Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has announced that Gold Open Access (OA) publisher Frontiers has adopted the Ringgold Identify Database as its Persistent Identifier (PID) solution to help power its OA models by normalising and disambiguating organization data.

With more than 600,000 Ringgold PIDs and metadata records, the Ringgold Identify Database provides a curated view of organization data to help stakeholders improve data quality, drive strategic decision-making, and support data interoperability across the scholarly communications ecosystem.

Since its acquisition of Ringgold, CCC has become a leading provider of PIDs for organisations that participate in the scholarly communications ecosystem. CCC relies on Ringgold identifiers to disambiguate author affiliations related to Article Processing Charges (APCs) managed through RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC).

CCC is a long-time supporter of the creation, development, and proliferation of identifiers. The acquisition of Ringgold reflects CCC’s ongoing commitment to promoting data interoperability, addressing market friction, and collaborating with stakeholders like Frontiers to create solutions together.

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