CHORUS is now live - how does it stack up to PubMed?

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-08-04

Summary:

" ... Only it fails in the one thing that it claims to support, public access - at least as far as I can tell so far. And this is the big worry we’ve had all along, that a paywall publisher backed solution to the White House’s OSTP mandate would not work. For a critical overview of the concerns see Michael Eisen’s comments from one year ago when CHORUS was announced. Why isn’t CHORUS working? Let us jump right into doing a search. Here’s an example query for NIH funded research. When I ran this search today (August 1, 2014) I got only 3,775 results. Hmmm. That can’t be right, can it? Only 3,775 NIH funded articles? ..."

Link:

http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/93491152939/chorus-is-now-live-how-does-it-stack-up-to-pubmed

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.chorus oa.publishers oa.business_models oa.embargoes oa.usa oa.compliance oa.obama_directive oa.funders oa.green oa.repositories

Date tagged:

08/04/2014, 10:16

Date published:

08/04/2014, 06:16