Open Access Week Webinar 2014

Editor's Notes

• #3: Plans due on August 22nd, 2013 Silence since then and into that spaced solution providers stepped in. Much of the debate following the White House order had centred on whether agencies would create online stores of their free papers, or would link out to free papers elsewhere. The US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the only other federal agency with a public-access policy, had created the popular PubMed Central (PMC), a store of free-to-read manuscripts. But publishers argued this repository was taking away their online hits, and instead launched their own effort, called CHORUS, by which they proposed to make the final published version (or ‘version of record’) of US government-funded papers free at their own websites. http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014/08/04/us-department-of-energy-announces-public-access-plan/
• #4: PAGES = Public Access Gateway for Energy and Science Centralized sources of metadata VoR first, Then AAM in IR if not then will host themselves 1st criteria causing some consternation amongt non-CHORUS publishers, partcularly OA Publihsers
• #25: Thank you for giving me the opportunity to introduce you to CHORUS. CHORUS is a solution for public access. It focuses on five things: Identification, Discovery, Access, Preservation and Compliance.
• #26: As David said the OSTP memo issued in February of last year. Since October 2013 CHORUS publishers have been providing public access to the best available version – either accepted author manuscript or Version of Record – from their website post embargo or sooner if paid by article processing chargeCHORUS uses open APIs enabling content syndication and search services CHORUS enables archiving via CLOCKSS, Portico, and other government sponsored archivesCHORUS infrastructure can link to data repositories when availableCHORUS is ready to work with agencies
• #27: A broad coalition of scholarly publishers formed to develop, implement and steward a partnership with the federal research funders for providing public access to the peer-reviewed publications that report on funded research. Evolved from an ad-hoc group of publishers who initiated partnership discussions with several agencies in Spring 2011 Here is a look at the variety of publishers and scholarly societies that make up the CHORUS Board. The majority are not profit – AIPP, APS. IEEE, OUP and ACS and we have over 100 signatories
• #28: You can see that there are a wide variety of organizations represented here. From small to large and non-profit to commercial. Purely American to international Note the RSC, Royal Society, Nature Publishing Group, Taylor & Francis
• #29: So, where are we now and where are we heading…… Have a look at the timeline.
• #30: Over the last year, the CHORUS board and I have had countless meeting with government agencies teaching them about CHORUS and what publishers have to offer them regarding delivering Public Access.
• #31: But Why CHORUS? CHORUS addresses the priorities of all stakeholders alike. It is sustainable and cost-effective, containing publisher spending, cutting funder overhead, and Free to funders, academic institutions and libraries, and the public. Widespread access to research is a good thing—it’s at the very core of our mission as publishers. But as we all know, coming up with a sustainable and scalable approach to delivering free public access to scholarly content reporting on funded research in the United States is easier said than done. The challenge is to develop something that works for all everyone, ensuring the reliable reporting, review, dissemination and long-term availability of research literature.
• #32: We have identified over a dozen key stakeholders for CHORUS. Here are the perhaps the top five: Alan – meet OSTP guidelines and measure grantee & agency compliance with the guidelines show how his agency’s investments are having impact (ROI) and providing access Rachel – wants to obtain funding for her research, comply with funding agency requirements, AVOID extra administrative work Lottie – wants to make sure her patrons have access to the content they need help researchers comply with funding agency requirements Peter – wants access to content to research a problem and drive economic development have content connected to learning tools Penny – wants to help authors and institutions comply with funder mandates retain traffic on her websites and keep content in context
• #38: The other four services are: Identification – done on the Publishers Manuscript Tracking System using the CrossRef FundRef system Discovery – using the CHORUS search engine or an agency developed one all using Open APIs into the CrossRef metadata Compliance – using our Dashboard service Finally, preservation utilizing the existing services of CLOCKSS and Portico – industry standards in scholarly publishing
• #39: SHARE and CHORUS met in July 2013 to discuss initiatives and explore areas of possible collaboration. Both agreed to work jointly on persistent identifiers (DOIs) and metrics (dashboard could potentially be used to expose metrics from SHARE). Metrics to be determined, but most important message here is the potential collaboration and spirit of working together to solve problems... And both agreed to follow up in next few months
• #41: Thank you!