National Research Strategy
Government research strategies, missions, and roadmaps, and the structural reorganisations that follow them. Slower-moving than the budget cycle but with longer-lasting consequences for how national research systems are organised.
Coverage (8)
- The Education Department’s Call to Action: What the Seven Asks Mean for Research Offices
On August 3, 2026, Education Secretary Linda McMahon asked every university president and governing board to publish, by year-end, a public statement across seven areas — including safeguarding resear…
- OpenAlex’s 2026 Roadmap: Walden, Awards, Pricing
OpenAlex’s January 2026 roadmap: the Walden rewrite to Databricks is done, Awards is now a first-class entity, and credit-based API pricing is rolling out.…
- NVA Replaces Cristin: What Changed for Norway’s National Research-Information System
Norway retired Cristin during 2025 in favor of NVA (Nasjonalt vitenarkiv, the Norwegian Research Information Repository), a single national system operated by Sikt that also absorbed 60-plus instituti…
- Bengaluru Roadmap: What the 3rd Diamond OA Summit Committed To
The 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access (Bengaluru, Feb 2026) produced a six-pillar global roadmap for OA policy, funding, and evaluation reform.…
- Korea Research Foundation Clears Changwon National University President of Research Misconduct After Three-Year Probe
South Korea’s National Research Foundation found no research misconduct in Changwon National University president Park Min-won’s papers, closing a three-year plagiarism and duplicate-publication revie…
- Looking ahead: CASRAI 2027 priorities
Where CASRAI is headed in 2027: priorities for the Dictionary, the federation work, CRediT v3 discussions, and the integration roadmap.…
- What’s in the v2026.3 Dictionary roadmap
A preview of the v2026.3 CASRAI Dictionary release: scope, new terms, deprecations, and the schema-evolution work threading through the update.…
- ORCID 4.0: the IDR roadmap and what it means for CASRAI integrations
ORCID’s 4.0 IDR refresh tightens the contributor-affiliation-funding crosswalk. A walkthrough of what changes for CASRAI integrations and what publishers should do now.…
