Leverage Trusted Data About Research Funders to Improve Operational Efficiency and Enable More Accurate Reporting

September 9, 2026 – Danvers, Mass. – CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), a pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, today announced the availability of funder data within Ringgold Organizations, the leading PID solution for organization data used by 80 publishers, service providers, and funders. By adding more than 21,000 funder records, including a new unique and persistent Ringgold Funder ID, funder hierarchies, and additional funder metadata, Ringgold Organizations now offers customers the ability to:

• Reduce manual reconciliation with standardized, high-quality funder records.
• Integrate more accurate funder data to improve publishing workflows.
• Unlock insights into the funding landscape to identify risks and uncover new opportunities.

With over 776,000 organization records, each with a unique Ringgold ID, rich hierarchies, and dozens of descriptive metadata elements, Ringgold Organizations helps publishers normalize and disambiguate organization data more efficiently and accurately. It is the only solution to leverage structured organization hierarchies and consortium associations to describe complex relationships among parties in the scholarly communications ecosystem.

“Ringgold Organizations has been expanded to help customers analyze the funding landscape with confidence and model the impact of funding changes,” said Emily Sheahan, Vice President and Managing Director, CCC. “It now provides standardized funder data that stakeholders can rely on. It reduces manual effort, improves the quality of funder data in publishing workflows, and helps produce reporting you can trust.”

Ringgold is part of the CCC Scholarly Communications Suite, which supports publishers in automating their evolving publishing models with a suite of data-driven solutions, including RightsLink for Scientific Communications, OA Intelligence, and RightsLink Author Services. This combination of industry-leading solutions helps publishers normalize and disambiguate data, enrich datasets, accelerate deal modeling, reliably manage APCs and OA agreements, and diversify their portfolio in a changing publishing landscape.

CCC advocates for copyright worldwide by engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals through educational programming and resources from copyright organizations, with an emphasis on AI, Copyright & Licensing. CCC’s non-exclusive voluntary collective rights licensing solutions include ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, AI Systems Training License, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides software solutions with integrated, one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permission to reuse content.