Identify
Ringgold has developed a database of institutions which subscribe to journals. The institutions include companies, government departments, academic institutions, hospitals and other medical institutions, not for profit and charities and many more. This database includes metadata such as legal name, alternative names, location and demographics, URL and metrics such as size, tier and type of organization.
Attached to the metadata are a series of identifiers which can be mapped to each other to allow different parts of the journal supply chain to communicate seamlessly. The database currently covers about 40,000 organizations in the 20 major subscribing countries in the world and is expanding rapidly.
The ultimate aim is to have an authoritative database
of the institutions and their identifiers which can be used by any participant
in the publishing supply and value chain.
