From: sspilka <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:12:01 -0400

Announcing CHOR Pilot Project with Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)

We are pleased to share the exciting news of our first agreement with
a funder outside of the US.

CHOR, Inc. has signed a Letter of Agreement with the Japan Science and
Technology Agency (JST), for a six-month Pilot project to explore and
support its public access compliance needs.

With public access still very much on the forefront, the Pilot is an
example of how CHOR is engaging with funders around the world to
develop sustainable solutions. According to CHOR Executive Director
Howard Ratner, "It's a landmark opportunity – the chance to help a
major Japanese government agency while it shapes its public access
compliance plans. At the same time, it adds another dimension to the
capabilities of CHOR services to monitor and track content reporting
on research funded by a major international funder outside the US."

CHOR and JST will work together to explore ways to improve the
monitoring of public accessibility of content reporting on JST-funded
research. Our collaboration will improve Japanese funder information
in the Crossref Open Funder Registry, enable linking via metadata
(based on Crossref funding data) from the Chiba University
institutional repository to published articles reporting on JST-funded
research on CHOR publisher members' sites, and develop a customized
Dashboard and Search Portal (including ORCID IDs, links to datasets,
and more).

We will meet regularly to evaluate progress and determine next steps.
CHOR will provide services free of charge to JST during the Pilot
period.

Pilot participants include Chiba University, one of the largest
national universities in Japan, and a number of CHOR Publisher
Members, including Association for Computing Machinery, American
Physical Society, Elsevier, IEEE, Oxford University Press, and Wiley.
All CHOR publisher members are welcome and encouraged to join the
initiative; several more have already expressed interest and will be
announced as they sign on.

For more information please contact Sara Girard at CHOR, Inc.
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ABOUT CHOR, Inc.

CHOR, Inc. is a non-profit membership global organization that
promotes and supports perpetual public access to content reporting on
funded research by leveraging existing and emergent digital technology
used by scholarly publishing organizations and others in the scholarly
community. CHOR's first service, CHORUS, focuses on published content
reporting on US-funded research. CHOR's 48 members collectively
produce the vast majority of published peer-reviewed journal articles.

ABOUT JST

The Japan Science and Technology Agency is an integrated organization
of science and technology that is establishing an infrastructure for
the entire process from the creation of knowledge to the return to
society. JST provides funding to achieve innovation in science and
technology through creative research and development, maximizes
research outcomes by managing research resources on the virtual
network, and develops Japan’s infrastructure for science and
technology to accelerate innovation in science and technology.

Best,
Susan
Susan Spilka
(516) 315-7721
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