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.

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.

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.

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

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 ROR registry is complete and accurate.

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.

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.

Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements.

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.

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.

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