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Blogs joining Rogue Scholar in December 2024

Blogs joining Rogue Scholar in December 2024

December has seen good growth in the number of blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, with 10 blogs joining in the last three weeks. Here you can find all Rogue Scholar blogs, sorted by join date, and the December 2024 additions are listed below. The newly participating

Report Rogue Scholar Advisory Board Meeting October 16, 2024

Report Rogue Scholar Advisory Board Meeting October 16, 2024

On October 16, 2024, the Rogue Scholar Advisory Board met for the second time since it started in January 2024. Since January Rogue Scholar has achieved several major milestones. In May, DOI registration was switched to using a new commonmeta Go library. This switch allows faster and more flexible DOI

Minimal requirements for a science blog

Minimal requirements for a science blog

Last Friday I attended a workshop by the Infra Wiss Blogs project in Berlin. Infra Wiss Blogs is a project funded by the German Research Foundation and started in July 2024 with the following goal: Infra Wiss Blogs aims to support blogging researchers and information infrastructure institutions in identifying potential

Rogue Scholar enables sign-in with ORCID

Rogue Scholar enables sign-in with ORCID

Starting this week, users of the science blog archive Rogue Scholar can sign in into the service using their ORCID credentials. This is in addition to the local Rogue Scholar accounts that continue to be available, and that can be linked with the ORCID account: This functionality is part of

Improving Rogue Scholar references

Improving Rogue Scholar references

The latest update of the Rogue Scholar science blog archive this week improves the finding and tracking of science blog post references, both on the website and in the API. This update again takes advantage of functionality of the InvenioRDM repository platform, with some minor tweaks. InvenioRDM is based on

Commonmeta is learning new tricks

Commonmeta is learning new tricks

Last week I reported that the commonmeta Go library can now directly register metadata with Crossref and InvenioRDM repositories. With version v0.6.10 released today, I further improved this functionality, making commonmeta an excellent tool for adding existing scholarly metadata to any InvenioRDM instance for testing or showcasing the

Going beyond GitHub Actions for Rogue Scholar

Going beyond GitHub Actions for Rogue Scholar

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar depends heavily on GitHub Actions. They are used to trigger content and metadata extraction of new blog posts and to register DOIs for these posts with Crossref. More recently they have also been used to push this content and metadata to the new InvenioRDM-based

Announcing the Rogue Scholar 111 Pledge Drive

Announcing the Rogue Scholar 111 Pledge Drive

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar was relaunched on the InvenioRDM repository platform last week. While there is still a lot of migration work to do in the coming months, this is a good time to start the Rogue Scholar 111 Pledge Drive today. The name for the drive not

Rogue Scholar gets a facelift

Rogue Scholar gets a facelift

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar relaunched on a new platform today. Now running on the InvenioRDM repository platform, Rogue Scholar continues to improve science blogs in important ways, including full-text search, long-term archiving, DOIs and metadata, and now also communities. The fundamental services that Rogue Scholar provides have not

My contribution to Open Access Week 2024

My contribution to Open Access Week 2024

From October 21 to 27 is International Open Access Week 2024, and this blog post summarizes my contribution for 2024. Open Access Week 2024 will continue the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic

The Rogue Scholar migration to InvenioRDM is taking shape

The Rogue Scholar migration to InvenioRDM is taking shape

Last week I integrated the InvenioRDM API with the Rogue Scholar API, enabling the automated export of metadata to the InvenioRDM platform. As of today, 5,046 (28.8%) blog posts have been exported to InvenioRDM and can be explored via UI and API, The export currently includes most metadata,

Rogue Scholar learns about communities

Rogue Scholar learns about communities

The Rogue Scholar infrastructure started migrating to InvenioRDM infrastructure a few weeks ago. This first phase of the migration will conclude on November 4 with the switch of the Rogue Scholar frontend (rogue-scholar.org) to InvenioRDM (to what is currently hosted at beta.rogue-scholar.org). InvenioRDM record For the most

Rogue Scholar migrates to InvenioRDM

Rogue Scholar migrates to InvenioRDM

In August v.12.0 of the InvenioRDM turn-key research data management repository was released, the first long-term support (LTS) release of the open source software since January 2023. This release enabled the migration of the Rogue Scholar infrastructure to the InvenioRDM platform, a process that will take the next

Zotero 7 released

Zotero 7 released

Version 7 of the open source reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. Read the linked announcement for details, but the most excited feature for me is an improved built-in reader with ePub support. Zotero allows you to store metadata and full-text publications and while PDF is the standard format