Case Studies

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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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 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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Case Study: Next-Generation Publishing Platform Curvenote and ROR

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.

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Case Study: How and Why Optica Publishing Group Uses ROR

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.

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Using ROR for Funder Identification

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.

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Case Study: The Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative and ROR

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.

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Case Study: Clear Skies, Research Integrity, Data Science, and ROR

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

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Case Study: OpenAlex, ROR, and Machine Learning Models

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.

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Case Study: Why ResearchEquals Integrated ROR and Live Streamed It

Chris Hartgerink, the founder of Liberate Science, discusses why and how they integrated ROR into the modular publishing platform ResearchEquals for author affiliations in user profiles and Crossref DOIs and explains why they live streamed all eight hours of the work.

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