Ringgold and PSI join forces

Ringgold and Publisher Solutions International (PSI) have signed an agreement that will enable both companies to provide services based on the power of combining Ringgold's Identify Database and PSI's IP Registry.

The deal will allow Ringgold customers to license IP data for institutional records within Identify. Likewise, PSI customers will be able to licence Ringgold IDs, hierarchies and metadata.

The curated IP data in the IP Registry will be linked to Ringgold's Institutional Identifiers, organisational hierarchies and rich metadata. Customers of both companies will be able to utilise the data from a single source, reducing time and effort to assess and analyse sales, licensing, usage, and authentication for their customers.

Andrew Pitts, PSI CEO, said: ‘This is great news for the scholarly communication community; it makes perfect sense for the premier providers of organisational hierarchy and validated IP range standards to combine data and sales efforts to offer their shared customers the added value of a joined-up service wherein Ringgold and IP Registry organisational IDs are mapped.’

Laura Cox, president of Ringgold, said: ‘We're excited to be part of the solution to a substantial and widespread challenge in our industry. By mapping Ringgold IDs to the IP Registry data, publishers can better determine licensing arrangements and usage in conjunction with their authentication systems to provide accurate access to entitled users. This data will provide the basis for an entirely new class of industry solutions.’