ROR release 2.5, plus materials from recent events

[Amanda French]

Hi all, 

Release 2.5 of the Research Organization Registry is now available! Release 2.5 adds 2108 records and updates 393 records, bringing the total of active, inactive, and withdrawn records in ROR to 124,882. 

For context, ROR launched in 2019 with 91,000 records, so that's quite an increase. All kudos to our intrepid curation team! 

To learn more about the recent work of said intrepid curation team, you can access the slides and recording from last week's Community Call at https://ror.org/events/2026-03-26-ror-community-call. The slides and recording from our joint webinar with OpenAlex, "Accurate Affiliations, Accurate Attributions" are also available at https://ror.org/events/2026-03-19-openalex-accurate-affiliations. 

Cheers,

Amanda