Open to publishing organizations and businesses (fee-based).

Publisher Members are entitled to the full array of benefits and services CHORUS  provides, notably a confidential dashboard for monitoring the open access status of your published articles reporting on funded research. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to run for our Board of Directors and/or join our working groups, thereby contributing to CHORUS’ governance and helping guide our future. Membership also includes a listing and logo on the CHORUS website, as well as other opportunities to promote your membership.

CURRENT AGREEMENT – UPDATED OCTOBER 2024

About CHORUS’ Fees

Member fees (see current agreement, table, and notes below) are vital to CHORUS’ success—they cover our lean development and operating expenses. Yet they represent good value for our member businesses and organizations, amounting to much less of an investment than would be needed for your own open access compliance framework.

CHORUS is a service run by CHOR, Inc. an independent not-for-profit membership organization. CHOR, Inc. reserves the right to change these fees in the future. For General Publisher Member Policies, see Membership Agreement.

2024 Publisher Member Fees ($US)

  • <$2.5m Total Publishing Revenue: $662
  • ≤$5m Total Publishing Revenue: $1,313
  • ≤$10m Total Publishing Revenue: $2,548
  • ≤$20m Total Publishing Revenue: $5,969
  • ≤$50m Total Publishing Revenue: $11,927
  • ≤$100m Total Publishing Revenue: $23,860
  • ≤$200m Total Publishing Revenue: $41,806
  • ≤$500m Total Publishing Revenue: $59,702
  • >$500m Total Publishing Revenue: $89,580

Notes on definition of “Total Publishing Revenue”

  1. Total Publishing Revenue includes all publishing revenue from all the divisions of an organization (primary and secondary) for all types of activities (advertising, books, journals, databases, article charges, etc). For membership organizations, member dues allocated to subscriptions will be included in total publishing revenue.
  2. For organizations that publish scholarly information as an ancillary activity, such as government organizations, the higher of either (1) total expenses for publishing operations or (2) gross publishing revenue should be used in determining the appropriate membership fee.
  3. The member is considered to be the largest legal entity rather than a division. Membership fee billing will be done on a calendar year basis.
  4. Members will self-categorize.

Member Obligations

  • Sign the CHORUS Publisher Member Agreement
  • Pay your fees to help cover expenses
  • Become a member of Crossref and sign up for Crossref’s Funder Registry
  • Submit funding related data to Crossref for all new content
  • Send open access content reuse License and Embargo metadata to Crossref
  • Deposit full text URLs with Crossref
  • Send relevant content to an associated archiving service such as CLOCKSS and Portico
  • Expand open access from your online platform to provide access to the Best Available Version(s) of articles reporting on funded research (Accepted Manuscript or Version of Record) after an embargo or immediately according to your license terms

Request Membership

Please email info@chorusaccess.org if you wish to join as a Publisher Member.