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Institutional Identifiersand the Journal Supply Chain Efficiency

Improvement Pilot

Helen HendersonRinggold Ltd

UKSG Conference Briefing SessionWarwick, April 2007

Topics

• Institutional Identifiers – quick overview• How Identifiers are used in the supply chain• Complexity of journal supply chain• Journal Supply Chain Pilot• Future activities

Institutional Identifiers

• Location definitionsDelivery CodesInter-lending Codese.g. SAN, MARC Organization Codes, GLN, ISIL

• Financial/business informationD-U-N-S numbersCompany numbersTax identifiers

How are they used?

• Licensing• Marketing• Customer analysis• Authorization• Authentication• Optimising support of the journal supply chain

Licensing

• Big dealsConsortiaOpt-in and Opt-outGlobal companies

• AggregatorsOverlap analysis

• Changes in groupingsM&A, NHS

Marketing & Customer Support

• Market penetration• Gap analysis• Renewals• Institution overview (authors, editors,

referees, customers)

Customer analysis

• Group customersInternationallyBy sectorBy location

• Compare to universeSectorsCountry markets

Authorization & Authentication

• Who is the institution• What rights do they have• Who can exercise these rights• How can they be activated• IP, Athens, Shibboleth, User ID/Password,

Certificates• Institutional Registry

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Journal Supply Chain - Today

Publisher

Individual

Department

Library

Consortium

AgentAgent

OnlineHostingOnline

Hosting

AggregatorAggregator

Organization

Journal Supply Chain - complexity

• Electronic era has changed workflows• Publishers have more direct contact with

customers• Increase in large bulk negotiations• Mixed institutions (commercial, academic)• Overlapping & enlarged consortia• New authentication mechanisms

www.journalsupplychain.org

Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Pilot (JSCEI)

• Current ParticipantsBritish LibraryHighWire PressHighWire Publishers RinggoldSwetsUK Libraries

• 9 work packages

Scope

• UK subscriber information• Ringgold’s Identify database• Mapping transactions between participants• Evaluating effort needed to standardize

transactions• Evaluating benefits

How Ringgold is involved

• Institutional Database67,000 institutions worldwideAll sectors (academic, corporate, government, NfP)35+ publishers using database and identifiers

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Institutional Relationships

CDC Subscriptions

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JSCEI Current Status

• 6 work packages completed• Interim Report produced• Continuing along chain, now working with

publishers and hosting services• Investigating expanding pilot outside UK and

existing participants

Main outstanding issues

• Granularity• Message formats• Systems support• Business model• Governance & standards

Granularity

• Different levels of information and granularity needed for different transactions:Library > AgentAgent > PublisherPublisher > Hosting ServiceAgent > Hosting Service

Message Formats

• Need standardizationICEDISXMLIdentifiers

Systems Support

• ILS• ERM• Agents• Fulfilment• Authentication• Authorization

Business Model

• Must be sustainable• Someone must pay• Gaining most benefits and value

Governance & Standards

• Ensure continuity• Metadata definitions • Linking allowed: Communication formats• Institutional hierarchic data maintained• Standards are “Public” and “Open”

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Ringgold Institutional Identifiers

Journal Supply Chain - Fixed

Publisher

Affiliated Individual

Department

Library

Consortium

AgentAgent

OnlineHostingOnline

Hosting

AggregatorAggregator

Organization

IndependentIndividual

Next Steps

• Ringgold look-up service for Identifiers• Expand to other geographic areas and

participants• Evaluate business models• Industry standards

Questions & Discussion

helen@ringgold.com