SHARE and CHORUS | Jisc Scholarly Communications

" ... Rachel Bruce and Neil Jacobs met the teams behind two of the leading US initiatives in scholarly and research communication, SHARE and CHORUS. Here, we outline what we found and what it might mean for UK universities and the Jisc projects and services that relate to these areas. SHARE and CHORUS are often uttered in the same sentence, and usually that sentence also makes reference to the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) so, to understand them it is probably worth saying a little about the US policy environment. In 2013, the OSTP issued a memo requiring all significant federal agencies that support research to produce plans for how they will implement the more open sharing of research outputs, covering both publications and research data. These plans were to be submitted to the OSTP later that year, approved and then implemented. The plans have been submitted and, we understand, discussions are ongoing with respect to the next steps. While SHARE and CHORUS were in some ways born out of this policy context, as responses respectively by the library and the publisher communities, they both in some ways transcend that context and have implications, for example, in UK higher education ..."