18th April 2011, Towcester, UK; Beaverton, Oregon and Crystal River,
Florida, USA.  The Consortium Directory Online (CDO), a collaboration
between Frontline GMS and Ringgold has now been launched and is available at
www.consortiumdirectory.com. 

It is the most comprehensive directory of the library consortium market
available.  

Features include:
. Search for consortia by region, country, name or acronym, subject
speciality, membership type and consortium type.
. Search and browse by institution and the products licensed.
. Analysis tools to determine market penetration and targets.
. Ringgold identifiers are used to cross-match institutions and the
publishers and vendors licensing information to the consortium.
. Each record includes full contact information, including key contacts for
licence negotiation.
. Each record lists members and publishers and vendors licensing to the
consortium.
. Export of records into Excel format or PDF.

As well as the above content and features, Gold subscribers can access the
following information:
. Electronic content acquisition policy
. Licensing information, including required licensing terms
. The structure of the consortium, its aims and objectives, key activities
and financial details
. Links to FTE data, member contacts and products acquired by each
institutional member
. Gold subscribers may also integrate the Consortium Directory with the
Ringgold database.

Laura Cox, Managing Director of Frontline said: "We are delighted to launch
the Directory Online, it will offer publishers and vendors an unrivalled
resource to fully understand the complex and constantly changing consortium
market.  The analytical tools available allow publishers and vendors to see
exactly what products the consortia are purchasing and compare vendor to
vendor. 

Helen Henderson, Ringgold's VP of Marketing, Research and Development said:
"This new consortium resource enhances the Ringgold Identify services for
any publisher, and substantially reduces the time taken to analyse the
consortium holdings in order to provide accurate quotations for site
licenses. For those publishers licensing the complete Identify database, the
complete integration of this resource with Ringgold Identifiers will provide
a valuable and competitive marketing opportunity. "

For further information, to arrange a live demonstration or for pricing,
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About Ringgold
More than 50 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. 

About Frontline
Frontline GMS was set up by Laura Cox in 2004 and provides sales and
marketing consultancy services to the academic and professional publishing
industry.  Frontline specialises in advising publishers, vendors and
intermediaries in several areas, specifically setting pricing and business
models, and using and analysing subscription, customer and usage data,
negotiating with library consortia, marketing strategy, and PR.  Frontline
also undertakes major research projects and market research and provides PR,
consortia negotiation and data analysis.

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