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.

Crossref has announced today that its members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata. To learn more about using ROR IDs to identify funders, read ROR’s guide to the Open Funder Registry to ROR transition and ROR’s blog post on systems that are already using ROR for funder identification. Read the full text of the Crossref announcement below.

It’s been six years since the initial launch of ROR, and our Annual Community Meeting has become a welcome tradition for the ROR community in every new year. It’s a chance for us to reflect on the past year, look ahead to the coming year, and express our gratitude for the diverse and growing community of research and information professionals who use and support ROR.