Elections for the CHORUS / CHOR, Inc. Board of Directors were held at the organisation's Annual Members Meeting on February 3, 2016, in Washington, D.C., further to the expiration of the Interim Board that has served CHORUS during its initial formation, just over 2 years after incorporation.
CHORUS members gathered in person or by proxy to vote to elect the members of the Board of Directors. The candidates were elected for staggered one, two, and three-year terms; going forward all terms will be three years. As required by the CHORUS By-laws, a majority of Directors represent not-for-profit organisations. Eleven elected Directors served on CHORUS’s Interim Board. Howard Ratner, Executive Director, serves as an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors.
New to the CHORUS Board of Directors are John Sack (HighWire Press) and Matthew Salter (American Physical Society).
Dr. Joe Serene has stepped down from the Board following his retirement from the American Physical Society.
Immediately following the Annual Members Meeting, the new Board convened its first meeting to elect the CHORUS Officers. Susan King (Rockefeller University Press) will continue as CHORUS Chair and John Tagler (Association of American Publishers) as Secretary. Scott Delman (Association for Computing Machinery) was elected as Treasurer. A member of the scholarly publishing community for two decades, Delman currently serves as ACM's Director of Group Publishing & Digital Library Sales, leading ACM’s Digital Library publication platform and shaping ACM's policies and editorial approach to Open Access.
Executive Director Howard Ratner (who continues to serve as a CHORUS Officer and non-voting member of the Board), and Treasurer Joe Serene provided an update at the Annual Members Meeting reporting on CHORUS' operational and financial performance over the past year as well as plans for the year ahead, highlighting establishing a strong foundation of funders, partners, and members; onboarding five federal agencies and the first wave of articles publicly available via CHORUS under agency plans; and monitoring of 200,000 articles for public access and long-term availability, more than 43,000 of which are already freely available to the public.
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