[nfais-l] Howard Ratner Joins CHORUS initiative

[jilloneill at nfais.org]

Howard Ratner, formerly with Nature, has moved to work on the CHORUS initiative. From the press announcement:
 
Howard Ratner, well-known in the scholarly publishing community for his leadership work in technical services and standards, serves as Director of Development for CHORUS in its start-up phase. Ratner is currently leading the proof of concept — a conceptual design framework — and pilot stages across all stakeholders.


CHORUS will offer a full suite of services for researchers, federal agencies, institutions, publishers and the public ensuring continued innovation in the delivery of scholarly communication.


Most recently CTO and Executive Vice President, Nature Publishing Group, he was instrumental in the founding of such not-for-profit joint ventures as the Digital Object Identifier; CrossRef, the collaborative reference linking service between the world’s scholarly publishing platforms; and CLOCKSS, the sustainable archive of web-based scholarly articles established by academic publishers and research libraries. Additionally, he co-founded and served as chair of ORCID, the open, community-based initiative providing a registry of researcher identifiers and a means to link research activities and outputs to these identifiers.
 
More at: [http://publishers.org/chorusleadership/] http://publishers.org/chorusleadership/
 
 
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