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Rogue Scholar Newsletter May 2026

This is the May 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogu…

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Rogue Scholar has now archived 50,000 science blog posts

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar last week achieved an important milestone: archiving 50,000 science blog posts, will searchable full-text, rich metadata, and DOIs. Rogue Scholar started to arc…

3d ago·4 min read·685 words

Changes in the Rogue Scholar blog submission workflow

Submitting a blog to the Rogue Scholar science blog archive requires filling out a simple form, and sometimes answering a few additional questions via email. In recent months I haven't caught up with …

May 21·2 min read·385 words

Launching the Rogue Scholar Feed OPML file and Feed Reader

Today the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching an OPML file export of all active blogs. OPML is the standard export format for blog feeds and includes the blog category and feed URL – Rogue…

May 18·2 min read·358 words

Rogue Scholar Newsletter April 2026

This is the April 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Ro…

May 13·1 min read·50 words

Rogue Scholar starts to register blog DOIs

This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive started registering DOIs for blogs, in addition to the DOIs for blog posts it registers since 2023.

Apr 16·1 min read·32 words

Rogue Scholar launches a Featured Posts Newsletter

This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching a weekly newsletter of featured English-language posts, joining the weekly newsletters of all posts written in German, Spanish or French.

Apr 7·1 min read·37 words

Rogue Scholar Newsletter March 2026

This is the March 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Ro…

Apr 2·1 min read·50 words

Rogue Scholar improves blog self-management

This week the science blog archive Rogue Scholar improved the blog self-management functionality of the platform, allowing blog owners to change (almost) all blog settings themselves.

Apr 1·1 min read·31 words

Introducing Rogue Scholar community dashboards

About 12 months ago Rogue Scholar introduced dashboards with summary statistics of the science blogging archive. At the end of 2025 these dashboards migrated to the Rogue Scholar landing page. Today R…

Mar 26·1 min read·50 words

Increasing operational transparency in Rogue Scholar

Last week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched a self-hosted system to systematically collect metrics, logs and errors, with monitoring of service uptime and alert messages. The source code…

Mar 16·1 min read·44 words

Rogue Scholar Newsletter February 2026

This is the February 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in…

Mar 5·1 min read·50 words

Rogue Scholar meets the InvenioRDM community (again)

This week the InvenioRDM community meets in Graz for five days to discuss the open source repository platform. Front Matter has been part of the InvenioRDM community since August 2021, and Rogue Schol…

Feb 23·1 min read·48 words

Rogue Scholar speaks more languages

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has supported multiple languages since almost the beginning. This week the homepage has improved support for the three most popular blog post languages besides E…

Feb 16·1 min read·40 words

Rogue Scholar Newsletter January 2026

This is the January 2026 issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in …

Feb 11·1 min read·50 words