From: sspilka <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:54:24 -0500

Please see the CHORUS announcement below.  For more information,
please feel free to contact me, or Keith Kirk at USGS:  [log in to unmask]

Susan Spilka
(516) 315-7721
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CHORUS Signs Agreement With USGS
to Collaborate for Advancing Public Access to Research

November 16, 2015. CHORUS, a non-profit organization, announced that
they have signed an agreement with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
a science agency for the US Department of the Interior, a federal
agency, to work together to implement the plan to increase public
access to publications resulting from research funded by USGS.  The
agreement, which is effective immediately, will help move USGS's
effort to the next phase of their existing public-access framework.

The USGS public-access plan builds on the objectives set forth in the
Office of Science and Technology Policy's February 22, 2013 memorandum
and long-standing USGS policies encouraging data sharing and
communication of research results (Refer to:
http://www.usgs.gov/usgs-manual/500/502-1.html). It will apply to new
awards resulting from proposals submitted, or due, on or after January
2016.

“CHORUS is honored to work with the USGS to help realize their
public-access solution," said Howard Ratner, Executive Director of
CHORUS. "The USGS-CHORUS agreement represents an important next step
in a successful public/private collaboration that is yielding benefits
for the public and promoting the needs of all involved in scholarly
communications around water, earth, and biological sciences.“

The agreement outlines how USGS and CHORUS will work together to build
on open standards, distributed network, and established infrastructure
to enable agency indexing of articles, advance access to publicly
available research articles, and enable the long-term preservation and
access to scholarly articles reporting on USGS-funded research.

The USGS system will dovetail with the interoperable CHORUS framework,
along with CrossRef's FundRef service, to provide the article
submission workflow for grantees and facilitate access to the best
available version of USGS publications on the publishers’ websites.
The articles will be discoverable via prominently displayed links on
search results on the USGS Publications Warehouse
(http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/) as well as common search engines and CHORUS
Search. CHORUS provides a freely available USGS Dashboard that
verifies and reports on whether articles are publicly accessible. In
addition, CHORUS publisher members are obligated to archive their
content with a recognized archive partner to enable perpetual public
accessibility. As a result, if a journal goes out of business or stops
making the article publicly available, USGS will be able to "brighten"
the archived version, guaranteeing compliance.


About CHORUS

CHORUS advances sustainable, cost-effective public access to articles
reporting on funded research in ways that benefit all in the scholarly
communications community.  A not-for-profit membership organization,
CHORUS leverages existing infrastructure and promotes collaboration,
innovation, and a broader dialogue among publishers, funders, service
providers, researchers, and other stakeholders.

About USGS

The USGS is a science organization that provides impartial information
on the health of our ecosystems and environment, the natural hazards
that threaten us, the natural resources we rely on, the impacts of
climate and land-use change, and the core science systems that help us
provide timely, relevant, and useable information.  USGS provides
science for a changing world. Visit USGS.gov, and follow on Twitter
@USGS and other social media channels.  Subscribe to news releases via
e-mail, RSS or Twitter.


Best,
Susan

Susan Spilka
(516) 315-7721
[log in to unmask]
www.chorusaccess.org