Ringgold identifier

Identifier for organisations in the publishing industry

Ringgold ID

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Subject| Organizations in the publishing industry supply chain
Full name| Ringgold Identifier
Acronym| RIN
Organisation|

* Ringgold, Inc.
* Ringgold, Ltd.

Introduced| 2003 (2003)
No. issued| >518,000
Example| RIN 5072 (Wellcome Trust)
Website| www.ringgold.com/ringgold-identifier/

A Ringgold Identifier (Ringgold ID or RIN) is a persistent numeric unique identifier for organizations in the publishing industry supply chain.[1][2] Ringgold's Identify Database includes over 500,000 Ringgold IDs representing organizations and consortia that acquire scholarly publications and content.[3]

The Ringgold ID was introduced in 2003. Ringgold developed it in response to an issue raised by Oxford University Press, namely how to identify institutional subscribers unambiguously.[4] The system is owned and administered by Ringgold, Inc. and Ringgold, Ltd., who also publish a taxonomy for classifying the subject interests of the listed organizations.[1][5]

Ringgold is an International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) registration agency,[6] and as such the US National Information Standards Organization (NISO) recommended that Ringgold IDs be used to identify organizations involved in scholarly communications. Ringgold Identifiers were used by ORCID, to record the institutional affiliation of individual researchers.[6][7] ORCID announced in 2023 that it will end its support of Ringgold.[8]

## See also

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* Research Organization Registry, a community-led dataset that aims to provide a persistent identifier for every research organization in the world.

## References

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1. ^ a b "Ringgold Inc". Ringgold Inc. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
2. ^ "Institutional Identifiers (I2)". National Information Standards Organization. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
3. ^ "Solutions - Identify Database". Ringgold Inc. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
4. ^ "Ringgold Identifier". Ringgold Inc. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
5. ^ "UKSG eNews". JISC. 12 March 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
6. ^ a b "ORCID to begin using Ringgold as Registration Agency". ISNI. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
7. ^ "How are organizations identified in ORCID? – FAQs about the ORCID API". ORCID. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
8. ^ "ORCID support for RINGGOLD organization IDs ending FAQ". ORCID. Retrieved 22 March 2024.

## External links

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Wikidata has the property:

* Ringgold ID (P3500) (see uses)

* Official website
* Aligned ISNI and Ringgold identifiers for institutions at Zenodo

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