This is the third issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.

Blogs added to Rogue Scholar

Four blogs from four different subject areas were added in February. Welcome everybody!

John Arundel (Bitfield Consulting)

Computer and information sciences, English.
https://bitfieldconsulting.com/posts/

Roger Beecham's blog

Social and economic geography, English.
https://www.roger-beecham.com

Análise Quantitativa das Mudanças Sociais

Social science, Portuguese.
https://aqms.substack.com/

Blogposts on autosys

Computer and information sciences, English.
https://autosys.informatik.haw-hamburg.de/blog/

Technical Updates

In March, I continued work on the statistics page, which was renamed to the Rogue Scholar dashboard. The data for this page comes from Rogue Scholar search facets, which have been greatly expanded, including filtering by publication year:

Work has started to show the full-text content (stored in the database since Rogue Scholar launched and available via API) on record landing pages. This helps with archiving and searching the full-text content.

The feature is currently undergoing extensive testing and will launch on April 14. Users with manager permissions for communities (blog, subject area, or topic) can see the full-text already. If you do, please provide feedback.

Community Update

InvenioRDM is the repository platform that powers Rogue Scholar as well as more than 20 other repositories, including Zenodo. Last week, about 40 people met in Hamburg for the annual partner meeting to discuss ongoing development, new features, and the timeline for the release of version v13 of the platform. On the first day, we had short presentations from about ten InvenioRDM instances in production, highlighting unique functionalities. I shared my slides two weeks ago.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2025, March 10). Working on the Rogue Scholar dashboard. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/wtvvs-f4h04
  2. Fenner, M. (2025, March 19). Rogue Scholar meets the InvenioRDM community. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/1aw0b-pr243
  3. Fenner, M. (2025). Rogue Scholar InvenioRDM Workshop 2025. https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15050863