Research Organization Registry (ROR)

ROR Now Available in Editorial Manager

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:31:28 -0400

We’re thrilled that Aries Systems has announced that its widely-used peer review and production tracking systems Editorial Manager® (EM) and ProduXion Manager® (PM) now support ROR IDs as funder identifiers!

A Demo of Our New ROR Search App Is Here! Try It and Share Your Feedback

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We’re excited to announce that a demo version of our new ROR search application is now open for public testing at https://demo.ror.org, and we need your feedback to help us get it over the finish line.

Three Tips for Requesting a New ROR ID

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:52:59 -0400

When you’re requesting a new ROR ID for an organization, here are the three most important things to do before you fill out the request form: 1) Search the registry to see whether the organization already has a ROR ID, 2) Make sure the organization is in scope for ROR, and 3) Collect links to research outputs such as journal articles or datasets that acknowledge the organization as an author affiliation, funder, or publisher.

Why I Request ROR IDs for New Crossref Members

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:37:53 -0400

Collin Knopp-Schwyn of Crossref (one of ROR’s governing organizations) shares how they began contributing to the ROR dataset and discusses the value of ROR users providing curation requests to the registry.

Strengthening ROR’s Commitment to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Since its founding, ROR has been committed to providing open infrastructure for the global community. As part of this commitment, in December 2020, ROR released a public self-assessment of our alignment with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI).

Enriching Europe PMC with SciLifeLab's ROR ID

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Europe PMC has long been at the forefront of ROR adoption. In their latest ROR-related project, they’ve used ROR in publication metadata to help their partner SciLifeLab, a major research facility and funder, make almost 17,000 linked research publications discoverable on Europe PMC. Read on to learn more about this important open metadata initiative.

From User Stories to High-Quality Data: Implementing ROR on the Janeway Platform

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Joe Muller, Senior Publishing Technologies Developer at the Open Library of Humanities, tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform uses ROR, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution with a ROR-powered search.

Highlights from the 2026 ROR Annual Community Meeting

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In the ROR Annual Community Meeting in February, we celebrated seven years of ROR and the ROR community that makes it all possible in three terrific online sessions featuring ROR team members and ROR enthusiasts from all over the world. If you missed any of the sessions, read the highlights and access slides and recordings below, and be sure set yourself a reminder to attend live next year in early 2027!

Dutch Research Council (NWO) and ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:32:15 -0500

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced recently that it has integrated ROR in its open API. Hans de Jonge, director of Open Science, tells us why and how NWO uses ROR in this latest installment of our case study series.

ROR in 2025: Year in Review

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:12:19 -0500

This time last year, when we reflected on ROR’s milestones in 2024, one of the major highlights was the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API. Now, as we think back on 2025, where we were a year ago makes a nice bookend to one of the major highlights of the current year: last week’s sunset of version 1 of the ROR schema and API. Developing and launching new products and services is both strategically important and satisfying, and we’ve certainly done that in 2025, but as any initiative matures, it also becomes essential to put away certain things, clearing the path to sustainable maintenance and renewed innovation.

How ROR IDs Help the EarthScope Consortium Track Organizational Partnerships

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the past few years, a great deal of attention has been paid to the importance of using ROR IDs to identify organizations that researchers are affiliated with. Less well-known, but equally important, is that organizations can also act as creators or contributors themselves, and these organizational creators and contributors can also be identified with ROR IDs, which is particularly useful for tracking organizational partnerships.

Announcing a New Affiliation Matching Strategy in the ROR API

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:27:10 -0500

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new matching strategy in the ROR API to help you match complex affiliation text strings to ROR IDs at scale.

Cambridge University Press and ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

John Lewis, Data Operations Manager at Cambridge University Press, tells us why and how Cambridge uses ROR in this latest installment of our case study series.

Journey of a Curation Request: What Happens When You Ask for an Update to ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever wondered exactly what happens once you request a new ROR record or suggest a change to an existing ROR record? In this blog post, we take you through all the steps involved in ROR’s open, community-driven process for making sure that the information in the Research Organization Registry is complete and accurate.

Advancing Open PID Infrastructure at Scale: A New Face and Exciting Projects for the ROR Technical Team

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:49:25 -0400

We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of the ROR pride: Joseph Rhoads joined the ROR team in September as our new Technical Lead.

HighWire Press's DigiCorePro and ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In this interview with HighWire Press’s Tony Alves, we learn that thanks to customer requests and a PID-aware development process, the publishing platform DigiCore Pro uses ROR in form lookups and automatic extraction processes for author affiliations, funder identification, peer reviewer affiliations, user disambiguation, and research integrity.

Symplectic Adds ROR Integration

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements. Symplectic Elements now synchronizes ROR data approximately every 30 days and harvests ROR-enriched data for funders and author affiliations from Crossref and Dimensions, meaning that research offices, librarians, and administrators can now better analyze author collaborations, detect funding trends, and conduct open access reporting.

Timeline for the Sunset of Version 1 of the ROR API and Schema

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

One of the highlights of 2024 for the ROR team and the ROR community was the release of version 2 of the ROR API and schema in April 2024. Before that milestone, we spent many months working together to develop an API and schema versioning policy: that policy states that “Plans to sunset a previous version will be announced at least 1 year prior to the planned sunset date.” We’ve been reminding the ROR community ever since the launch of v2 of the ROR API and schema that version 2 is the recommended, stable version and that v1 of the ROR API would be deprecated in 2025. Today, we’re sharing further details and more precise dates for the deprecation of version 1 of ROR so that ROR users have all the lead time they need to make any necessary changes.

ROR in the US Department of Transportation's Research Repository

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The ROSA P digital repository, operated by the US National Transportation Library – part of the US Department of Transportation – is one of the top ten providers of ROR IDs for publisher identification and ROR IDs for funder identification in DataCite DOI metadata. In this short case study, Peyton Tvrdy tells us why and how her team did such exemplary work in producing metadata for open transportation research funded or produced by USDOT.

Case Study: How ROR in OA.Report Helps HHMI Monitor Open Access Policy Compliance

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 01 May 2025 10:04:35 -0400

In this dual case study, we learn why the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) relies on OA.Report and why OA.Report relies on ROR to help HHMI track compliance with its open access policy.

Using ROR IDs in Place of Funder IDs

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:46:09 -0500

Crossref has announced today that its members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata. To learn more about using ROR IDs to identify funders, read ROR’s guide to the Open Funder Registry to ROR transition and ROR’s blog post on systems that are already using ROR for funder identification. Read the full text of the Crossref announcement below.

Today, we’re delighted to let you know that Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where you currently use Funder IDs in your metadata. Funder IDs remain available, but this change allows publishers, service providers, and funders to streamline workflows and introduce efficiencies by using a single open identifier for both researcher affiliations and funding organizations.

Highlights from the 2025 ROR Annual Community Meeting

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been six years since the initial launch of ROR, and our Annual Community Meeting has become a welcome tradition for the ROR community in every new year. It’s a chance for us to reflect on the past year, look ahead to the coming year, and express our gratitude for the diverse and growing community of research and information professionals who use and support ROR. Last year, more than 300 people registered for one of the ROR Annual Community Meeting sessions, and this year, that number grew to more than 500 registrants from 58 different countries, making this our most well-attended and most international Annual Community Meeting to date! If you weren’t one of those who registered or attended, here are some highlights.

Faster Affiliation Matching at Scale

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:14:38 -0500

OpenAlex has added a new metadata matching strategy co-developed by ROR and Crossref to its affiliation matching processes: ROR is also investigating the prospect of incorporating this new matching strategy into the ROR API in 2025.

Metadata Matching: Beyond Correctness

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:37:34 -0500

The fifth and final blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk outlines a set of pragmatic criteria for making decisions about metadata matching. Read all posts in the series on metadata matching.

In our previous entry in this series, we explained that thorough evaluation is key to understanding a matching strategy’s performance. While evaluation is what allows us to assess the correctness of matching, choosing the best matching strategy is, unfortunately, not as simple as selecting the one that yields the best matches. Instead, these decisions usually depend on weighing multiple factors based on your particular circumstances. This is true not only for metadata matching, but for many technical choices that require navigating trade-offs. In this blog post, the last one in the metadata matching series, we outline a subjective set of criteria we would recommend you consider when making decisions about matching.

Clarivate Integrates ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:49:54 -0500

We are pleased to announce that Web of Science Core Collection™ now includes Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers. Users of the Web of Science™ can search for publications associated with an institution by using a ROR ID, and ROR IDs are available in organization profiles. In addition, Web of Science API Expanded now also exposes ROR IDs in query responses, making it easier for automated tools to retrieve standardized organization information and analyze research by institution.

ROR in 2024: Year in Review

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:44:18 -0500

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on where ROR is now, and the answer is unmistakable: ROR is just about everywhere. We continue to be thrilled by the extent to which ROR is recognized as the obvious choice for identifying research and funding organizations, as evidenced by a wide range of new ROR integrations, by our extremely busy curation queue with over 8,000 requests this year to add new organizations and update existing ROR records, by the bustling traffic of 14 million monthly requests to the ROR API, by the fact that the number of downloads of our open dataset has nearly tripled in the past year, by the honor of being named a finalist for the 2024 ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award, and by continual additions of enthusiastic ROR supporters to our very active and engaged community.

Understanding RRID and ROR for Facilities

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:51:10 -0500

This blog post explores the difference between “core facilities” in RRID and “facilities” in ROR and provides guidance for those who run facilities on how to effectively use these identifiers.

Case Study: Next-Generation Publishing Platform Curvenote and ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use structured metadata to create fully connected and highly interactive publications and portfolios.

How Good Is Your Matching?

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 20:21:55 -0500

The fourth blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk explains how to measure the quality of different matching strategies with an evaluation dataset and metrics. Read all posts in the series on metadata matching.

In our previous blog post in this series, we explained why no metadata matching strategy can return perfect results. Thankfully, however, this does not mean that it’s impossible to know anything about the quality of matching. Indeed, we can (and should!) measure how close (or far) we are from achieving perfection with our matching. Read on to learn how this can be done!

Welcome Riley Marsh, Metadata Manager

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Riley Marsh joined the ROR team in August as our new Metadata Manager.

How Should ROR Handle API Client Identification?

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:19:41 -0400

We’re looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for managing ROR API client identification with ‘mailto’ parameters or API keys, and comments are open through October 4th, 2024. Which option would you prefer? Does either option present a significant barrier for your use of the ROR API? Let us know!

Since ROR’s launch in 2019, the ROR API has been provided at no cost and with no registration or credentials required. While requiring no registration or identification reduces barriers to entry, it makes managing the health and stability of the API challenging amid constant and growing use.

The Myth of Perfect Metadata Matching

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The third blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk discusses a few common myths about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders. Read all posts in the series on metadata matching.

In our previous installments of the blog series about matching (see part 1 and part 2), we explained what metadata matching is, why it is important and described its basic terminology. In this entry, we will discuss a few common beliefs about metadata matching that are often encountered when interacting with users, developers, integrators, and other stakeholders. Spoiler alert: we are calling them myths because these beliefs are not true! Read on to learn why.

Case Study: How and Why Optica Publishing Group Uses ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Optica Publishing Group was one of the earliest publishers to send ROR IDs to Crossref in DOI metadata. In this interview, we speak with them to learn more about their rigorous processes for cleaning organization names.

Using ROR for Funder Identification

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funding organizations. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs as funder identifiers.

Re-introducing Participation Reports to Encourage Best Practices in Open Metadata

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 11:32:47 -0400

Crossref, with the help of CWTS Leiden, has just released an exciting update to their participation reports, adding metrics for both affiliations in general and ROR IDs in particular. Now Crossref members can easily see how well they’re doing in providing open affiliation metadata. Read the full text of the Crossref announcement below.

We’ve just released an update to our participation report, which provides a view for our members into how they are each working towards best practices in open metadata. Prompted by some of the signatories and organizers of the Barcelona Declaration, which Crossref supports, and with the help of our friends at CWTS Leiden, we have fast-tracked the work to include an updated set of metadata best practices in participation reports for our members. The reports now give a more complete picture of each member’s activity.

American Physical Society Becomes Largest Society Publisher to Adopt ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The American Physical Society (APS) has become the largest society publisher to adopt ROR, incorporating it into their manuscript submission process and sending ROR IDs in author affiliation metadata to Crossref. “We’ve been eagerly supporting ROR since before it was ROR,” said APS Lead Data Analyst Arthur Smith. Read the whole announcement from APS below, then watch Arthur’s marvelous presentation about the APS integration from last week’s ROR Community Call.

American Physical Society Becomes Largest Society Publisher to Adopt Research Organization Registry Identifiers

The American Physical Society has adopted the Research Organization Registry identification system, assigning persistent identifiers to authors’ affiliations for every paper published in the Physical Review journals. The action comes as a response to challenges faced by the scientific community regarding metadata tracking.

ID Ideas: Adding New External Identifiers to ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We’re looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for criteria to include additional external identifiers in ROR records, and comments are open through August 16th. ROR records already include mappings to Crossref Funder IDs, Wikidata, ISNI, and GRID. What additional external IDs do you feel should be added? What criteria do you think other identifiers should meet in order to be added to ROR?

Now that we’ve released v2 of the ROR schema, we have the power to add external identifiers to ROR records in the external_ids field without making a major schema change – and since we have the power, we want to use it! We’re therefore issuing a request for feedback on the requirements we should set for including additional external organizational identifiers in ROR records.

The Anatomy of Metadata Matching

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The second blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk describes some basic matching-related terminology and the components of a matching process, then poses some typical product questions to consider when developing or integrating matching solutions. Read more about this important work here and in other posts in the matching series.

In our previous blog post about metadata matching, we discussed what it is and why we need it (tl;dr: to discover more relationships within the scholarly record). Here, we will describe some basic matching-related terminology and the components of a matching process. We will also pose some typical product questions to consider when developing or integrating matching solutions.

Change, Continuity, and New Positions on the ROR Team

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is fortunate to have a small but mighty team that strives every day to make ROR as good as it can be and to support the diverse needs of our global community.

Metadata Matching 101: What Is It and Why Do We Need It?

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick has been working with Crossref Head of Strategic Initiatives Dominika Tkaczyk to explore improvements in automatic metadata matching strategies that can result in better metadata for everyone. Read more about this important work here and in other posts in the matching series.

At Crossref and ROR, we develop and run processes that match metadata at scale, creating relationships between millions of entities in the scholarly record. Over the last few years, we’ve spent a lot of time diving into details about metadata matching strategies, evaluation, and integration. It is quite possibly our favourite thing to talk and write about! But sometimes it is good to step back and look at the problem from a wider perspective. In this blog, the first one in a series about metadata matching, we will cover the very basics of matching: what it is, how we do it, and why we devote so much effort to this problem.

Announcing Version 2 of the ROR Schema and API!

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Today, we are delighted to announce the launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API! This new version of our schema and API will serve as a rock-solid foundation for everything ROR users want to accomplish now and in the future.

Today marks a red-letter (teal-letter?) day for ROR: the official public launch of version 2 of the ROR schema and API! Version 2 of ROR, developed and beta-tested over many months with the generous input and help of the ROR community, is more streamlined and more powerful than version 1, including some restructuring that will make ROR data easier to manage and use and some new fields that ROR users have been asking for. Read on to find out more.

ROR's Fifth Anniversary: Highlights from the 2024 Annual Community Meeting

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Every year since 2019, we’ve celebrated ROR’s anniversary at the same time we hold our annual community meeting, updating everyone on what ROR has accomplished in the last year and expressing our gratitude for the help of the ROR community. This year, the 2024 annual meeting featured five online events: a general update and fifth anniversary celebration, a community showcase, a panel on funding metadata, and two informal (unrecorded) drop-in sessions.

Case Study: The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative and ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Professor Cameron Neylon of Curtin University talks telephones, power outlets, chat services, persistent identifier education, federated versus centralized curation, providing actionable information to universities, and why the COKI Open Access Dashboard relies on ROR.

ROR's Year in Review: 2023

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As we near the end of 2023, we are taking a moment to reflect on what has been another significant year for ROR. We are thrilled that ROR is widely recognized and trusted as the leading standard for organization identifiers. This recognition is reflected in the skyrocketing use of ROR’s API (which reached a high of 27 million requests per month), wide range of implementations across the research ecosystem, and non-stop activity in ROR’s curation pipeline (currently handling approximately 700 requests per month). This momentum signals the broad adoption of ROR as well as the unequivocal need for something like ROR to fill crucial gaps in the landscape and address critical use cases around the tracking of research outputs. Heading into 2024, we expect that this growth will continue and that even more use cases will continue to develop.

Case Study: Clear Skies, Research Integrity, Data Science, and ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Adam Day, CEO of Clear Skies Ltd., discusses how he works to improve research integrity with tools like Papermill Alarm, why such tools can assist but can’t replace human investigators, and what’s so important for data scientists about free and open identifers like ROR.

How ROR and the Open Funder Registry Overlap: A Closer Look at the Data

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This post was edited in July 2026 to remove references to the web version of the ROR / Funder Registry Overlap tool. The source code of the tool remains available.

Help Us Test v2 of the ROR API!

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

After nearly a year of planning and community input, we are thrilled to release a beta version of ROR’s first major schema and API update, which is open to the public for testing through October 16, 2023. Please visit our v2 beta test documentation for detailed information on what’s new and how to participate in the beta test.

Throughout 2022 and into 2023, ROR gathered community feedback about how to handle schema and API versioning and about what should be included in a new version of ROR’s metadata schema. Today, we are thrilled to release a beta version of ROR’s first major schema and API update. Version 2 of the ROR API and metadata schema is open to the public for testing through October 16, 2023. As a community-driven initiative, ROR relies on input from its stakeholders to ensure that new and updated features serve the needs of its wide array of users and use cases.

Case Study: OpenAlex, ROR, and Machine Learning Models

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Justin Barrett, Lead Machine Learning Engineer for OpenAlex at OurResearch, talks with ROR Technical Community Manager Amanda French and ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick about using ROR both as an identifier for institutions in OpenAlex and as a dataset for training machine learning models that enrich OpenAlex metadata.

Now Hiring: Metadata Curation Support Contractor

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is seeking a short-term curation support contractor as registry curation activities continue to expand. Please consider submitting an application and help spread the word to your networks!

Open Funder Registry to Transition to ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Crossref has announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry and merge it with ROR in order to make workflows more efficient for all concerned. ROR and Crossref are working closely together on this important initiative, and we’re happy to answer any questions that users of the Funder Registry may have. Read the full text of Crossref’s announcement below, and feel free to write info@ror.org, book a meeting with Amanda French, or attend a ROR event if you’d like to learn more.

Open Funder Registry to transition to the Research Organization Registry (ROR)

Today, we are announcing a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry. For some time, we have understood that there is significant overlap between the Funder Registry and the Research Organization Registry (ROR), and funders and publishers have been asking us whether they should use Funder IDs or ROR IDs to identify funders. It has therefore become clear that merging the two registries will make workflows more efficient and less confusing for all concerned. Crossref and ROR are therefore working together to ensure that Crossref members and funders can use ROR to simplify persistent identifier integrations, to register better metadata, and to help connect research outputs to research funders.

Case Study: Why ResearchEquals Integrated ROR and Live Streamed It

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Chris Hartgerink, the founder of Liberate Science, discusses why and how they integrated ROR into the modular publishing platform ResearchEquals for author affiliations in user profiles and Crossref DOIs and explains why they live streamed all eight hours of the work.

ROR as Community-supported Infrastructure

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

As we have crossed the mid-point of 2023, we’re taking a moment to reflect on what has already been a very busy year for ROR!

Case Study: How Europe PMC Uses ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Michael Parkin, data scientist at EMBL-EBI who helps maintain Europe PMC, explains why and how ROR helps with assessing funding impact and tracking researcher collaborations.

Case Study: ROR in DataSalon's MasterVision and PaperStack

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 10 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In January of 2022, DataSalon announced a full integration of ROR into its scholarly publishing analytics products MasterVision and PaperStack. DataSalon’s Client Services Director Andy Dobson sat down with us to tell us all about how they draw on fifteen years of data experience to match organizational affiliations in publisher data to ROR IDs.

PIDs and Open Science: Building Community in Latin America | PIDs y Ciencia Abierta: Construyendo comunidad en América Latina

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 09 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Cross-posted by DataCite and ORCID

Versión en español sigue abajo

Persistent identifiers are playing a key role in driving more robust research infrastructure and open science initiatives across Latin America. This was a primary theme at the event “Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) and Open Science in Latin America” (#PIDsLATAM23) held on April 18 in Buenos Aires (Argentina) during csv,conf,v7.

Case Study: ROR in Scholastica Products

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Scholastica, a journal publishing technology solutions provider, has incorporated ROR IDs into its Peer Review System, Production Service, and Open Access Publishing Platform. In this interview with Cory Schires, Scholastica co-founder and CTO, we discuss the two phases of ROR implementation, the pros and cons of displaying ROR IDs, what makes sense about ROR’s level of granularity, and the importance of reliable APIs.

Europe PMC Announces ROR Integration into Grant Finder

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Europe PMC, one of the largest providers of high-performance search tools for life sciences literature, has announced that its Grant Finder now incorporates Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs to help users find active and completed grants awarded by Europe PMC funders.

Case Study: ROR at Rockefeller University Press and Silverchair

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Rockefeller University Press has incorporated ROR into many aspects of their workflow, and their platform provider Silverchair was there to help. This case study is based on the presentation about this integration given at the December 2022 ROR Community Call by Rob O’Donnell, Senior Director of Publishing at RUP, and Emily Hazzard, Product Operations Analyst at Silverchair.

Parents, Children, and Other Relationships in ROR Records

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

One common question we receive about ROR registry records is whether they reflect organizational hierarchy and relationships between organizations – yes, they do! ROR does indeed support parent-child organizational hierarchies as well as other types of relationships between organizations. In this blog post, we go into more detail about how ROR supports relationships and hierarchies, how these are expressed in the metadata, how we curate them, and how users like you can explore and leverage this metadata.

Case Study: ROR in Caltech Repositories

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this case study we interview Tom Morrell, Research Data Specialist at Caltech Library and key contributor to the open source research data management system InvenioRDM, about Caltech’s early adoption of ROR IDs in their repository systems and why InvenioRDM is architected with ROR IDs for funders and author affiliations.

ROR Turns Four: Highlights from the 2023 Annual Community Meeting

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Four years ago, ROR was first introduced to the world at an open community meeting the day before PIDapalooza.

Since then, we have continued to celebrate ROR’s anniversary every year with a big public event to bring together the broad network of ROR users and supporters and reinforce ROR’s commitment to developing open, sustainable, community-driven infrastructure. (In previous blog posts, we’ve shared recaps of the 2020, 2021, and 2022 meetings.)

Case Study: ROR in FAIRsharing

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

In this installment of the ROR Case Studies series, we talk with Allyson Lister, Content and Community Lead for FAIRsharing, a cross-disciplinary registry of scientific standards, databases, and policies, about how and why FAIRsharing used ROR to help make organizations first-class citizens in their data model.

Joy Owango and Natasha Simons Join ROR Steering Group

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is excited to welcome two new members to its Steering Group this year: Joy Owango from the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) and Natasha Simons from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC).

ROR's Year in Review: 2022

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

2022 has been a momentous year for ROR! We experienced significant growth, reached critical milestones, and established a foundation for long-term sustainability. As the year comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on our activities and give thanks to our community for supporting us along the way.

Schema Scheming: Evolving the ROR Data Model

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We’ve run several calls for feedback in 2022, but here’s one you’ll definitely want to chime in on: our draft proposal of major changes to the ROR data model for schema version 2.0. Comments are open until February 5, 2023, and we hope to release version 2.0 of the ROR schema and API in late 2023.

When ROR diverged from GRID in March of 2022, it became possible for the first time to make changes to ROR’s data model. Our first priority was to handle inactive organizations and other organization status changes, and the community solution, as it turned out, didn’t involve any changes to the schema. We did the technical work to implement these organization status changes, and they were moved into production on December 1st, 2022. At the same time, knowing that both ROR’s data model and its API will need to change in the future, we asked for feedback on a proposal to handle schema and API versioning, and the ROR community agreed on a set of practices meant to make schema and API changes as painless as possible for ROR users.

Handling Organization Status Changes in ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

2022 was a big year for ROR in many ways, but it was especially notable from a tech standpoint. In early 2022, we built tools and processes that allowed ROR to begin curating the registry separately from GRID, which quickly opened possibilities for tackling projects that had been waiting on the back burner until ROR became fully independent.

Case Study: ROR in the COS Open Science Framework

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This conversation with Eric Olson of the Center for Open Science is the first in a new series of interviews, “Case Studies in ROR Integration,” a series designed to provide in-depth detail on why and how people are choosing to integrate ROR IDs into their systems.

SCOSS Selects ROR as Essential Open Infrastructure

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that ROR has been selected by SCOSS as essential open infrastructure and will be highlighted in the latest SCOSS campaign, which kicked off this week.

Strengthening ROR’s Sustainability Model

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Since its launch in 2019, ROR has been charting a unique path toward sustainability. In this blog post, we want to provide an update for the community on where this path is taking us.

What's in a Name? Handling Name Metadata in ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The ROR registry includes unique IDs and associated metadata records for 100,000+ research organizations. Each one of these organizations has at least one name. Some of them have multiple names (one even has 15)! Organization names in ROR appear in 120 different languages and counting.

Welcome Amanda French, Technical Community Manager

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Amanda French has joined ROR as our full-time Technical Community Manager.

ROR Welcomes Three New Steering Group Members

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is excited to welcome three new Steering Group members: Lautaro Matas, Kathleen Shearer, and Chris Shillum.

Inaugurated in late 2019, the ROR Steering Group is an advisory body that supports the registry’s strategic planning and decision-making activities. Steering group members provide feedback on ROR strategy and help drive awareness and adoption of ROR IDs through their respective networks and communities. The Steering Group comprises ROR’s operating organizations (California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite), who serve in a permanent capacity, as well as members representing external organizations, who serve rotating terms of 2-4 years.

ROR-ing On Our Own: Announcing Our First Independent Registry Update

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The ROR registry has grown!

We are excited to announce a new ROR registry release. With this update, the registry has grown to 102,559 records.

Let's Fund Open Infrastructure Together

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

ROR begins a new round of community fundraising

Since ROR launched in 2019, we have been charting a path to sustainability that leverages our broad community network and diversifies our funding sources. ROR is currently funded through a combination of in-kind support from its three operating organizations, project-based grant funds, and financial contributions from community members.

ROR Is Hiring a Technical Community Manager

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is hiring! We are looking for a full-time Technical Community Manager to expand the adoption and integration of ROR throughout the global scholarly communications ecosystem.

A New Year at ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The end of January 2022 marked the third anniversary of ROR’s launch at PIDapalooza 2019 in Dublin. Continuing with a tradition from the prior two years (2020 in Lisbon, and 2021 on Zoom), we marked the occasion with a community celebration to reflect on ROR’s progress and discuss the work that lies ahead.

Job Posting: ROR Technical Lead

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join as our Technical Lead, based at DataCite. You will be leading, developing, and architecting ROR services and infrastructure. ROR is a collaborative effort with resourcing from multiple organizations. The ROR Technical Lead will work on the ROR project according to priorities agreed with the ROR Operations Team, and will be part of the DataCite development team, and report to DataCite’s Engineering Director.

ORCID Integrates ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Add Research Institution Identifiers with ROR!

As part of our ongoing commitment to increase value to our researchers and our members, we are pleased to announce that the Research Organization Registry (ROR) has been added to the ORCID Registry as a disambiguated Organization ID. ROR can now be used with the API and our Affiliation Manager to record research institution identifiers and metadata, thus making it easier to track the impact of institutional research. ORCID’s own staff affiliations have now been updated to include a ROR ID!

Now Hiring: Metadata Curation Lead

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is looking for a data manager to lead metadata curation activities for the registry, including coordinating registry updates and maintenance, working with ROR’s community curation advisors, and developing and implement long-term curation policies and practices. This is an exciting time to join the ROR team and support ROR’s emerging independent, community-based curation model.

New ROR Update and Final GRID Sync

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In July, ROR and GRID announced that the two registries would begin to diverge in Q4 2021 following GRID’s final public release.

ROR Resources Roundup

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

ROR adoption is ramping up, and we’ve been hard at work during the past few months creating resources (or should we say ROR-sources?!) to support those of you integrating ROR into your systems. We’re excited to share the following new resources with you:

ROR and GRID: The Way Forward

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier today, GRID announced that it will discontinue its schedule of public releases in Q4 2021. This decision marks an important and exciting milestone in the evolution of both organization registries.

ROR’s 2020 Annual Report: A ROR-port on the Past Year and a Look to What’s Next

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is a specific type of identifier and a specific type of initiative that does not always fit neatly into pre-defined notions and categories. The registry’s focus on providing an open, noncommercial, and community-driven solution to the problem of identifying research organization affiliations sets it apart from similar types of organization identifiers. The collaborative nature of ROR’s approach also sets it apart from other types of identifier providers and infrastructure organizations.

ROR-ing Around the Clock at PIDapalooza21

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

In the same week that ROR celebrated its third birthday, PIDapalooza celebrated the fifth festival of persistent identifiers, also as a virtual event. Across three tracks, seven languages, and twenty-hour hours, PIDapalooza21 highlighted the latest updates from the wide world of persistent identifiers, with a focus how open infrastructure and rich metadata are key to harnessing the power of PIDs. As a prime example of open identifier infrastructure that is designed to enrich scholarly metadata, ROR featured prominently in many PIDapalooza21 sessions. Here are some highlights, with links to the recordings:

Unmute to ROAR! ROR's Third Annual (and First Virtual) Community Meeting

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

ROR had a birthday last week and marked the occasion just like anyone else celebrating a birthday during the pandemic: with a virtual party! More than eighty attendees from around the world came together for the now third annual ROR community meeting, held this year on Zoom across two sessions to reach ROR’s global community in as many timezones as possible.

Aligning ROR with the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The scholarly community depends on a network of open identifier and metadata infrastructure. Content identifiers and contributor identifiers are foundational components of this network. But an additional component has long been missing from this picture: open, stakeholder-governed infrastructure for research organization identifiers and their associated metadata.

The Path to ROR Adoption in Scholarly Publishing and Beyond

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

ROR offers an open and community-driven solution for tracking research outputs by institutions. ROR identifiers for research organizations are not meant to exist on their own. Their potential will be fully realized with wide adoption of ROR IDs in scholarly infrastructure and metadata.

What Does it Mean to Be in ROR?

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Some of the most frequent questions ROR receives are about what it means when an organization is in ROR, and how organizations end up in the registry in the first place. Many of you are understandably curious about how ROR records are added and updated. So, we thought this would be a good time to talk about how the registry is being maintained and how this process evolving.

What (and Who) Is the ROR Community?

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The Research Organization Registry is a cross-organizational and multi-stakeholder initiative. ROR is run by a small group of steering organizations in collaboration with a broad network of community advisors and supporters.

Sustaining and Strengthening ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 00:00:00 +0000

We’re more than halfway through 2020, and it has already been a year like no other. In the midst of global upheaval and uncertainty, work on the Research Organization Registry continues. Building and sustaining community and connections through open scholarly infrastructure seems more important than ever.

Early Adopters of Organization Identifiers in DataCite

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Version 4.3 of the DataCite Metadata Schema released during August, 2019 included (among other things), the capability to provide persistent identifiers for affiliated organizations in the metadata (Dasler and deSmaele, Identify your affiliation with Metadata Schema 4.3, 2019). This capability builds on the work and enthusiasm generated by the ROR Community that has championed the concept of open organization identifiers for several years (Gould, A Reflection on ROR’s First Year, 2019). This is a critical step towards consistent integration of organizations into the growing web of connections across the scholarly communications landscape and research communities in all disciplines.

ROR-ing Together in Portugal: A Community Celebration

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

ROR had a party in Portugal last month! Sixty friends - some new, some old - came together in Lisbon on the eve of PIDapalooza 2020 to celebrate ROR’s unofficial first birthday, marking one year since the registry debuted at a community meeting in Dublin in January 2019. This year’s gathering was a chance to review the milestones that ROR has passed in the last twelve months, highlight early implementations of ROR, and discuss the work that lies ahead for the next year and beyond with ROR’s active community.

A Reflection on ROR's First Year

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Flashback to one year ago, December 2018:

The ROR project team was putting the final pieces in place to launch the ROR MVR (minimum viable registry) in January. The ROR ID format was under discussion. A website was under construction. The purchase of the ror.org domain was being negotiated. We were getting ready to ROAR! But we weren’t sure at that time who else would be listening, and who might be ready to roar alongside us.

A Note of Thanks from ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0000

As we announced previously, ROR launched a fundraising campaign in October to ensure the registry’s long-term sustainability. We are grateful for the community supporters who have already contributed to this campaign. The first round of supporters was announced a couple of weeks ago. We are excited in this post to acknowledge the following additional contributors:

Untangling Affiliation Strings with the ROR API

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

ROR launched in January 2019 with records for nearly 100,000 research organizations, all with unique IDs and associated metadata. ROR data is useful for a variety of reasons and for a variety of users, including both humans and machines. It is essential for ROR to have robust mechanisms for searching, retrieving, and filtering.

Meet the ROR Steering Group

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is thrilled to announce that we are welcoming new members to the ROR Steering Group. The group now consists of the following members:

Pride in Community: ROR Fundraising Update

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 00:00:00 +0000

ROR launched a fundraising campaign in October to call on community stakeholders to pitch in toward supporting ROR’s long-term sustainability. While the overall goal of this campaign is to raise $175,000 from community supporters over the next two years, we set an initial target of $75,000 by the end of 2019. In our fourth full week of the campaign, we are excited to announce that we have so far raised $13,500 in contributions from six different supporting organizations. We are grateful to these early supporters for getting us started off on the right foot!

Help Build Open Infrastructure for Organization Identifiers: A Call to Support and Sustain ROR

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is the Research Organization Registry, a community-led project to develop an open, sustainable, usable, and unique identifier for every research organization in the world.

ROR-ing Together: Implementing Organization IDs in Dryad

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

How many datasets have been published in Dryad from researchers at the University of California? This question is surprisingly complicated. A short answer might be, we don’t know! A better answer could be, coming soon - stay tuned!

ROR Development Update: Building and Growing an Open Registry of Organizations

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

ROR is an open registry for every research organization in the world, aiming to solve the problem of identifying which organizations are affiliated with which research outputs. When the ROR MVR (minimum viable registry) launched in January, the registry included records for 91,000+ organizations, each with a unique ROR ID.

A ROR-ing Recap from PIDapalooza

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In the days following the ROR community meeting in Dublin, we had a chance to spread the word about ROR in presentations at PIDapalooza, the annual festival for persistent identifiers. Members of the ROR project team led an interactive session that included an affiliation-matching game to demonstrate the messiness of identifying and aligning metadata about an institution, and discuss how ROR IDs can address these challenges. The session culminated with participants looking up the ROR IDs for their own institutions and drawing them on their very own lion masks, reflecting the twin themes of uniqueness and community that are so central to ROR’s aims.

Hear us ROR! Announcing our First Prototype and Next Steps

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

What has hundreds of heads, 91,000 affiliations, and roars like a lion? If you guessed the Research Organization Registry community, you’d be absolutely right!

The ROR of the Crowd: Get Involved!

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year, the Org ID Working Group wrapped up their work. There was a lot of talk about governance, with options discussed for creating an entirely new independent organization; and/or having a looser group of stakeholders. After several months of discussion following the January stakeholder meeting in Girona, Spain, there was still no easy answer to the governance question. It’s especially tough when getting down to details like timelines, hosting, staffing, and of course, funding. Our organizations each had to question whether we are truly capable of taking a leading role and really commit, having the will and agility to implement the outcomes of the Working Group.

Org ID: A Recap and a Hint of Things to Come

support@ror.org (Research Organization Registry (ROR)) — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Over the past couple of years, a group of organizations with a shared purpose—California Digital Library, Crossref, DataCite, and ORCID—invested our time and energy into launching the Org ID initiative, with the goal of defining requirements for an open, community-led organization identifier registry. The goal of our initiative has been to offer a transparent, accessible process that builds a better system for all of our communities. As the working group chair, I wanted to provide an update on this initiative and let you know where our efforts are headed.