Cambridge University Press and ROR
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.
By John Lewis and Amanda French
October 22, 2025
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.
By Amanda French
September 9, 2025
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.
By Peyton Tvrdy and Amanda French
May 8, 2025
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.
By Amanda French
May 1, 2025
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.
By Amanda French
November 15, 2024
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.
By Amanda French
August 23, 2024
Optica Publishing Group was one of the earliest publishers to send ROR IDs to Crossref in DOI metadata. In this interview, we speak with them to learn more about their rigorous processes for cleaning organization names.
By Amanda French
August 6, 2024
Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funders. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs for funder identifiers.
By Amanda French
January 17, 2024
Professor Cameron Neylon of Curtin University talks telephones, power outlets, chat services, persistent identifier education, federated versus centralized curation, providing actionable information to universities, and why the COKI Open Access Dashboard relies on ROR.
By Amanda French
November 27, 2023
Adam Day, CEO of Clear Skies Ltd., discusses how he works to improve research integrity with tools like Papermill Alarm, why such tools can assist but can't replace human investigators, and what's so important for data scientists about free and open identifers like ROR
By Amanda French and Adam Buttrick
September 13, 2023
Justin Barrett, Lead Machine Learning Engineer for OpenAlex at OurResearch, talks with ROR Technical Community Manager Amanda French and ROR Curation Lead Adam Buttrick about using ROR in OpenAlex both as an identifier for institutions and as a dataset for training machine learning models.