Scholastica Integrates Research Organization Registry IDs

NISO Member News

Chicago, IL | January 31, 2023

Including persistent identifiers (a.k.a. PIDs) in article-level metadata is one of the best ways to improve journal archiving and discovery while promoting interoperability across scholarly communication systems. That’s why Scholastica is so focused on supporting the latest industry-standard PIDs — and this month, we have an exciting announcement! We’ve integrated our peer review system, production service, and OA publishing platform with ROR institutional identifiers.

Scholastica now automatically applies ROR IDs to institutions when authors input them into our peer review submission form and when editors add them to any articles they send to Scholastica’s production service or publish via our OA hosting platform.

How the new ROR integration works

We’ve universally applied ROR support to Scholastica’s peer review system, production service, and OA publishing platform, so there’s no setup required on the part of journals and no additional cost.

We now automatically add ROR IDs for institutional metadata when:

• Authors input institutions into Scholastica’s peer review system submission form (for all authors, not just corresponding authors)
• Editors add institutions to articles before sending them to Scholastica’s production service
• Editors add institutions to Scholastica’s OA publishing platform article creation form

Journals subscribed to multiple Scholastica products (e.g., peer review, production, and OA publishing) can import metadata, including ROR IDs, from one solution to another to save time. We include ROR IDs in all the metadata we produce for journals using our production service and/or OA publishing platform. And we submit ROR IDs to the discovery services Scholastica integrates with, including Crossref and PubMed Central. You can see an example of ROR in Crossref article-level metadata produced by Scholastica here.