Building CHORUS note by note | American Institute of Physics

" ... When one partner organization is a major federal agency with a 60+ year legacy of funding and promoting science and the other partner is a small, nonprofit start-up with big ambitions, the need for a step-by-step engagement becomes even more important. Such is the backdrop for last Monday’s (April 20) announcement of the signing of the Participation Agreement between the Department of Energy (DOE) and the CHORUS organization—a budding member organization of publishers and publishing services providers whose mission is to develop and implement pragmatic methods for providing access to scholarly articles that report on publically funded research. DOE made note of their planned partnership with CHORUS when this agency announced its public access plan last August and since then have been working out the details of the agreement. Essentially, CHORUS infrastructure will help support DOE’s PAGES public access portal, whereby users can view accessible articles on publishers’ platforms. DOE was the first agency to announce a plan for making the results of this agency’s research funding, including research reports, publications, and data, available to the public. Since the DOE plan was announced, other US federal agencies have announced their plans, and several more are expected this spring. This column noted the announcement of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) public access plan last month. NSF coordinated its plan with DOE because it intends to use both DOE and CHORUS technical infrastructure ..."