Authors : H. Frederick Dylla, Jeffrey Salmon
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.