From: Giselle Rawlins <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 18:21:28 +0100

For immediate release

Danvers, Mass. and Portland, OR - Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a
global licensing and content solutions organization, has partnered with
Ringgold, the authority on institutional identification, to integrate the
Ringgold Identify database into CCC's RightsLinkR for Open Access platform
to host and execute institution-specific pricing rules.

"When authors publish in Open Access journals, they often pay article
processing charges, or APCs," said Bill Neuman, CCC Vice President,
Products.  "Many publishers, especially society publishers, offer special
pricing and discounts to subscribing institutions.  By using standard
institutional identifiers, like the Ringgold Number, to disambiguate author
affiliations, author charges can be calculated according to pre-negotiated
deals.  Institutions don't need to worry about authors mistyping
affiliations, and reporting reflects consistent data."

"Our Identify database provides RightsLink for Open Access with unique
identifiers, and core metadata about institutions from all over the world,"
said Jay G. Henry, Ringgold Chief Marketing Officer.  "Standard,
institutional metadata is becoming more and more important as publishers and
their authors must comply with funder mandates and report transactions
inside and outside their respective organizations."

CCC is Ringgold's first partner to use its institutional identifiers
specifically to simplify the collection, management, and reporting of
publication charges.

RightsLink for Open Access streamlines the entire author fee transaction,
ensuring that critical research is published as quickly as possible.  The
author workflow is driven by publisher-supplied metadata and a sophisticated
rules engine that houses publishers' pricing and discount rules.

Ringgold's Identify database facilitates the management of complex
institutional relationships by providing an authority file of more than
390,000 organizations in the scholarly supply chain. Each Identify record
contains a unique Ringgold Number, robust metadata, and hierarchical links
to related institutions.

About Copyright Clearance Center

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a leading global rights-licensing
technology organization, provides solutions that simplify compliance for
content users, promotes the work of creators and supports the principles of
copyright. A rights broker for the world's most sought-after journals,
books, blogs, movies and more, CCC makes it easy for businesses and academic
institutions to use, share and store copyrighted material while compensating
content creators for their works. With its international subsidiary,
RightsDirect, CCC serves more than 35,000 customers and 12,000 publishers
around the world.

About Ringgold

Ringgold (www.ringgold.com) supports a scholarly supply chain where
information and data about subscribers, authors, readers, and content is
able to flow easily and without confusion. With the Identify database and
affiliated services, Ringgold provides authoritative data on institutions
such as licensees, funders, sources of research, and consortia. Ringgold's
ProtoView service enhances the discovery of scholarly works by creating and
disseminating standard metadata via an extensive distribution network,
including a website for librarians and researchers.   More than 750 academic
publishers utilize Ringgold's services to improve internal data governance,
increase discoverability of published works, and maximize the potential of
their data.