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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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 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.