From
The Chronicle of Higher Education:
As federal agencies scramble to meet an August 22 deadline to comply with a recent White House directive to expand public access to research, a group of university and library organizations says it has a workable, higher-education-driven solution.This week, the Association of American Universities, the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, and the Association of Research Libraries are offering a plan they call the Shared Access Research Ecosystem, or Share.
Share would expand on systems that universities and libraries have long been building to support the sharing and preservation of research. The groups behind Share have been circulating a document, dated June 7, that lays out the basics behind the idea.
Academic institutions have invested heavily in “the infrastructure, tools, and services necessary to provide effective and efficient access to their research and scholarship,” the document says. “Share envisions that universities will collaborate with the federal government and others to host cross-institutional digital repositories of public-access research publications.”
In the meantime, a group of publishers have proposed a
public private partnership plan of their own:
A group of scholarly publishers is proposing a publisher-run partnership to make it easier for agencies and researchers to comply with the federal government’s new open-access policy.
Called Chorus—the Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States—the partnership would use publishers’ existing infrastructure to identify and provide free access to peer-reviewed articles based on publicly supported research. The proposal comes as an August deadline looms for federal agencies to comply with the new policy.
Kevin Smith
examines the two proposals and finds fault with CHORUS:
First, I
think CHORUS is being touted, at least in what I have read, by
comparing it to a straw man. Its principle virtue seems to be that it
would not cost the government as much as setting up lots of
government-run repositories, clones of PubMed Central. But it is not
clear that that option is being seriously suggested by anyone.
Certainly many of us encouraged the agencies to look at the benefits of
PMC for inspiration and not sacrifice those benefits in their own plans,
but that does not mean that each agency must “reinvent the wheel,” no
matter how successful that wheel has been. So the principle virtue of
CHORUS seems to be that it does not do what no one is suggesting be
done.
The most important thing to understand about CHORUS is that it is a
dark archive. The research papers in CHORUS would not be directly
accessible to anyone; they would be “illuminated” only if a “trigger
event” occurred. Routine access would, instead, be provided on the
proprietary platforms of each publisher, while the CHORUS site would
simply collect metadata about the openly-accessible articles and point
researchers to the specific publisher platforms.
- See more at: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/06/10/better-than-joining-the-chorus/#sthash.ERNFc2Jl.dpuf
First, I
think CHORUS is being touted, at least in what I have read, by
comparing it to a straw man. Its principle virtue seems to be that it
would not cost the government as much as setting up lots of
government-run repositories, clones of PubMed Central. But it is not
clear that that option is being seriously suggested by anyone.
Certainly many of us encouraged the agencies to look at the benefits of
PMC for inspiration and not sacrifice those benefits in their own plans,
but that does not mean that each agency must “reinvent the wheel,” no
matter how successful that wheel has been. So the principle virtue of
CHORUS seems to be that it does not do what no one is suggesting be
done.
The most important thing to understand about CHORUS is that it is a
dark archive. The research papers in CHORUS would not be directly
accessible to anyone; they would be “illuminated” only if a “trigger
event” occurred. Routine access would, instead, be provided on the
proprietary platforms of each publisher, while the CHORUS site would
simply collect metadata about the openly-accessible articles and point
researchers to the specific publisher platforms.
- See more at: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/06/10/better-than-joining-the-chorus/#sthash.h5ouYCOV.dpuf
First, I think CHORUS is being touted, at least in what I have read, by comparing it to a straw man. Its principle virtue seems to be that it would not cost the government as much as setting up lots of government-run repositories, clones of PubMed Central. But it is not clear that that option is being seriously suggested by anyone. Certainly many of us encouraged the agencies to look at the benefits of PMC for inspiration and not sacrifice those benefits in their own plans, but that does not mean that each agency must “reinvent the wheel,” no matter how successful that wheel has been. So the principle virtue of CHORUS seems to be that it does not do what no one is suggesting be done.
The most important thing to understand about CHORUS is that it is a dark archive. The research papers in CHORUS would not be directly accessible to anyone; they would be “illuminated” only if a “trigger event” occurred. Routine access would, instead, be provided on the proprietary platforms of each publisher, while the CHORUS site would simply collect metadata about the openly-accessible articles and point researchers to the specific publisher platforms.
First, I
think CHORUS is being touted, at least in what I have read, by
comparing it to a straw man. Its principle virtue seems to be that it
would not cost the government as much as setting up lots of
government-run repositories, clones of PubMed Central. But it is not
clear that that option is being seriously suggested by anyone.
Certainly many of us encouraged the agencies to look at the benefits of
PMC for inspiration and not sacrifice those benefits in their own plans,
but that does not mean that each agency must “reinvent the wheel,” no
matter how successful that wheel has been. So the principle virtue of
CHORUS seems to be that it does not do what no one is suggesting be
done.
The most important thing to understand about CHORUS is that it is a
dark archive. The research papers in CHORUS would not be directly
accessible to anyone; they would be “illuminated” only if a “trigger
event” occurred. Routine access would, instead, be provided on the
proprietary platforms of each publisher, while the CHORUS site would
simply collect metadata about the openly-accessible articles and point
researchers to the specific publisher platforms.
- See more at: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/06/10/better-than-joining-the-chorus/#sthash.ERNFc2Jl.dpuf
First, I
think CHORUS is being touted, at least in what I have read, by
comparing it to a straw man. Its principle virtue seems to be that it
would not cost the government as much as setting up lots of
government-run repositories, clones of PubMed Central. But it is not
clear that that option is being seriously suggested by anyone.
Certainly many of us encouraged the agencies to look at the benefits of
PMC for inspiration and not sacrifice those benefits in their own plans,
but that does not mean that each agency must “reinvent the wheel,” no
matter how successful that wheel has been. So the principle virtue of
CHORUS seems to be that it does not do what no one is suggesting be
done.
The most important thing to understand about CHORUS is that it is a
dark archive. The research papers in CHORUS would not be directly
accessible to anyone; they would be “illuminated” only if a “trigger
event” occurred. Routine access would, instead, be provided on the
proprietary platforms of each publisher, while the CHORUS site would
simply collect metadata about the openly-accessible articles and point
researchers to the specific publisher platforms.
- See more at: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/06/10/better-than-joining-the-chorus/#sthash.siJhUCGr.dpuf
First, I
think CHORUS is being touted, at least in what I have read, by
comparing it to a straw man. Its principle virtue seems to be that it
would not cost the government as much as setting up lots of
government-run repositories, clones of PubMed Central. But it is not
clear that that option is being seriously suggested by anyone.
Certainly many of us encouraged the agencies to look at the benefits of
PMC for inspiration and not sacrifice those benefits in their own plans,
but that does not mean that each agency must “reinvent the wheel,” no
matter how successful that wheel has been. So the principle virtue of
CHORUS seems to be that it does not do what no one is suggesting be
done.
The most important thing to understand about CHORUS is that it is a
dark archive. The research papers in CHORUS would not be directly
accessible to anyone; they would be “illuminated” only if a “trigger
event” occurred. Routine access would, instead, be provided on the
proprietary platforms of each publisher, while the CHORUS site would
simply collect metadata about the openly-accessible articles and point
researchers to the specific publisher platforms.
- See more at: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/scholcomm/2013/06/10/better-than-joining-the-chorus/#sthash.siJhUCGr.dpuf
