CCC’s Game-Changing Move in Africa: What This Strategic Collaboration Could Mean for the Continent’s Future Revealed
CCC’s persistent identifier (PID)-based solution, Ringgold, contains more than 750,000 records of global organisations engaged in scholarly research. Ringgold has been used by 80 publishers, service providers, and funders for more than 20 years. TCC Africa will use a subset of Ringgold organisation data within the Digital Object Container Identifier (DOCiD). CCC will incorporate updates to African institutions in the Ringgold database.
“CCC continues to support cross-stakeholder initiatives within the scholarly communications ecosystem,” said Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC. “This collaboration with TCC Africa demonstrates CCC’s commitment to backing initiatives that drive further adoption of PIDs, enable interoperability across internal and external systems, and provide researchers, librarians, organizations, and other users with the flexibility to select the identifier system(s) that best fit their needs.”
