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Book and Periodical PublishingNew York, United States11-50 Employees
CHORUS is a non-profit initiative under CHOR, Inc., a charitable membership organization based in Staten Island, New York. It operates within the book and periodical publishing sector, focusing on increasing public access to journal articles that report on funded research, while aligning with various public-access policies and license terms. Its approach emphasizes broad, open technology and a distributed-access model that links search results to the original article publication site, reducing duplication of effort and maintaining context for users. The organization seeks to support collaboration among publishers, funders, service providers, researchers, and other stakeholders without taking positions on policy debates. CHORUS positions itself as a unifying framework intended to benefit the scholarly communications community by enabling sustainable, cost-effective access to research literature. A recent development noted is CHORUS’s ongoing work related to traitor tracing systems, announced in late 2023, reflecting activity in protecting content distribution within its ecosystem.