From: sspilka <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 06:49:05 -0500

February 3, 2016.  CHORUS, a non-profit organization, announced an
agreement with the US Department of Defense (DoD) through its Defense
Technical Information Center (DTIC) as part of the agency’s continued
commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded
research.

The new agreement will support the Department of Defense Public Access
Plan, which is being implemented by DTIC. DoD’s public access plan is
intended to accelerate the dissemination of DoD-funded research
results that will advance the frontiers of knowledge and promote
national security.

DTIC will employ CHORUS' services to build on open standards,
distributed networks and established infrastructure to advance access
to scholarly articles reporting on DoD-funded research, as well as
enable agency indexing and long-term preservation of those articles.
The DoD system will dovetail with the interoperable CHORUS framework,
along with Crossref's Open Funder Registry, to provide an article
submission workflow for DoD-funded researchers and facilitate public
access to all articles that report on DoD-funded research.  The
agreement enables readers searching DTIC's Public Access Search to
follow links that point to publicly available articles/accepted
manuscripts in context of the journal where they were published.

“CHORUS is honored to be working with the DTIC to implement public
access for content reporting on research funded by the Department of
Defense," said Howard Ratner, Executive Director of CHORUS. "This is a
landmark event for CHORUS as DoD is one of the biggest funders of
research. We are now working with six US federal funders -- including
three of the four largest agencies: DoD, NSF, and DOE.  These
successful public/private collaborations are already yielding benefits
for the public and promoting the needs of all involved in scholarly
communications.” CHORUS also has agreements in place with the United
States Geological Survey, Smithsonian, and NIST and expects to
announce agreements with more agencies soon.

The CHORUS service is provided free of charge to federal agencies to
help them deliver unique public-access solutions that avoid
duplication of effort, minimize administrative costs, and maximize
compliance.  Its interoperable, distributed approach knits together
existing tools, services, and infrastructure to facilitate sustainable
public access, sharing, discoverability, reporting, and preservation
of content reporting on funded research.  CHORUS' open API
(application programming interface) enables funders and others to
develop their own search functionality tapping into its data
identifying articles associated with funding agencies and invites
innovators to develop new tools and functionality that further support
discovery and public access.

For questions about the DoD Public Access Plan, please see the Plan
and Memo.  The plan is consistent with White House Office of Science
and Technology Policy efforts to encourage science-funding agencies to
develop plans to increase access to the results of federally funded
research.

About DTIC

The Defense Technical Information Center serves the DoD as the largest
central resource for the collection, preservation, protection and
sharing of public, controlled unclassified and classified technical
information to authorized military, industry, educational
institutions, other government agencies, and the public.  DTIC also
manages the Information Analysis Centers, which provide essential
technical analysis and data support to a diverse customer base, to
include the Combatant Commands (CCMDs), the Office of the Secretary of
Defense, Defense agencies, and the Military Services.

Through the delivery of innovative information discovery, analytic and
collaboration systems DTIC is able to expand the view of the research
and development efforts funded by DoD.  DTIC is an efficiency enabler,
empowering DoD to build on past research, analyze technology
capabilities and trends, and collaborate on innovations to expedite
solutions to the Warfighter.  To learn more about DTIC visit
http//:www.dtic.mil or contact the Public Affairs Office at
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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, promotes collaboration,
sparks innovation, and broadens the dialogue among publishers,
funders, service providers, researchers, and other stakeholders.

CHORUS’ 43 members and 120 signatories collectively produce the vast
majority of published peer-reviewed journal articles.  As of January
12, 2016 (20 months since our establishment), it is monitoring 200,000
articles reporting on research funded by 24 funding agencies (numbers
increase daily).  CHORUS audits the articles for public access and
long-term availability (more than 43,000 of the articles are already
freely accessible to the public), report this data on its website via
dashboards, and is committed – as are its member publishers – to
maintaining the accessibility and integrity of the scholarly record.

Contacts
Susan Spilka
CHORUS

Best,
Susan
Susan Spilka
(516) 315-7721
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www.chorusaccess.org