CHORUS, a non-profit organisation, has announced an agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF), as part of the agency's continued commitment to expand public access to the results of its funded research.
The new agreement is in accordance with the NSF public access plan, which was released on March 18, 2015. NSF's public access plan is intended to accelerate the dissemination of fundamental research results that will advance the frontiers of knowledge and help ensure the nation's future prosperity.
NSF will employ the CHORUS service to build on open standards, distributed networks and established infrastructure to enable agency indexing of articles, advance access to publicly available research articles, and enable the long-term preservation of and access to scholarly articles reporting on NSF-funded research.
Per this new agreement, the CHORUS service will support NSF's existing partnership with the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information to provide distributed repository and search services linking to the best available version on publishers' sites when possible.
As with the DOE, the NSF system will dovetail with the interoperable CHORUS framework, along with CrossRef's Open Funder Registry, to provide the article submission workflow for grantees and facilitate public access to all articles that report on NSF funded research. CHORUS enables readers searching the NSF Public Access Repository (NSF-PAR), hosted by DOE, to follow links that point to articles in context of the journal where they were published.
The CHORUS service is provided free of charge to federal agencies.
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