PSI is an independent company, which enables libraries, publishers and membership societies to work together securely and confidentially towards the common goals of facilitating legitimate access to scholarly content, providing reliable data through the interrogation of IP addresses, and working towards the long term sustainability of open access publishing.
PSI is the developer of theIPregistry.org which is a fully auditable source of reliable data that has become central to the to the process of access authentication within the scholarly communications industry. Additional services available through PSI include; Touchstone and the Due Diligence Bureau.
theIPregistry.org is the only registry that checks and verifies IP addresses to eliminate the errors that commonly occur. With theIPregistry.org publishers and libraries can save time and streamline processes, eliminate errors, improve the reliability of usage metrics, and ensure the right content is accessible to the right users.
Touchstone can provide near-real time, accurate and auditable usage metrics, drilled down to the exact organisations that are accessing your content (in partnership with LibLynx).
Our Due Diligence Bureau service helps publishers to demonstrate compliance with anti-bribery legislation – a legal requirement for all publishers and societies. Publishers can also demonstrate observance of Article 4 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
For more information visit https://www.psiregistry.org/
