On April 16, 2025, the Rogue Scholar Advisory Board met for the third time since it started in January 2024. Since the last Advisory Board Meeting on October 24, Rogue Scholar has achieved several important milestones.

This week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started registering DOIs and metadata with Crossref using the InvenioRDM repository platform rather than relying on external tooling. InvenioRDM has of course supported DOI registration with DataCite for a long time, so this adds another option for repositories hosting reports, preprints, dissertations, or other textual documents.

This is the August 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 Three blogs were added in August, with a few more in progress, requiring additional work. Welcome everybody!

References are an important element of scholarly metadata, and that is also true for science blog posts. Currently 5.06% of all Rogue Scholar posts include at least one reference, which are then registered with Crossref metadata. Citations are the counterpart of references. When other scholarly works are cited in the references of a scholarly work, this citation information can be communicated to the cited work.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has supported ORCID and DOI identifiers for linking to authors and blog posts since its launch. Starting this week, these two identifiers can also be used to navigate within the Rogue Scholar archive.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has introduced authentication with passkeys and will disable local accounts on September 15. Reading Rogue Scholar content has always been free and never required user accounts or cookie permissions. This is true both for web and API usage.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive uses DOIs to uniquely identify blog posts with meaningful metadata. This enables tracking citations of scholar blog posts in the scholarly literature using traditional citation tracking methods rather than altmetrics. Initially launched as a Rogue Scholar service six months ago, citation tracking has launched to production this week.

This is the July 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 Thirteen blogs have been added in July, making it one of the busiest months yet for Rogue Scholar. Welcome everybody!

This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has received two important updates: full-text search becomes the default search configuration, and blog authors can now self-manage basic settings of their Rogue Scholar blog community. Full-text search as default Rogue Scholar has long supported full-text search of all its content.

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar relaunched today with a number of exciting new features, including major new software version, new hardware, new look and feed, and new authentication. Major new software version Version v13.0 of the InvenioRDM open source repository platform was released today.

Ten days ago, I reported on a new deployment strategy for the InvenioRDM repository software. Using the Kamal deployment tool, I deployed both a staging instance of the Rogue Scholar service and a demo instance of the InvenioRDM Starter package. Over the last few days I have updated both instances to the latest release candidate (v13.0.0rc3) of the next major InvenioRDM software version. The upgrade was fairly painless.