STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that it is partnering with non-profit copyright licensing solutions provider Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), US, to use the latter's Rightslink service. Rightslink is an online e-commerce service that allows content users to instantly license content and order reprints online.
The new reprint-ordering capability, available now, follows Elsevier's initial adoption of Rightslink in 2007 to handle copyright permissions for Elsevier's journals. Rightslink is in use on more than 11,000 journals, magazines and newspapers, as well as thousands of books online. In addition, Rightslink's real-time reporting capabilities provide publishers with a comprehensive view of licensing and reprint activity.
ScienceDirect and Elsevier's Health Sciences platforms deliver more than 9 million articles online from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals published in 24 fields of science, technology and medicine. More than 1 billion articles have been downloaded from the ScienceDirect and Health Sciences platforms by scientists, teachers and researchers.
The Rightslink service has established itself as the de facto industry standard among major publishers for online rights and permissions. Publishers that have selected Rightslink include Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis, O'Reilly Media, CMP Media, Reed Business Information, Oxford University Press, Nature Publishing Group, The University of Chicago Press, Dow Jones, The New York Times Company, Time Inc., and USA Today.
