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.
By Patricia Feeney
March 5, 2025
Crossref members can now use ROR IDs to identify funders in any place where they currently use Funder IDs in their metadata.
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 Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
June 27, 2024
The second blog post about metadata matching by ROR's Adam Buttrick and Crossref's Dominika Tkaczyk describes some basic matching-related terminology and the components of a matching process, then poses some typical product questions to consider when developing or integrating matching solutions.
By Dominika Tkaczyk and Adam Buttrick
May 16, 2024
In this blog, the first one in a series about metadata matching, we will cover the very basics of matching: what it is, how we do it, and why we devote so much effort to this problem.
By Amanda French and Adam Buttrick
October 12, 2023
ROR is ready to take on the important work that the Open Funder Registry has been doing: identifying research funders in a clean, consistent, comprehensive, and interoperable way. This post compares both registries and provides data showing that most of the Open Funder Registry records that see the most use already have equivalent records in ROR.
By Amanda French, Ginny Hendricks, Rachael Lammey, Fabienne Michaud and Maria Gould
September 7, 2023
Crossref has announced a long-term plan to deprecate the Open Funder Registry and merge it with ROR in order to make workflows more efficient for all concerned. ROR and Crossref are working closely together on this important initiative.
By Amanda French
March 28, 2023
Europe PMC, one of the largest providers of high-performance search tools for life sciences literature, has announced that its Grant Finder now incorporates Research Organization Registry (ROR) IDs to help users find active and completed grants awarded by Europe PMC funders.