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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 open, community-driven process for making sure that the information in the ROR registry is complete and accurate.

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Team Updates

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.

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Case Studies

HighWire Press's DigiCorePro and ROR

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.

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Adoption News

Symplectic Adds ROR Integration

Exciting news: Symplectic, a global leader in research information management systems, has integrated ROR into its flagship platform, Symplectic Elements.

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Technical News

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

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.

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Case Studies

ROR in the US Department of Transportation's Research Repository

Peyton Tvrdy of the US National Transportation Library tells us why and how her team did such exemplary work in producing metadata for Rosa P, a national digital repository for open transportation research.

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Case Studies

Case Study: How ROR in OA.Report Helps HHMI Monitor Open Access Policy Compliance

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.

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Adoption News

Using ROR IDs in Place of Funder IDs

Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata.

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Event Recaps

Highlights from the 2025 ROR Annual Community Meeting

Highlights of the 2025 ROR annual meeting sessions, including the Community Update, the panel on National PID Policies and Practices, and the session on Successes and Opportunities for ROR in the Asia-Pacific Region.

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Adoption News

Faster Affiliation Matching at Scale

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.

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