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AGU/CHORUS Forum: How Open is Open Data & Software?

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“The word “open” is being used commonly in scholarly communications with little context as to what is meant or intended. Researchers have been working openly to their advantage throughout their careers.  What is different now, and what is the value of “being open”?  Is open a binary option?  On or off?  OR is “open” dependent on your context and research objectives with the necessary flexibility?  When we are being open, what is our responsibility around attribution and credit? 

The speakers of this AGU/CHORUS Forum will discuss the open sharing of data and software as a researcher, within a team, and across a community and how it better supports discovery, collaboration, transparency and innovation.”

CHORUS and IEEE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pilot a TechRxiv preprint dashboard service – CHORUS

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CHORUS will create a Preprint Dashboard and Reporting Service to identify related funders, datasets, reuse licenses, ORCID identifiers, and links to published articles on publisher sites and government public access repositories. The preprint dashboard will aid in discoverability of preprints associated with funded research – providing insight into where research is first being shared. The dashboard has the potential to provide non-ambiguous links between the preprint and published research, researchers, and their funding.

CHORUS Forum: Making FAIR’s Interoperability and Reusability Data Goals Possible – CHORUS

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“Since their publication in 2016, the FAIR Data Guiding Principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) have become clear and enabling goals to work towards in any work or policies around data.  As metrics have been developed around them, FAIR has become a set of tangible targets for funders, publishers, institutions and researchers to aim at and to be measured against.  Unsurprisingly, considerable work has gone into practically enabling all to achieve these.  For many (not all) it has become reasonable to expect data to be published in a manner that results in it being both Findable and Accessible. 

However, making these data furthermore Interoperable and Reusable remains a significant challenge.  This AGU / CHORUS Forum will have government, funder, academic institution, and scientific society stakeholders outline why I & R are proving so challenging, and will showcase some of the partial solutions being put into practice.  Finally, the audience will be invited to comment on at least one new promising solution. …”

Open Research Principles – CHORUS

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“Open research is concerned with making scientific research more transparent, more collaborative and more efficient. Other aspects are more open forms of collaboration and engagement with a wider audience. The following principles were set forth by CHORUS in support of open research.

We believe in sustainable Open Access practices and workflows.
We believe that it should be easy for researchers to understand how publishing in our publications will support them in complying with funder OA mandates.
We believe users should be directed to the best version of an article available to them, ideally the Version of Record on the publisher site, where they may find essential context, tools, and information.
We believe all parties should be able to track funded research literature with minimal administrative overheads.
We believe data associated with research, as well as methods and code, should comply with relevant FAIR principles, taking into account differences between fields and categories of research objects.”

CHORUS and ChemRxiv sign MOU to advance discoverability of preprints associated with funded research – CHORUS

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“CHORUS and ChemRxiv have signed a one-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to pilot a preprint dashboard service.

By using persistent identifiers, CHORUS will create a dashboard for ChemRxiv that connects preprints to funders and datasets as well as information related to public accessibility and other key metadata to be added later. The Preprint Dashboard will aid in discoverability of preprints with the potential to provide non-ambiguous links between the preprint and published research, researchers, and their funding….”

Coleridge Initiative – Show US the Data | Kaggle

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“This competition challenges data scientists to show how publicly funded data are used to serve science and society. Evidence through data is critical if government is to address the many threats facing society, including; pandemics, climate change, Alzheimer’s disease, child hunger, increasing food production, maintaining biodiversity, and addressing many other challenges. Yet much of the information about data necessary to inform evidence and science is locked inside publications.

Can natural language processing find the hidden-in-plain-sight data citations? Can machine learning find the link between the words used in research articles and the data referenced in the article?

Now is the time for data scientists to help restore trust in data and evidence. In the United States, federal agencies are now mandated to show how their data are being used. The new Foundations of Evidence-based Policymaking Act requires agencies to modernize their data management. New Presidential Executive Orders are pushing government agencies to make evidence-based decisions based on the best available data and science. And the government is working to respond in an open and transparent way.

This competition will build just such an open and transparent approach. …”

CHORUS Forum: Making the Future of Open Research Work – CHORUS

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“There are many ways that infrastructure players (like CHORUS) can support the scholarly communications community as stakeholders work together to advance innovation in open science. Publishers are introducing new models to make more content open access. How do they connect metadata about their customers, researchers, and articles to make these models work? What infrastructure is needed to make new models for open access a success for librarians as well as for publishers? What elements do funders, researchers, and institutions need to make the future of open research work?

This CHORUS Forum event will look at the complexities and commonalities of several new models for open research, and discuss how can we as a community build on the progress made so far in an interoperable and open ecosystem.

Our speakers and panelists are a diverse group of funders, institutions, researchers, and publishers, who will share their case studies and participate in panel discussions. There will be time for Q&A, so bring your questions and your ideas for collaboration as we address “Making the Future of Open Research Work”….”

CHORUS FORUM RECAP: New Connections: Research Data to Content – CHORUS

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“DataCite connects PIDs in standardized ways to maximize access to outputs via researcher repositories, institutions, or funders, for discovery and impact assessment. DataCite Commons, a web search interface for the metadata and PIDs associated with research publications and data (Crossref, DataCite), people (ORCID), and research organizations (RoR) was launched last year. DataCite maps these related identifiers in a PID Graph. By advancing and surfacing relationships (e.g., authorship, affiliation, reuse), the PID Graph helps follow the trail of research from dataset, to article, to institution, and so on. It thereby enables discovery through these connections, leverages usage and citations, and enables impact assessment.

With this infrastructure in place, additional metadata contributions will improve reuse and discovery. Adding rights information, for example, will help researchers and harvesters learn if they can reuse the data. Adding abstracts and other descriptive information will enable mining for emerging trends without singling out controlled vocabulary terms. Putting data citations in structured form makes them machine readable, which creates the potential for scaling up on a massive scale, through artificial intelligence (AI) applications….”

CHORUS now using GetFTR to support open research compliance for publicly funded research – CHORUS

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“CHORUS (chorusaccess.org), the non-profit membership organization, is now using Get Full Text Research (GetFTR) technology to speed up and enhance their open research audit process.

CHORUS is applying the GetFTR API to further automate the gathering and checking of key data on journal articles and conference proceedings from multiple publishers, supporting the organization’s mission of advancing sustainable, cost-effective public access to content reporting on research funded by public organizations. For GetFTR, this means its technology is being used in increasingly innovative ways to support the discovery of research….

The GetFTR service is now being used by six publishers and eight integrating partners, including CHORUS, Dimensions, Figshare, Mendeley, Papers and the Researcher app.”

CHORUS and DataCite sign MOU to advance linking and discoverability – CHORUS

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“CHORUS and DataCite have signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to coordinate efforts to adopt identifiers and standards to manage access to and reporting of research outputs.

Authoritative connections between researchers and their works, funding sources, and affiliations, are essential for delivering public access to scholarly content. As not-for-profit organizations engaged in supporting discoverability in scholarly communications, both DataCite and CHORUS have an important contribution to make creating and supporting these links.

The organizations commit to dialog and cooperation on the following topics:

Supporting simple and non-ambiguous links between datasets, researchers and their funding
Displaying links between CHORUS content and DataCite DOIs in the CHORUS dashboards and reports
Building awareness of DataCite services among funding agency researchers and administrators
Encouraging the use of persistent identifiers for researchers and organizations to support public access to research works …”

Recap of the CHORUS Forum on Open Access Policies and Compliance in a Global Context – CHORUS

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“Over 150 publishers (society, commercial, and university press), librarians, funders, service providers, university administrators, faculty, and researchers attended the virtual CHORUS Forum on Open Access Policies and Compliance in a Global Context on 30 July 2020. CHORUS Chairman Alix Vance (AIP Publishing CEO) kicked off the day by welcoming participants and introducing speakers.

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Here’s a summary of the program’s presentations:…”

Collaborating for public access to scholarly publications: A case study of the partnership between the US Department of Energy and CHORUS – Dylla – – Learned Publishing – Wiley Online Library

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“Key points

 

The success of the CHORUS and DOE relationship is the result of nearly two decades of interactions between the DOE and a group of scientific publishers.
The relationship between CHORUS and the US federal agencies required understanding of different motivations, operations, and philosophies.
Although achieving public access was simple in principle, it required considerable effort to develop systems that satisfied all parties.
Publishers had been working with federal agencies to achieve open access before the 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, but this helped to create a path for a more fruitful relationship….”

Collaborating for public access to scholarly publications: A case study of the partnership between the US Department of Energy and CHORUS – Dylla – – Learned Publishing – Wiley Online Library

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“Key points

 

The success of the CHORUS and DOE relationship is the result of nearly two decades of interactions between the DOE and a group of scientific publishers.
The relationship between CHORUS and the US federal agencies required understanding of different motivations, operations, and philosophies.
Although achieving public access was simple in principle, it required considerable effort to develop systems that satisfied all parties.
Publishers had been working with federal agencies to achieve open access before the 2013 White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, but this helped to create a path for a more fruitful relationship….”

How University of Denver Librarians used CHORUS Institution Dashboards in conjunction with their own internal data to help monitor public accessibility to the University’s publicly funded research

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“In his role as Dean of the University of Denver Libraries, Professor Levine-Clark had been grappling with a problem his librarian audience understood all too well — that monitoring public access to federally funded research had reached a critical point. By 2017, D.U.’s steadily growing research budget was approaching $30 million. Professor Levine-Clark knew that a considerable portion of this money came from various government agencies, representing a risk to future funding. He also knew that using the Library’s two and a half full-time developers to build and maintain a D.U. technical solution would take up too much of their valuable time….”