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Dev tools · October 13, 2015

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GRID, a free database of the world's research organisations

GRID, a free database of the world's research organisations launched on October 13, 2015 with 25 votes, #1,820 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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GRID is a free, open database of research organization identifiers that was launched in 2015 and integrated into Dimensions in 2021. The database provides unique identifiers for research-related organizations worldwide, making it easier to identify and track institutions in academic and scientific contexts. GRID's mission has been transferred to ROR (Research Organization Registry), the community-driven successor, while historical GRID data remains freely available under Creative Commons licensing.

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In 2021 GRID became an integrated part of Dimensions and passed the torch to ROR for being the community driven research organisation identifier. Read the shared announcement of the GRID and the ROR team further below. All previous GRID releases until September 2021 will remain openly available as CC0 on figshare , while the GRID team will now focus on curating organisation data within Dimensions . In 2015 Digital Science first released the Global Research Identifier Database (GRID), an open database of unique research-related organisation identifiers they had developed in-house over several years, for public use by the research community. In 2019 ROR, the Research Organization Registry,…from grid.ac

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