Electronic research databases provider EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), US, has announced an agreement with journal supply chain support provider Ringgold, Inc. Under the deal, EBSCO will implement the latter’s Ringgold Institutional Identifier within EBSCOhost databases - supplying the Identifier to publishers with their usage reports.
Offering the Ringgold Identifier will allow EBSCO’s publisher partners to immediately integrate customer usage reports information into their own internal systems, a process that until now was manual. This information will be available to publishers in their quarterly reports beginning in 2010. Ringgold Identifier uniquely identifies 155,000 institutional entities and is currently used by over 40 academic publishers to organise their customer data, prepare quotations for licenses and deals, and also for market analysis.
Ringgold works with other publisher services companies and consultants, including software and service providers such as DataSalon (www.datasalon.com), Ingenta (www.ingenta.com) and Thomson Reuters (www.thomsonreuters.com). EBSCO Publishing provides nearly 300 full-text and secondary databases to libraries around the world.
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