Institutional Identifiers and the Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot Helen Henderson

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Institutional Identifiersand the Journal Supply
Chain Efficiency Improvement PilotHelen
HendersonRinggold Ltd

• UKSG Conference Briefing Session
• Warwick, April 2007

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Topics

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

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Institutional Identifiers

• Location definitions
• Delivery Codes
• Inter-lending Codes
• e.g. SAN, MARC Organization Codes, GLN, ISIL
• Financial/business information
• D-U-N-S numbers
• Company numbers
• Tax identifiers

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How are they used?

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

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Licensing

• Big deals
• Consortia
• Opt-in and Opt-out
• Global companies
• Aggregators
• Overlap analysis
• Changes in groupings
• MA, NHS

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Marketing Customer Support

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

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Customer analysis

• Group customers
• Internationally
• By sector
• By location
• Compare to universe
• Sectors
• Country markets

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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

Consortium
Aggregator
Aggregator
Organization
Online Hosting
Online Hosting
Department
Agent
Library
Agent
Individual
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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

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www.journalsupplychain.org
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Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Pilot (JSCEI)

• Current Participants
• British Library
• HighWire Press
• HighWire Publishers
• Ringgold
• Swets
• UK Libraries
• 9 work packages

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Scope

• UK subscriber information
• Ringgolds Identify database
• Mapping transactions between participants
• Evaluating effort needed to standardize
  transactions
• Evaluating benefits

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How Ringgold is involved

• Institutional Database
• 67,000 institutions worldwide
• All 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

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Main outstanding issues

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

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Granularity

• Different levels of information and granularity
  needed for different transactions
• Library gt Agent
• Agent gt Publisher
• Publisher gt Hosting Service
• Agent gt Hosting Service

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Message Formats

• Need standardization
• ICEDIS
• XML
• Identifiers

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Systems Support

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

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Business Model

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

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Governance Standards

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

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Journal Supply Chain - Fixed
Ringgold Institutional Identifiers

• Publisher

Consortium
Aggregator
Aggregator
Organization
Online Hosting
Online Hosting
Department
Agent
Agent
Library
Affiliated Individual
Independent Individual
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Next Steps

• Ringgold look-up service for Identifiers
• Expand to other geographic areas and participants
• Evaluate business models
• Industry standards

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Questions Discussion

• helen_at_ringgold.com