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Research Organization Registry (ROR) 🦁
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ROR is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research organizations. 🦁 Run by @crossref.bsky.social, @datacite.org, & @caldiglib.bsky.social.

#metadata #PIDs #OpenScience #scholcomm

See also https://linktr.ee/researchorgs
Favorite ROR IDs of the week: Albuquerque Cat Clinic ror.org/020v2kg51, Charing Cross Cat Clinic ror.org/04mrnx789, and Clínica dos Gatos (Portugal) ror.org/01bma3e06
January 16, 2026 at 4:15 PM
With the help of the ROR community, ROR has very carefully worked out a robust method of storing both structural and temporal organizational relationships. Read more in ROR 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,…
ror.readme.io
January 13, 2026 at 7:58 PM
ROR is completely and perpetually free -- as in, it costs you nothing to use. Read more about ROR's "business" model to learn how this is made possible by @crossref.bsky.social, @datacite.org, and @caldiglib.bsky.social. ror.org/about/#busin...
About
The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a global, community-led registry of open persistent identifiers for research and funding organizations.
ror.org
January 12, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Favorite ROR IDs of the week: South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics (START) ror.org/01scs7915, Start International ror.org/03w481t07, and START Clinic ror.org/03m412394
January 9, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Registration is open for ROR Annual Community Meeting sessions! ror.org/events
Events
Research Organization Registry (ROR) upcoming and past events
ror.org
January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Ever wonder how ROR records for organizations are updated? Read about our metadata curation process in detail in this blog post by ROR Metadata Manager Riley Marsh. doi.org/10.71938/T12...
Journey of a Curation Request: What Happens When You Ask for an Update to ROR
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…
doi.org
January 7, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Register now for any or all of the upcoming ROR Annual Community Meeting sessions, February 3-5: ROR Community Update, How ROR Can Help Funders, and The Role of ROR in National Research Strategies ror.org/events
Events
Research Organization Registry (ROR) upcoming and past events
ror.org
January 1, 2026 at 2:45 PM
ROR had a banner year in 2025! Read about our collaborative curation projects with UNESCO and other organizations, our adoption by Symplectic Elements and other major systems, and lots more. doi.org/10.71938/xwf...
ROR in 2025: Year in Review
In 2025, ROR deprecated a schema version, launched a new affiliation matching strategy, worked with national and international groups on community metadata curation, supported new users of and use…
doi.org
December 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Did you know that ROR IDs are fully supported in JATS (Journal Article Tag Suite) XML? Here's some guidance on ROR and JATS: ror.readme.io/docs/jats
Add ROR IDs to JATS XML
This document explains how to include ROR IDs in JATS XML using the `<institution-id>` element, with examples provided in the JATS `<institution-id>` tag library documentation.
ror.readme.io
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Favorite ROR IDs of the week: National Observatory of Athens ror.org/03dtebk39, National Technical University of Athens ror.org/03cx6bg69, and The Archaeological Society at Athens ror.org/016tt0b65
December 29, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ROR had a wonderful 2025 that included many collaborative curation projects with forward-thinking national and international research organizations. Read our Year in Review post to learn more about ROR's 2025. doi.org/10.71938/xwf...
ROR in 2025: Year in Review
In 2025, ROR deprecated a schema version, launched a new affiliation matching strategy, worked with national and international groups on community metadata curation, supported new users of and use…
doi.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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To be truly effective funder metadata should be made openly accessible to all beyond the level of individual publications.

Blog post by @hldejonge.bsky.social Katharina Rieck and Zoé Ancion (co-chairs of the Barcelona Declaration working group on funding metadata)

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency - Impact of Social Sciences
Funder metadata is vital to understanding where research comes from & how it is used. But, to be truly effective it needs to be open to all.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
With the recent sunset of version 1 of the ROR schema, the 75th update to our free and open dataset is designated "2.0" instead of "1.75," since it no longer contains v1 files. Explore the most recent release of the ROR registry on Zenodo or browse through previous releases. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
December 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The latest version of the ROR registry has been released, and it's release 2.0. 🎉 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 v2.0. github.com/ror-communit...
ROR Data
Data dump from the Research Organization Registry (ROR), a community-led registry of open identifiers for research organizations. Release v2.0 contains ROR IDs and metadata for 120,445 research…
doi.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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🛠️ Are you supporting or using OJS, OMP, or OPS for #ScholarlyPublishing, and curious about developments? Come join us to learn what we're working on!

Monday December 15th, 8 AM PST, online, free and open: pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/24/d...

#OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems
PKP Development News Update Webinar: December 15 2025 - Public Knowledge Project
You are invited to join PKP's free and open Development News Update Webinar on Monday December 15th, 8 AM PST.
pkp.sfu.ca
December 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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🛑 Researchers often use a personal email for submissions so they can stay contactable.

✅ What's best is to add an institutional email your ORCID record so publications + funders collecting authenticated iDs in their processes can use the #TrustMarker assoc. w/ the institutional domain.

Learn more
support.orcid.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
[auto] New on the ROR blog: "How ROR IDs Help the EarthScope Consortium Track Organizational Partnerships" ror.org/blog/2025-12...
How ROR IDs Help the EarthScope Consortium Track Organizational Partnerships
Learn how ROR IDs can help track organizational partnerships in this deep dive into work that Metadata Game Changers did with the EarthScope Consortium to add identifiers to DataCite DOI metadata for...
ror.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Did you know that you can download and explore the entire ROR registry as a free, open, CC0 dataset? You can also retrieve it programmatically from Zenodo. Read more about the ROR data dump in our documentation. ror.readme.io/docs/data-dump
ROR data dump
The ROR registry dataset is available on Zenodo in JSON and CSV formats, with new versions released monthly. The data dump includes all ROR IDs and metadata under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0…
ror.readme.io
December 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Today, version 1 of the ROR API and schema has been sunset. Read more about this major milestone on our changelog. ror.readme.io/changelog/20...
2025-12-04 Version 1 of the ROR API and schema is sunsetting
During the week of December 8, v1 of the ROR schema and v1 of the ROR API will be turned off and will remain permanently deprecated. This means: Queries to the ROR API that include v1 in the path…
ror.readme.io
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This week, version 1 of the ROR API and schema will be permanently deprecated. Read more on our changelog. ror.readme.io/changelog/20...
2025-12-04 Version 1 of the ROR API and schema is sunsetting
During the week of December 8, v1 of the ROR schema and v1 of the ROR API will be turned off and will remain permanently deprecated. This means: Queries to the ROR API that include v1 in the path…
ror.readme.io
December 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In case you missed it: read all about the launch of the affiliation matching strategy in the ROR API that helps you match complex text affiliation strings to ROR IDs. doi.org/10.71938/zz9...
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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We are looking for a Communications Manager to help lead Crossref's global communications and community engagement. Remote and full-time, with flexibility. Applications close December 9, 2025. https://www.crossref.org/jobs/2025-11-13-communications-manager/
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Join our webinar to learn how to assess your #metadata using the Crossref Participation Reports tool. Registration is now open. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/6117639379839/WN_z3Ia6l-KT02UvhqF_veIKg
December 3, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Together w/ @scielo.org, we will hold our next Metadata Sprint in São Paulo. Bringing together participants ready to explore ideas & solutions using open scholarly #metadata. https://www.crossref.org/events/metadata-sprint/?mtm_campaign=metadata%20sprint%20Sao%20Paulo&mtm_source=BS&mtm_medium=social
December 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM