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

We've been building this for a while and now have our first public release!

It's a database of 48,598 research organisations around the world, many with added metadata. CC-BY, so you can grab it and use it in commercial applications. It's been useful internally and we wanted to share it.

You can download the full db here: https://www.grid.ac/downloads (the JSON version has all the metadata, the CSV is there for ease of integration with basic info) or explore what's present here: https://www.grid.ac/institutes

And a final link, the announcement blog post: http://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/digital-science-lau...

[I was asked to resubmit this, if you've seen it yesterday!]

Perhaps it's just me, but "GRID" rather than "Grid" has unfortunate connotations.