Maria Gould
Product Manager, Research Data Specialist
California Digital Library
John Chodacki
Director, University of California Curation Center (UC3)
California Digital Library
Institutions with open access (OA) policies as well as those participating in OA publishing agreements depend on accurate data about their publishing outputs. This data can be difficult to track because it is dispersed across systems, many of them proprietary. OA publications themselves are not described with open, usable metadata that can enable the discovery, use, and reuse of research outputs. The Research Organization Registry (ROR) aims to address these fundamental challenges in making all content as usable as possible and facilitating the underpinning data that powers OA. ROR identifiers (IDs) for institutional affiliations are a vital component of open research infrastructure. A joint partner in leading ROR, California Digital Library has been exploring how to maximize the potential of what open IDs for institutional affiliations can do. This session will discuss how ROR’s open infrastructure can play a key role in the OA landscape, and share practical examples of how institutions can implement ROR in different aspects of their OA workflows.
