Starting this week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance at https://auth.front-matter.de.
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar is becoming a German non-profit membership organization in 2026. This will help with the governance and sustainability of Rogue Scholar. But what can be the incentives to become a Rogue Scholar member, and under what conditions?
This is the November issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Two blogs were added in November. Welcome!
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
Yesterday I renamed the Front Matter blog to blog.front-matter.de, i.e. changing the top-level domain from .io to .de. I did this for two reasons: * The internet country code top-level domain .io has a complicated history, and I wanted to migrate away from it for some time.
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar started the process of becoming a German non-profit organization in 2026. This blog post summarizes the reasoning and the main steps needed to achieve this. Two weeks ago, I published a self-assessment of how Rogue Scholar adheres to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). Major gaps were identified in the areas of governance and sustainability.
This is the October issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Ten blogs were added in September. Welcome! More blogs are on the waitlist and will be added soon.
This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has launched a new feature: contributor roles. Blog posts can now have contributor roles attached to each author, and this information is shown in the Rogue Scholar and Crossref metadata. We have discussed contributor roles for blog posts for several months, in particular with the rOpenSci team.
With this blog post, the science blog archive Rogue Scholar starts the formal process to adhere to the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI). To do so, an organization has to perform a self-audit of its compliance with the principles, with a focus on principles and not hard rules. POSI was updated to version 2.0 this October, with the changes marked up in a separate document.
This is the September issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar One blog was added in September. Welcome!