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Working-group output, perspectives on research-administration standards, news from the CASRAI federation, and substantive long-form on the open-research vocabulary.

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4 June 2026
Open peer review: signals, identifiers, attribution
Open peer review is mainstreaming. The signals, identifiers, and attribution mechanisms that make it work — and the gaps that still need closing in 2026.
21 May 2026
Project IDs in 2026: RAiD adoption update
RAiD has moved from pilot to operational service in several jurisdictions. A status report on adoption, integration patterns, and the questions still open.
20 May 2026
Mentorship as a CRediT role: pro and con
Should mentorship be a CRediT role? The case for, the case against, and a proposed mid-path that recognises mentorship without breaking the taxonomy.
19 May 2026
Cross-institutional CRIS interoperability: the CERIF-Pure-VIVO triangle
CRIS systems are converging on interoperability but the three dominant data models still misalign. A practical guide to the CERIF-Pure-VIVO triangle.
18 May 2026
Welcome to CASRAI on its new home
The CASRAI website has moved to a modern headless stack — Next.js front, WordPress back, federated with NISO, euroCRIS, CODATA, RDA, ORCID, Crossref, DataCite and ARDC.
18 May 2026
CASRAI Dictionary v2026.1 — first release
The first stable release of the modernised CASRAI Dictionary ships today: 714 entries across 20 domains, CC-BY 4.0, machine-readable in seven formats.
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18 May 2026
CRediT for AI-generated content: where the line is
When AI generated parts of a paper, which CRediT roles apply to the humans who prompted and verified? A working line between disclosure and contribution.
15 May 2026
How the Software role applies to code-only outputs
When a paper’s main output is code, the CRediT Software role bears the load. A practical guide to assigning Software for code-only research outputs.
13 May 2026
Carbon-aware computing for academic HPC clusters
Carbon-aware scheduling, geographic shifting, and the practical work of cutting academic HPC’s emissions footprint. What clusters are doing in 2026.
6 May 2026
NSPM-33 implementation: 18 months in
Eighteen months after NSPM-33 disclosure requirements took effect, a status report on what worked, what is broken, and the institutional adjustments still pending.
29 April 2026
Diamond OA at the inflection: SciELO + Latindex + AmeliCA
Latin America’s Diamond OA infrastructures have run a successful model for two decades. What the rest of the world is finally learning from SciELO, Latindex, and AmeliCA.
22 April 2026
CARE-FAIR tension and how the GIDA Manifesto resolves it
FAIR maximises openness; CARE centres Indigenous sovereignty. A walkthrough of the GIDA Manifesto’s reconciliation framework and what implementers should do.
15 April 2026
How to write a CRediT statement for medical research in 2026
ICMJE authorship plus CRediT contributorship: a practical 2026 guide to the 14 roles, lead/equal/supporting qualifiers, JATS XML, and journal-specific expectations.
8 April 2026
What ‘broader impacts’ means under the new NSF policy
NSF’s revised broader-impacts criterion sharpens evidence requirements. A practical guide for applicants and research administrators handling proposals in 2026.
1 April 2026
GenAI in scholarly authorship: the 2026 disclosure landscape
ICMJE rejects AI as an author; publishers require structured disclosure. A 2026 map of who asks for what, the hallucination problem, RAG, and watermark detection.
18 March 2026
Persistent identifiers in 2026: ORCID + ROR + RAiD + DOI
The PID quartet that anchors modern research metadata: how ORCID, ROR, RAiD, and DOIs interlock in 2026, and what’s still broken at the crosswalk layer.
12 March 2026
Reading the RDA DMP Common Standard v2 changelog
RDA’s DMP Common Standard v2 reorganises the machine-actionable data management plan. A field-by-field walkthrough of what changed and why.
4 March 2026
Plan S and Diamond OA: where the open-access conversation is going
Plan S compliance, Diamond OA’s rise, S2O models, Read-and-Publish agreements, and the slow rebalancing of who pays for global scholarly publishing.
26 February 2026
The case for narrative CVs beyond UKRI
UKRI’s Resume for Research and Innovation has matured. Why other funders should adopt narrative-CV formats, and the practical lessons from five years of UKRI experience.
19 February 2026
Reproducibility frameworks in practice: TOP, ARRIVE, CONSORT, PRISMA
A practitioner’s tour of EQUATOR’s reporting guidelines, when each applies, FAIR4RS for software, and the registered-report turn in 2026.
12 February 2026
EOSC Federation governance: what changed in 2026
The 2026 EOSC Federation governance refresh: new node-membership criteria, the sustainability funding model, and how integrators should reposition.
5 February 2026
DORA, CoARA, and the Hong Kong Principles: the responsible-assessment lineage
From DORA (2012) to CoARA (2022) to UKRI’s 2024 R4RI mandate: the slow institutional turn against the impact factor and toward narrative CVs.
29 January 2026
Making sense of the EU AI Act for research administration
What the EU AI Act actually requires of research administrators, where the exemptions sit, and the practical compliance checklist for institutions in 2026.
22 January 2026
Research data management plans go machine-actionable: the maDMP transition
From PDF DMP to RDA-compliant maDMP: tooling, integration, and the new requirement for software-management plans alongside data plans.
15 January 2026
Three CRediT misuses we see in submitted papers
Role inflation, byline-order confusion, and missing writing roles: the three recurring CRediT failures editors flag, with concrete examples and fixes.
8 January 2026
FAIR data assessment frameworks: a buyer’s guide for institutions
RDA Maturity Model, F-UJI, FAIR-Aware, CESSDA, ARDC: which FAIR assessment tool to choose, when, and how to integrate with institutional repositories.
31 December 2025
PRISMA 2026: the next-generation systematic-review reporting standard
PRISMA’s 2026 revision adds AI-assisted screening, living review checklists, and machine-readable flow diagrams. What systematic reviewers need to update.
17 December 2025
Data papers, software papers, and the limits of CRediT
Data papers and software papers don’t map cleanly onto the 14 CRediT roles. A practical guide to the friction and where the taxonomy needs work.
12 December 2025
Paper mills and tortured phrases: the integrity crisis in 2026
Cabanac’s Problematic Paper Screener, retraction wave, citation cartels, COPE flowcharts, and the United2Act initiative: where the publishing-integrity fight stands.