YOUR GO-TO INTELLIGENCE RESOURCE FOR THE SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING INDUSTRY

Author: Andrew Robinson

Open Access (OA) publishing itself — as an organized, global initiative — is barely over 20 years old, as is (coincidentally) CCC’s RightsLink platform. Over the past decade, more than 30 scholarly publishers representing over 2600 journals have adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications to manage their OA article processing charges (APCs). During this time, the business models for APCs used in the industry have greatly evolved and expanded, creating significant complexity and change for publishers as well as for individual researchers, institutional librarians, and funders who each play a role in the APC workflow. Developed in close collaboration with these critical stakeholder groups, RightsLink has evolved from a simple transaction management tool to an advanced data and workflow solution. It is not too much to say that APCs and RightsLink co-evolved.

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