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- Ringgold and Ingenta pioneer centralization of institutional authentication data. 19 May 2008.
- Why do you lose access to your electronic resources? How an institutional identifier can help. Helen Henderson. Serials 21(2), July 2008.
Libraries
Are you looking to acquire a new system?
Has everything changed since you last wrote your specifications or looked at the market?
Do you spend most of the time briefing a consultant to do the work for you?
OpenRFP has been developed to help libraries and publishers acquire new systems with the minimum of effort, using existing specifications which can be tailored to your own requirements.
Vendors
Have you responded to an RFP and then spent the next six months changing the specifications?
Do you spend a lot of time hand-holding your potential customers through the bid response process?
OpenRFP provides a structured way to educate the purchaser and inform them of your capabilities without extensive visits and discussions.
You will be alerted to new bids from all over the world and your data can already be available for minor modifications for each bid.
Publishers
Do you know who your customers are?
What is your market penetration in the medical markets in India?
Which key government departments are not subscribing to your journals?
Are your consortia and site license quotes accurate?
Ringgold’s Identify database of over 100,000 subscribing institutions will allow you to do your initial business development without expensive market research reports and to pinpoint those areas of most opportunity.