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.

OpenAlex has added a new metadata matching strategy co-developed by ROR and Crossref to its affiliation matching processes: ROR is also investigating the prospect of incorporating this new matching strategy into the ROR API in 2025.

The fifth and final blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk outlines a set of pragmatic criteria for making decisions about metadata matching.

We are pleased to announce that Web of Science Core Collection™ now includes Research Organization Registry (ROR) identifiers. Users of the Web of Science™ can search for publications associated with an institution by using a ROR ID, and ROR IDs are available in organization profiles.

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on where ROR is now, and the answer is unmistakable: ROR is just about everywhere.

This blog post explores the difference between 'core facilities' in RRID and 'facilities' in ROR and provides guidance for those who run facilities on how to effectively use these identifiers.

In this interview with Curvenote cofounder Rowan Cockett, we envision a world in which an authoring and publication platform helps scientists collaborate earlier, publish faster, and easily use structured metadata to create fully connected and highly interactive publications and portfolios.

The fourth blog post about metadata matching by ROR’s Adam Buttrick and Crossref’s Dominika Tkaczyk explains how to measure the quality of different matching strategies with an evaluation dataset and metrics.

We are thrilled to introduce a new member of the ROR pride: Riley Marsh joined the ROR team in August as our new Metadata Manager.

We're looking for your feedback on a draft proposal for managing ROR API client identification with 'mailto' parameters or API keys, and comments are open through October 4th, 2024.