CCC Ringgold Solutions

On 3 May, 2022, CCC acquired Ringgold, a longstanding provider of persistent organization identifiers widely used by the scholarly communications community. With offices in the US and UK, Ringgold is now a wholly owned subsidiary of CCC. Enhanced data quality is a differentiator, powering solutions in the scholarly communications landscape. Persistent identifiers (PIDs) that are globally unique and associated with accurate metadata about an article, a grant, a person, a project, or an organization, play a vital role in the ecosystem. Ringgold is a recognized leader in PIDs for organizations and institutions. CCC has partnered with Ringgold for years and employs its identifiers to disambiguate author affiliations related to article processing charges in CCCs RightsLink for Scientific Communications offering. Today, among its other services, Ringgolds IdentifyDB identifier database contains more than 600,000 organization IDs and related metadata. CCC is a long-time supporter of the...