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Making Open Research Work
CHORUS brings together funders, societies, publishers, institutions, and the public from across the open research ecosystem to share knowledge, develop solutions, advance innovation, and support collective efforts.
WHAT WE DO
- Provide trusted information about the outputs of funded research
- Help funders, institutions, publishers, and the public see, find, and understand the status of the outputs of funded research
- Identify research outputs that are easily and permanently discoverable and accessible by anyone in the world
- Minimize compliance burdens for researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers
- Deliver optimized search and dashboard services for monitoring and compliance
HOW WE DO IT
CHORUS collects information about published articles and data, and provides visualization tools that help users understand these outputs related to funded research.
CHORUS uses open technologies to optimize content discovery, long-term accessibility, funder identification, compliance monitoring, and dashboard reporting.
CHORUS is interoperable with other public-access delivery solutions, agency search portals, publisher platforms, and scholarly repositories and archives.
THE WHITE HOUSE FACT SHEET
Biden-Harris Administration Marks the Anniversary of OSTP’s Year of Open Science, 31 January 2024. Learn More
OPEN RESEARCH PRINCIPLES
Open research is concerned with making scientific research more transparent, more collaborative and more efficient. Other aspects are more open forms of collaboration and engagement with a wider audience. The following principles were set forth by CHORUS in support of open research.
SUCCESS STORIES
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Events
- JST/CHORUS Virtual Forum – The Many Paths to Open Access
- CHORUS Forum: Open Access and Data Sharing in the Humanities and Social Science Recording Available
News
- NISO Publishes Update to Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) Standard 1.4
- Optica Open takes up CHORUS Preprint Service
- C4DISC Releases Workplace Equity in Scholarly Communications 2023 Executive Summary
- Developing a US National PID Strategy Report Released
Resources
- Chiba University CHORUS Workflow
- CHORUS Workflow for Japan Explained
- CHORUS Use-Case Workshop for Institutions in Japan
- New Resources to Enhance Open Research
- Accessibility Resources
- CHORUS Funder Participants OA / PA Plans
- US Funding Agencies – Public Access Plans
- Guide to Accelerate Public Access to Research Data
- Publisher Data Availabilities Policies Index
- Software Citation Policies Index
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About Chorus
CHORUS is a simple, affordable, community-developed solution for monitoring open access to content and datasets reporting on funded research.
CHORUS minimizes open access compliance burdens while increasing access to content and data in supporting funder mandates.
CHORUS provides the necessary metadata infrastructure and governance enabling a smooth, low-friction interface between funders, authors, institutions, and publishers in a distributed network environment.
Current Articles
The chart represents the growth in the number of articles identified as reporting on funded research that have been reported by CHORUS since June 2014. This number has gone up significantly because we are now tracking all funders worldwide.
Chorus Dashboard Highlights
The top number is the current count of articles reported in the CHORUS database. This number has gone up significantly because we are now tracking all funders worldwide. The bottom number is how many are openly accessible today from our publisher members.
Research funders working with CHORUS as part of their open or public-access plans, pilot projects, or linking arrangements.