CHORUS Inks Agreement with NSF, USGS, NIST

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-01-22

Summary:

"CHORUS (the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) has partnered with a number of federal agencies over the past six months to help them comply with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directives requiring open access to federally funded research. The United States Department of Energy (DOE), the Smithsonian Institutin, the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have all reached agreements with CHORUS. CHORUS was formed as a not-for-profit membership organization in 2013 in response to the OSTP memo, which required all federal funding agencies to develop public access plans for sharing both research data and peer-reviewed publications. Using metadata such as funder identifiers, award numbers, and Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCIDs), CHORUS provides stable digital identifiers to full-text peer-reviewed articles after an embargo period, customarily 12 months. These can then be accessed by funders, institutions, researchers, publishers, and the public through CHORUS’s open application programming interfaces (APIs), which include search and dashboard services. CHORUS identifies federal funding through Funding Data, previously called FundRef, which collects funding source information for publications deposited with the nonprofit citation linker Crossref. The directive called for agencies to offer free public access to the best available full-text version of scholarly articles whose research they had funded—either the version of record, as published on the journal’s website, or the accepted manuscript, which contains the same information but has not been copyedited or converted to XML. Each agency was free to develop its own open access plan. Many had their own repositories or portals in place; nonetheless a number turned to CHORUS for additional support in managing access to content and metadata ..."

Link:

http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/01/oa/chorus-inks-agreement-with-nsf-usgs-nist/#_

From feeds:

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

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.chorus oa.nsf oa.usgs oa.nist oa.usa oa.government oa.funders oa.mandates oa.green oa.obama_directive oa.compliance oa.repositories oa.policies

Date tagged:

01/22/2016, 10:55

Date published:

01/22/2016, 05:55