In the Dark

This is a copy of a blog post I put up in the Open Journal of Astrophysics website at the weekend.

The Research Organization Registry (ROR) is a community-led database that aims to provide a persistent identifier for every research organization in the world. In other words, it aims to do for institutions what ORCID does for individual researchers.

Scholastica has recently introduced a facility to allow authors to include an ROR tag for authors when they submit a paper. We encourage authors of papers submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics to do this. Institutions and organizations may require this in due course, as some do with ORCID, so it would be good to get into practice!

For example the ROR entry for NUI Maynooth is:

https://ror.org/048nfjm95

You can find your institutions ROR identifier here.

Not all corresponding authors of papers to OJAp supply details of institutional affiliations when they submit papers to us., presumably because it takes a while enter the relevant data. We can only supply the metadata to Crossref that authors supply to us. The more authors include the better, of course, but the ROR tag supplies a unique persistent identifier that is sufficient to pinpoint the relevant organization, so it is undoubtedly useful. Obviously, however, we can only pass this information on if authors supply it to us.

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