Journal supply chain support provider Ringgold, US, has announced an agreement with Kinokuniya Company Ltd, Japan, to work together to enhance the accuracy of the entries of the Japanese institutions within Ringgold's OpenIdentify database. Also, the Ringgold Institutional Identifier will be implemented within Kinokuniya systems.
The Ringgold database uniquely identifies 154,000 institutional entities that subscribe to academic journals and over 7,000 of these are in Japan. The associated metadata includes Japanese and English names, locations, URLs, sizes and subject categories. Kinokuniya will use their local knowledge to keep this metadata up to date in the rapidly changing Japanese markets, including corporations, government departments and academia. More than 40 publishers currently use Ringgold's database and its related services to organise their customer data, prepare quotations for licenses and deals, and also for market analysis.
Ringgold partners with other publisher services companies and consultants, including software and service providers such as DataSalon, Ingenta and Thomson Reuters. The company creates and maintains a hierarchic database of identifiers for institutions to support publishers and other parties in the delivery of e-content within the information supply chain.
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