Community values
ROR is community-supported, community-driven, community-funded open infrastructure.
The community-based aspect of ROR sets it apart from similar efforts in this space. With adoption and involvement across the scholarly research community, we ensure the long-term sustainability of open infrastructure for research organization identifiers.
ROR is governed, operated, and financially supported by California Digital Library, Crossref, and DataCite – three trusted organizations that each have deep expertise in developing open, sustainable, community-driven infrastructure for scholarly communications. ROR’s three governing organizations share collective responsibility for operating ROR and commit in-kind support to cover ROR’s core personnel and operating expenses.
The wider ROR community includes users and stakeholders from around the world and across many types of institutions and industries, including publishers, libraries, platform providers, university research offices, data repositories, CRIS systems, government agencies, funders, and more.
Community groups
Community Forum
The ROR Community Forum is the primary way to get involved in ROR. Join the ROR Community Forum to receive announcements and event invitations from ROR, engage with other ROR users, and give feedback on ROR’s current projects and future direction.
Technical Forum
The ROR Technical Forum is for developers who would like to receive announcements of new data releases and technical changes to ROR and would like to discuss technical topics with other developers using ROR.
Curation Advisory Board
The ROR Curation Advisory Board reviews suggested updates to the registry and advises on curation practices and standards.
Steering Group
The ROR Steering Group is a small advisory body composed of the ROR Operations Team plus external members who are key stakeholders in the global scholarly communication ecosystem. The ROR Steering Group was initiated in November 2019 to provide input on ROR priorities and strategy. Steering Group activities are guided by a terms of reference document.
- Matt Buys, DataCite (permanent member)
- John Chodacki, California Digital Library (CDL) (permanent member)
- Lautaro Matas, LA Referencia
- Ritsuko Nakajima, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
- Joy Owango, Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa)
- Ed Pentz, Crossref (permanent member)
- Judy Ruttenberg, Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
- Kathleen Shearer, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
- Chris Shillum, ORCID
- Natasha Simons, Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Who’s using ROR
Many scholarly communication systems are already using ROR, and many others are working on integrating ROR. Listed below are the latest known ROR adopters – if your system’s integration of ROR does not appear on the list, please let us know.
Case Studies
To learn more about why organizations and systems are deciding to use ROR and how they approached the work of integrating ROR, read in-depth interviews with ROR adopters in the Case Studies series on our blog.
Why ROR?
Looking for a short document to help you or others at your organization understand why you should adopt ROR? Read and share one or more of the below PDF documents from the ROR Community Materials collection.
- Why ROR? (1 page)
- ROR Fact Sheet (1 page)
- ROR for Publishers (4 pages)
- ROR for Repositories (13 pages)
Events
ROR-organized events include open bi-monthly Community Calls, Annual Meetings, open hours, webinars, and more that anyone can register for. ROR team members also frequently present at conferences and webinars organized by other groups. All ROR-organized events are always free.
- See our events page to sign up for upcoming events and access materials from past events
- Read recaps of past events on our blog
We are also happy to schedule free custom webinars and tutorials for your team: write community@ror.org with inquiries.
Supporters
ROR receives ongoing financial support from stakeholder organizations. The ROR supporters program strengthens community investment and helps to offset operating costs and fund time-limited projects.
Get involved
Join the ROR community
Are you using or thinking of using ROR? Would you like to know about what ROR’s up to, receive event invitations and announcements, give ROR feedback, and talk to other ROR users? Then join the ROR Community Forum.
You can also join the ROR Technical Forum if you are a developer who would like to receive announcements of new data releases and technical changes to ROR and would like to discuss technical topics with other developers using ROR.
Follow ROR
Stay up-to-date on the latest ROR news and opportunities for feedback and involvement:
Sign up for the ROR quarterly newsletter
Follow ROR on LinkedIn
Follow ROR on Mastodon
Follow ROR on BlueSky
Follow ROR on YouTube
Follow ROR on GitHub
Read the ROR blog
Suggest changes to ROR
Anyone can suggest changes or additions to the records in the ROR registry via the ROR request form. Use this form to request a new organization or to request changes to an existing record. Changes are reviewed and if approved will usually appear in the registry within 4-6 weeks.
To report a bug or request a feature in the ROR API or other tools, create an issue on the ROR roadmap on Github.
If you spot an error in our documentation, use the “Suggest Edits” button in the top right to let us know.
Code of conduct
At ROR, we want all community interactions to be welcoming, collegial, safe, and productive for everyone involved. To that end, we have adopted a Code of Conduct that frames our expectations for community interactions in all ROR-managed spaces.