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Release 2019-10-06

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The thirty-fourth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.9963719

Total institutes:

97,900

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including Germany, Spain, Norway, China, Canada, Slovakia, USA, and the UK

Metadata:

ROR IDs have been added as external identifier
Updated Geonames data to a recent release
Added metadata to GRID records without any url and with type "Education"
Review of HESA IDs
Update of Wikidata IDs and Wikipedia links

QA:

Review of the National Physical Laboratory (UK)
Review of the Naval Undersea Warfare Center and Naval Research Laboratory (US)
Review of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Review of the European Space Agency
Review of some German research institutions
Review of "CONICET - the National Scientific and Technical Research Council Argentina"
Review of United Nations organisations
Review of Academia Sinica (Taiwan)
Review of Weill Medical College (US)
Review of US Agricultural Research Service Research Centers
Review of University of Paris-Saclay children

Release 2019-05-06

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The thirty-third public release of GRID.

This is an interim release as there are important fixes requested (thanks to all the ticket submitters for their patience!). We are trying to integrate ROR IDs to enable crosswalk, but the data has not been released yet. We will get a new release out with ROR IDs when we can.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.8137970

Total institutes:

96,793

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including Denmark, USA, UK, Japan, India, China and Australia

QA:

Regional and branch campuses of US universities have been redirected to the main campus
Ambiguous university names have been made distinguishable by including the location in the name
Review of French "École" records

Release 2019-02-17

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The thirty-second public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.7738979

Total institutes:

95,152

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including United States, Europe, India, Brazil and more

QA:

Review of universities with wrong type 'Healthcare'
National Physical Laboratory from additional sources
Review of French "École" GRID records
Consolidation of GRID records belonging to "RISE Research Institutes of Sweden"

Release 2018-11-14

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The thirty-first public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.7346852

Total institutes:

91,640

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Poland and more

Metadata

Added coordinates for organisations in Germany.

QA:

Corrected GeoNames IDs and coordinates of organisations in London, Beijing and Germany.

Release 2018-08-27

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The thirtieth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.7021847

Total institutes:

89,506

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including Korea, India and other international datasets.

Metadata

Added around 7,000 Wikidata IDs to GRID records.

QA:

Review of non-English Wikipedia links.
Review of Wellcome Trust institutes and centers (source data mappings, relationships).
Review of companies from Russian and Chinese sources.

Release 2018-06-25

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The twenty ninth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.6683654

Total institutes:

88,629

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including China, Ireland, Korea, Bahamas, United Kingdom, United States and top 1000 R&D companies world wide

Metadata

Review of Chinese GeoNames IDs in Hong Kong and Beijing area

QA:

Review of the Chinese Academy of Science

Release 2018-05-01

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The twenty eighth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.6216392

Total institutes:

87,868

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including China, Russia, Korea and India

Metadata

Increased coverage of Wikidata

QA:

Review of Australian governmental bodies and agencies
Review of British research councils UKRI - UK Research and Innovation
Corrections to ISNI mappings

Release 2018-02-08

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The twenty seventh public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.5873451

Total institutes:

85,582

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including the US, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Australia and other countries.

Metadata

US dependencies (American Samoa, Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Minor Outlying Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands) are treated as states of the US.
Chinese dependency Hong Kong is treated as a state/region of China.
Changed country name from "Palestinian Territories" to UN and ISO standard "State of Palestine".
Created parent-child relationships for around 200 multinational companies.

QA:

Review of all EU bodies and agencies.
Review of parent-child relationships of Sea Grant and Space Grant organisations.
Adaption of country name changes: Czech Republic is now Czechia.
Review of potential duplicates.

Release 2017-11-09

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The twenty sixth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.5590852

Total institutes:

80,248

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources including the US, EU, China and New Zealand

QA:

Review of funding programs

Release 2017-09-26

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The twenty fifth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.5446678

Total institutes:

78,622

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources from the United States, European Union and South Africa

QA:

Spot checks of insitutes for correctness

Release 2017-08-10

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The twenty fourth public release of GRID.

NOTE: The Geonames region format has been changed, making the ascii_name property optional. View the full format documentation.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.5303380

Total institutes:

76,979

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Various sources from France, Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Crossref Open Funder Registry

QA:

Update of Geonames IDs
Marconi Company Group Review
Structure of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Review of Wikidata feedback

Release 2017-07-12

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The twenty third public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.5203408

Total institutes:

76,030

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant and other sources from the United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland

QA:

Increased coverage of CrossRef Open Funder Registry ID
Metadata and relationship review of US Departments and Federal Agencies
Metadata and relationship review of WHO
Metadata and relationship review of HE organisations in Russia
Resolved duplicate institutes

Release 2017-05-22

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The twenty second public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.5032286

Total institutes:

74,523

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from the USA and Canada
Worldwide data from other sources

QA:

Addition of missing geographical information (lat/long)
Resolved duplicate institutes
Data and relationship review of US DOD and sub-agencies

Release 2017-04-04

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The twenty first public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.4818130

Total institutes:

74,336

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Data from the US, Europe, Asia and Oceania

QA:

Removed duplicates
Improved the structure of the Hungarian Academy of Science

Release 2017-03-08

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The twentieth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.4737286

Total institutes:

73,633

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from the US
Grant data from Denmark

QA:

Removed duplicates
Increased coverage of CrossRef Open Funder Registry IDs

Release 2017-01-31

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The nineteenth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.4602241

Total institutes:

71,727

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from the US

QA:

Removed duplicates
Increased coverage of CrossRef Open Funder Registry IDs
Increased coverage of Wikidata IDs

Release 2017-01-10

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The eighteenth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.4539889

Total institutes:

70,013

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from the US
Grant data from the EU
Grant data from the UK
Grant data from Japan

QA:

Removed duplicates
Improved WikiData coverage

Release 2016-12-06

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The seventeenth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.4290998

Total institutes:

67,021

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from the US
Grant data from the UK
Grant data from Russia
Grant data from Netherlands
Grant data from France

QA:

Removed duplicates
Updated organisational structure for RIKEN
Updated organisational structure for Russian Academy of Sciences
Updated organisational structure for Chinese Academy of Sciences

Release 2016-11-02

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The sixteenth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.4202181

Total institutes:

66,107

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from the US
Grant data from Sweden
Grant data from Russia
Grant data from the UK
Extra funders added

QA:

Removed duplicates and fixed data errors

Release 2016-09-30

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The fifteenth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3980115

Total institutes:

65,201

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from Austria
Grant data from Brazil
Grant data from Mexico

QA:

Removed duplicates and fixed data errors

Release 2016-09-06

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The fourteenth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3807186

Total institutes:

64,846

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from United States
Grant data from Ireland

Metadata:

Increased coverage of Wikidata IDs

QA:

Fixed naming issues for National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) institutes
Added missing entries for Wikimedia Chapter Offices

Release 2016-07-28

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The thirteenth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3506363

Total institutes:

63,215

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from United States
Grant data from Norway
Grant data from the UK

Metadata:

Increased URL coverage by 10%
Increased GPS coordinate coverage by 10%
Removed acronyms from GRID record names in records with multiple parent child relationships

Release 2016-06-30

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The twelfth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3468893

Total institutes:

63,179

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from United States
Grant data from China

Metadata:

Additional CrossRef Open Funder Registry IDs

QA:

Review and update of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) institutes and structure
Review and update of German institutes (LG, MPG, FHG, HZ) and structure
Review of OrgRef mapping to GRID
Review of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) relationships
Resolved some duplicate institutes and incorrectly assigned metadata

Release 2016-05-31

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The eleventh public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3409414

Total institutes:

62,069

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from Switzerland
Grant data from China
Grant data from the United States
Academic organisations from OrgRef

Metadata:

Additional CrossRef Open Funder Registry IDs

QA:

Resolved some duplicate institutes

Release 2016-04-28

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The tenth public release of GRID.

Note: This release changes the External ID format in the JSON dump and it is not backwards compatible so you will need to update any processes that access this data. See the new format description here or an example here

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3205624

Total institutes:

59,822

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

ETER (European Tertiary Education Register)
RAS (Russian Academy of Science)
ORCID

Metadata:

Added more types to institutes
Added over 2000 new CrossRef Open Funder Registry IDs

QA:

Reviewed GRID records where distance between lat/lon and geonames city is > 100km
Resolved some duplicate institutes

Release 2016-04-01

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The ninth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3146014.v1

Total institutes:

58,125

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from China
Grant data from France
Institutes from India

Metadata:

Added Chinese language labels
Increased type coverage
Renamed the relationship "Affilate" to "Related"

QA:

Fixed a number duplicate institutes

Release 2016-02-29

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The eighth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.3080443

Total institutes:

56,587

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from Germany
Grant data from Africa
Institutes from Orgref

Metadata:

Added Orgref and Wikidata links for ~14,000 institutes
Imported local name variants from Wikidata
Updated to the latest Geonames database

QA:

Fixed a number of relationships from / to redirected institutes
Fixed a number of Geo lat / long that were a long way from the address city
Updated relationships and institutes in Helmholtz Association
Updated Norwegian institutes based on recent University mergers

Release 2016-01-25

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The seventh public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.2067321

Total institutes:

54,310

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data United States
Grant data Germany

QA:

Fixed broken address for entry grid.461591.e

Release 2016-01-21

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The sixth public release of GRID.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.2066481

Total institutes:

54,292

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from Norway
Grant data from Canada
Grant data from Poland
Grant data from Finland

QA:

Fixed a number of incorrectly modelled US Univerities (mainly systems)
Fixed a number of duplicates

Release 2015-12-14

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The fifth public release of GRID.

DOI:	10.6084/m9.figshare.2010108
Total institutes:	51,256
Release notes:	Added directorates, programs and institutes from the National Science Foundation QA tasks to review and fix allocation of Fundref IDs

Release 2015-12-01

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The fourth public release of GRID. In this release we have moved to a single ZIP archive containing both the JSON and CSV formats. We now provide the full database as a collection of CSV files.

DOI:

10.6084/m9.figshare.1615029

Total institutes:

50,105

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from Slovenia
Grant data from Brazil
Grant data from United States

Metadata:

Updated the following French Government organisations:
Increased types coverage to 89% of all records.

QA:

Fixed incorrectly labelled external IDs.
Fixed whitespace around acronyms and aliases.

Release 2015-11-05

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The third public release of GRID.

DOIs:

JSON - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1595872
CSV - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1595871

Total institutes:

49,722

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from United States
Grant data from Brazil

Metadata:

Updated all NASA research centres
Updated subordinates for the State University of New York
Updated subordinates for Pennsylvania State University
Added foreign campuses to some universities e.g.
- University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

QA:

Redirected some duplicate entries

Release 2015-10-09

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The second public release of GRID.

DOIs:

JSON - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1570968
CSV - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1570967

Total institutes:

48,598

Release notes:

Institutes added from the following sources:

Grant data from Estonia
Grant data from Slovakia
Grant data from United States
Index of American Universities
the top 5000 most frequently occuring names in the CrossRef database

Metadata:

Coverage of institutes with types increased from 33% to 76%
Parent / Child and Affiliated relationships now included in database dump
Added all NIHR members
All institutes with a Fundref ID have complete metadata

Release 2015-09-22

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The first public release of GRID.

DOIs:	JSON - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1553267 CSV - 10.6084/m9.figshare.1553266
Total institutes:	47,648
Release notes:	Database seeded from research institutes in grant data from over 65 global funders. GeoNames IDs added to all institutes. NUTS codes added to all European institutes. Metadata added for the top 3000 Universities, majority of Germany and Australia and many more. Parent / Child relationships added for 65 super institute members (e.g. Max Planck, Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc.) External identification systems: HESA institution codes (Higher Education Statistics Agency UK) UCAS institution codes (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, UK) UKPRN institution codes (UK Provider Reference Number, UK) 4373 Fundref codes