Affiliation support in Open Journal Systems using ROR Identifiers

Discoverable academic affiliations enrich scholarly communication in multiple ways: Standardized, controlled organization vocabularies significantly simplify consistent maintenance, indexing, searching, and dissemination of scholarly affiliations from publications.

Research Organization Registry (ROR.org) maintains one of the world's largest collection of organization identifiers with enriched metadata, which is searchable and freely accessible through a web and programmable interface.

In order to make use of ROR Organization Registry, TIB Open Publishing developed and implemented the ROR Identifier support for Open Journal Systems (OJS). The plugin enables searching functionality and and multi-lingual auto-completion of affiliations for authors of academic journals and conference publications in OJS.

The advantages of the OJS-ROR integration for both authors and publication hosting institutions will be presented with an academic and technical focus.