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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

Rogue Scholar reaches another milestone and drops all registration fees

Rogue Scholar reaches another milestone and drops all registration fees

Earlier this month the Rogue Scholar science blog archive reached another important milestone: 100 science blogs registered and archived (with in total 16,179 posts). Rogue Scholar launched twelve months ago and this rate of adoption of the service has greatly surpassed my expectations. To celebrate this milestone, Rogue Scholar

Announcing InvenioRDM Starter Beta

Announcing InvenioRDM Starter Beta

Today I am happy to announce the first beta release of InvenioRDM Starter. InvenioRDM is an open source repository management platform developed by more than 25 organizations coordinated by CERN. The release of the next major version (v12.0) will happen in a few weeks, with the second release candidate

Blogs are not Journals

Blogs are not Journals

This week I updated the submission form for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive to clarify that participating blogs can't be journals (or books). Journals and journal articles have many similarities to blogs and blog posts, but they are something different, and out of scope for the Rogue