The Association of American Publishers: Understanding CHORUS

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-06-08

Summary:

Use the link to access the full text blog post opening as follows: "What is CHORUS? The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) is a framework for a possible public-private partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications that report on federally-funded research. Conceived by publishers, CHORUS would: • Provide a full solution for agencies to comply with the OSTP memo on public access to peer-reviewed scientific publications reporting on federally-funded research • Build on publishers’ existing infrastructure to enhance public access to research literature, avoiding duplication of effort, minimizing cost to the government and ensuring the continued availability of the research literature • Serve the public by creating a streamlined, cohesive way to expand access to peer-reviewed articles reporting on federally-funded research. Reflecting the OSTP memo, CHORUS will present and preserve these as digital form, final peer-reviewed manuscripts or final published documents • Support funding agencies in fulfilling the OSTP directive to provide public access, use public-private partnerships where possible and avoid extra-budgetary costs; CHORUS would require little to no federal funding • Utilize current and developing tools, resources and protocols for discoverability, search, archiving and preservation (such as CrossRef, FundRef and ORCID), ensuring continued innovation in the delivery of scholarly communication ...  What would CHORUS do? • Identify journal articles resulting from federal funding • Enable a reader to access, free of charge, a full-text version of all peer-reviewed articles reporting on the results of federally funded research  • Streamline compliance for authors and funding agencies by integrating public access into the publishing system • Provide an open structure to enable discovery and search through familiar, commercial search engines such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search as well as government and library search systems • Ensure ongoing and longterm access to and preservation of these articles and their updates • Leverage CrossRef's new text and data mining project “Prospect.” The proposed Prospect system will allow text and data mining tools to be applied across publishers’ platforms under protocols that protect both the user and the source content.  Who is involved in CHORUS? • CHORUS represents a broad-based group of scholarly publishers, both commercial and not-for-profit; this group collectively publishes the vast majority of the articles reporting on federally-funded research  • CHORUS includes a resource partner, CrossRef (details on CrossRef and FundRef follow), a nonprofit organization responsible for enabling linking among the world's scholarly publishing platforms   • Publishers involved in CHORUS have engaged with funding agencies subject to the OSTP memo and are in continuing discussions to determine how CHORUS can suit agency needs ..."

Link:

http://publishers.org/press/107/

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.business_models oa.publishers oa.comment oa.mandates oa.usa oa.green oa.aap oa.funders oa.compliance oa.crossref oa.fundref oa.ostp oa.orcid oa.obama_directive oa.chorus oa.repositories oa.policies

Date tagged:

06/08/2013, 12:13

Date published:

06/08/2013, 08:13