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Collaborating for public access to scholarly publications: A case study of the partnership between the US Department of Energy and CHORUS
Author(s) -
Dylla H. Frederick,
Salmon Jeffrey
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1298
Subject(s) - chorus , general partnership , public relations , white (mutation) , political science , business , law , art , biochemistry , chemistry , literature , gene
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.