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30th September 2010, Towcester, UK, Beaverton, Oregon and Crystal River, Florida, USA The Consortium Directory, originally published by Frontline GMS Ltd will become available as an online database in partnership with Ringgold Inc, creating a unique resource for the information industry. The new Directory, renamed the Consortium Directory Online (CDO), is the most comprehensive directory of the library consortium market available, will include over 600 library consortia in 100 countries. It will include fully updated profiles of the consortia included in both Ringgold's Identify database and Frontline's Consortium Purchasing Directory, plus many new consortia. The Consortium Directory Online (CDO) can be fully integrated with Ringgold's Identify database. The inclusion of Ringgold Identifiers for the member institutions, consortia themselves and for the publishers and vendors licensing to the consortium, will make it searchable in a wide variety of manners. Users will be able to search for consortia by name, region or country, by specific institutional member or publisher licensed, and by consortium type, membership type and subject speciality. They can download search results, and user-defined data into PDF or Excel. Profiles of consortia in the CDO will contain full contact information and member lists, plus publishers licensed, and a wealth of background information, including information about licensing criteria and the consortium structure. Laura Cox, Managing Director of Frontline said: "Bringing together these two products has created a unique resource enabling intuitive search and browse functions across an unmatched number of library consortia operating in all regions of the world. In taking the Directory online, we are able to offer an unrivalled resource for publishers and vendors involved in, or wishing to start, licensing online content and services to library consortia." Helen Henderson, Ringgold's VP of Marketing, Research and Development said: "This new consortium resource enhances the Ringgold Identify services for any publisher, and particularly for those publishers now matching their institutional subscribers to Ringgold identifiers. " Available on subscription, the Consortium Directory Online will be continually updated with consortium changes and mergers, new information, and new consortia as they emerge. Demonstrations will be available from Ringgold's stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 4.2, N448, where we will also be offering a pre-order discount. The CDO will be fully available in early 2011. For further information please contact [log in to unmask] About Ringgold More than 40 publishers currently use Ringgold's database and its related services to organise their customer data, prepare quotations for licenses and deals, and also for market analysis. Ringgold partners with other publisher services companies and consultants, including software and service providers such as DataSalon, Ingenta and Thomson Reuters. Helen Henderson, Ringgold's VP of Marketing, Research and Development, acts as consultant to the National Standards Information Organization (NISO) I2 Working Group on Institutional Identifiers, which is establishing an identifier standard for applications in e-resource publishing, e-learning, institutional repositories, and library management systems. www.ringgold.com About Frontline Frontline GMS was set up by Laura Cox in 2004 and provides marketing, promotion and sales consultancy services to the academic and professional publishing industry. Frontline specialises in advising publishers, vendors and intermediaries in several areas, specifically marketing strategy, PR, negotiating with library consortia, setting pricing and business models, using and analysing subscription, customer and usage data and other operational issues. Frontline also undertakes major research projects, and provides PR, consortia negotiation and data analysis. www.frontlinegms.com lis-e-resources is a UKSG list - http://www.uksg.org/serials UKSG groups also available on Facebook and LinkedIn