and how it might be measured. Panelists touched on a variety of issues within the topic and highlighted tools and systems designed to answer the hard questions around the challenges of finding ways to […]

Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers Jamaica Jones, University of Pittsburgh Tara Packer, CHORUS Howard Ratner, CHORUS The Global Research Infrastructure (GRI) is made up of the repositories and organizations that provide persistent identifiers (PIDs) and metadata about many kinds of research objects (preprints, published papers, datasets, dissertations, proposals, reviews, etc.)  and the connections between these […]

Join us in October for the CHORUS Forum: Supporting Accessibility Tuesday, 24 October 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT Registration will open soon! Supporting accessibility in scholarly communications has a number of positive impacts, both for individuals and for the broader research community. While important work is being done to make content accessible to people […]

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released their revised public access plan on 30 June 2023. Read the USDOE announcement here. The plan describes how DOE-funded research and digital data will become more open and available to the public and how DOE will use persistent identifiers to help ensure scientific and research integrity. This plan builds […]

Join us at the next CHORUS Forum Real World Impact of Faculty Publications Tuesday, 26 September 2023 @ 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT   Academic institutions are interested in measuring the real-world impact of faculty publications. What does “real-world impact” mean in this context, and how might it be measured? Once measured, what are the best […]

The 6 June 2023 CHORUS Forum was an open discussion around what it takes to connect pieces of the research lifecycle. The forum was moderated by Phill Jones of MoreBrains Cooperative and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery, AIP Publishing, GeoScienceWorld, Silverchair, and STM. Phill Jones, MoreBrains Cooperative, along with Lori Schultz, Assistant Vice […]

NASA released a request for public input on the “NASA’s Public Access Plan, Increasing Access to the Results of Scientific Research” (NASA Public Access Plan).  The NASA Public Access Plan outlines the proposed approach NASA will take to implement the new guidance, consistent with its longstanding commitment to public access. CHORUS is pleased that NASA […]

With a slate of excellent presenters and over 160 registrants for this 19 April 2023 Forum, we held a robust discussion around the value of open data software sharing in a world of open science from the researcher perspective and those who manage support systems. Much gratitude goes to our generous sponsors of this forum: […]