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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

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