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Cost-effective Open Access Solution
Increase and monitor access to your funded research without unnecessary cost and administrative overhead.
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Accountable, No-Cost Open Access
Supports optimized discovery, access, monitoring, and preservation of funded-research literature through open technology.
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Sustainable Solution for Open Access Delivery
A cost-effective, easy, and interoperable solution that directs users back to your site to access articles.
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Open Access Made Simple
Minimize the time you spend complying with funder requirements while maximizing access to your articles.
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Easy Access to the Latest Research
Makes it easy to find the best available version of research articles funded with your tax dollars.
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a new path to open access
An innovative and cost-effective approach to delivering open access to scholarly content reporting on funded research.
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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.
CHORUS INDICES
We have created essential indices to help you navigate today’s publishing landscape.
Funder Open Access / Public Access Plans
connects you directly to worldwide funder open access / public access requirements and data management plans.
Publisher Data Availability Policies Index
maps the push for transparency, showing how publishers now demand authors share underlying data or explain access barriers.
Software Citation Policies Index
tracks how publishers increasingly require proper citation of research software, following FORCE11 guidance.
US Agency Gold Standard Science Plans
lists agency plans in response to the OSTP Gold Standard Science guidance.
All provide direct links to original policies and get updated annually.
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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
University of Florida saves time and resources with CHORUS
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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.
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Chorus Dashboard Highlights
DOIs/Articles
Description
9,512,908
reported in CHORUS dashboard
2,934,686
openly accessible today
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.
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