Ringgold wants to ensure that the Consortium Directory Online is helping our customers to reach their sales goals. We offered this general training session on Tues 20 Jan 2015 which reviewed key features, showing our customers how to: - Create target lists of consortia to align with your broader sales strategy - Download contact details, membership lists, and full profiles - Find consortia licensing competing content but not your own - Reveal information to assist with negotiation & creation of offers

1. Ringgold Webinar Series
January 20 2015

2. Ringgold’s Vision
A scholarly supply chain where
information and data about
subscribers, authors, readers,
and content is able to flow
easily and without confusion.
Trust in data increases, and
more confident decisions can
be made.

3. High-Quality Institutional Data
 Ringgold’s established expertise in providing validated,
structured, curated information on institutions which make
up the scholarly supply chain.
 Identify database was founded in 2005. It has since grown to
include entries on more than 400,000 institutions – including
consortia. Home of the Ringgold Identifier, a unique ID used
to link data in the CDO, and by many publishers and
intermediaries.
 Consortia are a particularly complex set of institutions of high
value and importance to publishers.

4. Consortium Directory Online

5. What We’ll Cover Today
 Develop prospect lists
 Consortia licensing similar content
 Specialist consortia
 Gauge global or regional consortia market for your products
 Enhance your CRM & creation of mailing lists
 Inform negotiations with key information
 Review consortia information available in Identify
 Reduce time spent on research

6. CDO Contents
 All content researched by Ringgold’s CDO
Editor, Moritz Schick. Only verifiable
information is included, according to
Ringgold’s editorial policy.
 Over 425 active consortia records from more
than 100 countries
 All consortia fully profiled for membership,
vendors licensed, with information on
licensing terms, negotiation process, and full
contact details.

7. Expansion & Maintenance
 We added 16 new consortia profiles in 2014: 3 in India, 2 in
the United States, 1 in Canada. Six were in countries which
had not been previously included in CDO (Algeria, Cyprus,
Morocco, Myanmar, Romania, Tunisia).
 Three records were created due to customer requests.
 New CDO entries are disseminated in our Customer Bulletin,
CDO Bulletin (3x per year), and Twitter feed.
 Regular updates: All entries are fully reviewed at least once
per year, highly active consortia are updated more frequently.

8. Reminders About Your Subscription
 Access is enterprise wide: All divisions may utilize complete array
of CDO features and data.
 CDO Online: Ringgold’s web interface. Accessible via UN/PW and
IP addresses.
 Weekly data feed: Direct feed of complete CDO database for
incorporation into your own data warehouse or systems is
available upon request.
 Subscriptions available for CDO Complete and pre-set regions
(North America, Europe, ROW). Customized regions also available.

9.  Training sessions for your team are
available upon request
 Contact cdo.support@ringgold.com
or your account manager
 Request a new consortia profile or
update of an existing one via the
Feedback button
 Help & support links are embedded
throughout the CDO

10. Any Suggestions? Questions?

11. Christine Orr
Sales Director
christine.orr @ ringgold.com
Tel: 540.359.6620
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1362-3330
www.ringgold.com
Clean Data. Confident Decisions.