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Data dump from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a community-led registry of open identifiers for research organizations. Release v1.72 contains ROR IDs and metadata for 119,173 research…

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · 1d

A new version of the ROR registry has been released! 🎉 As always, new and modified records are immediately available in the ROR API, and the latest data can be downloaded from Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Read what's new in release v1.72. github.com/ror-communit...

ROR Data

Advancing open PID infrastructure at scale: A new face and exciting projects for the ROR technical team

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · 5d

[auto] New on the ROR blog: "Advancing open PID infrastructure at scale: A new face and exciting projects for the ROR technical team"

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.

Release v1.8.0 Paris · openlibhums/janeway

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Janeway @janewayolh.bsky.social · 8d

Janeway version 1.8 is available rolling out onto our hosted installations now. Checkout some of the awesome features including work on @researchorgs.bsky.social and CRediT by @joemull.bsky.social.

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Main Changes Typesetting plugin is now integrated into Janeway core and , as such, the typesetting plugin will be deprecated. Janeway now integrates with the Research Organization Registry for aut...

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · 16d

A new version of the ROR registry has been released! 🎉 As always, new and modified records are immediately available in the ROR API, and the latest data can be downloaded from Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Read what's new in release v1.71. github.com/ror-communit...

Research Organization Registry (ROR) upcoming and past events

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · 22d

In today's ROR Community Call, we'll hear about technical updates to ROR and will hear about ROR and publishing platform @atypon.bsky.social. There's still time to register! ror.org/events/#ror-...

Events

Research Organization Registry (ROR) upcoming and past events

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · 26d

The next ROR Community Call is Tuesday, September 16th. Register now to learn about ROR and @atypon.bsky.social as well as what's new with ROR. ror.org/events/#ror-...

Events

HighWire Press's DigiCorePro and ROR

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PID Network Deutschland @pidnetworkde.bsky.social · 28d

🚀 Last call - Join the final seminar of the PID Network Germany series!

📢 Topic: #PIDs for Projects & Organisations – building a sustainable, interoperable research ecosystem

🗓️ Sep 15, 2025 | 10:30 am CEST

#OpenScience #FAIR @datacite.org @dnb-aktuelles.bsky.social @researchorgs.bsky.social

PIDs for Organisations and Projects | Online |Sept 15, 2025 Start 10:30 CEST

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks to @highwirepress.bsky.social for participating in this interview about DigiCorePro!

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · 29d

[auto] New on the ROR blog: "HighWire Press's DigiCorePro and ROR" ror.org/blog/2025-09...

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...

3 reasons it’s valuable to include funder information with your preprint - openRxiv

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Sep 8

Favorite ROR IDs of the week: Basque Center for Applied Mathematics ror.org/03b21sh32; Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures ror.org/005hdgp31; and Basque Culinary Center ror.org/03ftn5w97

Edificio Basque Culinary Center en Donosti. Mondragon Unibertsitatea, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great news that @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social is now using ROR to make adding funding information to preprints easy!

openRxiv @openrxiv.bsky.social · Sep 4

Funding info in preprints isn’t just a formality. It’s part of the research record.

🔍 Builds trust through transparency
📑 Meets funder requirements
📈 Boosts discoverability & impact

bioRxiv now has an easy way to add standardized funder info at the time of submission.

openrxiv.org/funder-metad...

As preprints continue to reshape how we share scientific knowledge, we’re continuing to think about how we receive, share and acknowledge credit in our work. One important area for this is including f...

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Sep 3

"We have an in-house content validator, which uses ROR’s API to ensure we have ROR IDs for affiliations and funders." Read more about the excellent #metadata practices of @elife.bsky.social on the @crossref.bsky.social blog. doi.org/10.64000/3gc...

An eLife filled with possibility thanks to great metadata - Crossref

eLife recently won a Crossref Metadata Award for the completeness of its metadata, showing itself as the clear leader among our medium-sized members. In this post, the eLife team answers our…

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Sep 1

Favorite ROR IDs of the week: The Shakespeare Association of Korea ror.org/02j0x3x48, The Folger Shakepeare Library ror.org/0242qw425, and Shakespeare Behind Bars ror.org/014vs5452

Shakespeare, by William Blake, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

An eLife filled with possibility thanks to great metadata - Crossref

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 28

"We have an in-house content validator, which uses ROR’s API to ensure we have ROR IDs for affiliations and funders." Read more about the excellent #metadata practices of @elife.bsky.social on the @crossref.bsky.social blog. doi.org/10.64000/3gc...

eLife recently won a Crossref Metadata Award for the completeness of its metadata, showing itself as the clear leader among our medium-sized members. In this post, the eLife team answers our…

Crossref Annual Meeting and Board Election 2025 - Crossref

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 27

Share your #metadata story and submit an idea for a flash talk at the @crossref.bsky.social 25th anniversary annual meeting! Abstracts are due Sept 20th, meeting dates are October 22-23. #Crossref2025 www.crossref.org/crossref-ann...

#Crossref2025 online, 22-23 October 2025 Don’t miss Crossref Annual Meeting and Board Election this year! We invite all our members from 160+ countries—and everyone in our community—to join us for…

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 26

Want to know how ROR handles relationships between organizations? Read all about it in our technical documentation. ror.readme.io/docs/relatio...

ROR relationships and hierarchies

ROR records store organizational connections in the `relationships` field, allowing for the display of hierarchies and connections between organizations. The `relationships` element is an array,…

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 26

A new version of the ROR registry has been released! 🎉 As always, new and modified records are immediately available in the ROR API, and the latest data can be downloaded from Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zeno.... Read what's new in release v1.70. github.com/ror-communit...

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 25

Favorite ROR IDs of the week: National Library of Latvia ror.org/00mxv8r67, National Library of Vietnam ror.org/055bgss27, and National Library of Colombia ror.org/00s1xev78

Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. JuanGris (Lucía Estévez), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

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

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 22

Remember that version 1 of the ROR API and schema will be deprecated in December! Update your application or script now to use the stable, feature-rich, recommended version 2. doi.org/10.71938/y9p...

Version 2 of the ROR API will become the query default in July 2025, and version 1 of the ROR API and dataset will be deprecated entirely in December 2025.

Scaling for Impact: How NIFS and DataCite Are Advancing Global Discoverability of Japanese Research - DataCite

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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 21

Japan's National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) has registered more than 20 million DOIs with @DataCite.org in the past two years -- and just about every one of those DOIs has a ROR ID. Nice work! doi.org/10.5438/44ew...

The National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) is an inter-university research institute based in Japan. NIFS promotes academic collaborative research and also strives to meet the expectations of…

From storage closet to metadata champions: ASM's journey toward a smarter scholarly infrastructure - Crossref

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 18

Favorite ROR IDs of the week: Advanced Rotorcraft Technology (ART), Sunnyvale, US ror.org/04jp8cn27, Aston Reinvestment Trust (ART), Birmingham, UK ror.org/01nt99q97, and American Repertory Theater (ART), Cambridge, US ror.org/03ya6rh87

John Phelan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁 @researchorgs.bsky.social · Aug 13

The American Society for Microbiology does a great job providing #metadata to Crossref -- including ROR IDs! Read more on the Crossref blog at doi.org/10.64000/xxw...

The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has earned recognition in Crossref’s Participation Reports for its exceptional metadata coverage among large publishing members––an achievement built on…