Abstract
CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States) offers an open technology platform in response to the public access requirements of US federal funding agencies, researchers, institutions and the public. It is focused on five principal sets of functions: identification, preservation, discovery, access, and compliance . CHORUS facilitates public access to peer-reviewed publications, after a determined embargo period (where applicable), for each discipline and agency. By leveraging existing tools such as CrossRef, FundRef and ORCID, CHORUS allows a greater proportion of funding to remain focused on research. CHORUS identifies articles that report on federally funded research and enables a reader to access the ‘best available version’ free of charge, via the publisher. It is a scalable solution that offers maximum efficiency for all parties by automating as much of the process as is possible. CHORUS launched in pilot phase in September 2013, and the production phase will begin in early 2014.
Highlights
Over the last five years, the United States government has evolved new approaches for improving public access to the results of publicly funded research[1]
Leverages existing tools such as CrossRef, FundRef, and ORCID10 to facilitate public access to peer-reviewed publications resulting from public funding
· librarians want to have access to the best available version of content for their patrons, conduct text and data mining (TDM), have confidence that these articles will be readily available in perpetuity, help researchers comply with funding agency requirements, and build discovery tools for researchers
Summary
Over the last five years, the United States government has evolved new approaches for improving public access to the results of publicly funded research[1]. In 2009, the White House sponsored the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, drawing together US agencies, institutions and publishers into productive discussions; this helped to inform the America COMPETES Act of 2010, which aims to drive and maximize investment in innovation and research in the US.[2] In March 2012, the US White House Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued ‘Interagency Public Access Coordination’, which reported on ‘progress toward the coordination of policies’ related to the ‘dissemination and long-term stewardship of the results of Federally funded scientific research’ required by America COMPETES3 In response to these events, CrossRef[4], publishers, and funding agencies joined together to start the FundRef[5] pilot program. FundRef, officially launched in 2013, offers standard methods for identifying the funding sources of published articles, allowing funding agencies to track the results of their efforts
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