Why I Request ROR IDs for New Crossref Members
Collin Knopp-Schwyn of Crossref shares how they began contributing to the ROR dataset and discusses the value of ROR users providing curation requests to the registry.
By Collin Knopp-Schwyn
May 28, 2026
Collin Knopp-Schwyn of Crossref shares how they began contributing to the ROR dataset and discusses the value of ROR users providing curation requests to the registry.
By Melissa Harrison
March 23, 2026
Europe PMC has long been at the forefront of ROR adoption. In their latest ROR-related project, they've used ROR in publication metadata to help their partner SciLifeLab, a major research facility and funder, make almost 17,000 linked research publications discoverable on Europe PMC. Read on to learn more about this important open metadata initiative.
By Joseph Muller
March 17, 2026
Joe Muller of the Open Library of Humanities tells us in this case study how and why the Janeway platform took the time to integrate ROR in a way that reduces the burden of data entry for authors, ensuring unambiguous author affiliations by retrieving ROR IDs from ORCID profiles as well as allowing authors to find their institution with a ROR-powered search.
By Hans de Jonge
February 11, 2026
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) announced recently that it has integrated ROR in its open API. Hans de Jonge, director of Open Science, tells us why and how NWO uses ROR in this latest installment of our case study series.
By Ted Habermann and Jim Riley
December 12, 2025
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 geophysical datasets.
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.