The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has chosen the RightsLink for Open Access platform from Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organisation, to handle Article Processing Charges (APCs) for Science Advances.
Science Advances, AAAS's first online, fully Open Access journal, features well-executed, important research across the entire range of scholarly pursuits, including computer, engineering, environmental life, mathematical, physical, and social sciences.
RightsLink for Open Access streamlines the entire author fee transaction for Open Access charges, page charges, colour charges, and more, giving publishers a robust pricing, discount and collections engine. It will work with AAAS's manuscript management and production systems through CCC's integration with Aries Systems' Editorial Manager, which allows scholarly publishers a seamless way to collect APCs from within the Editorial Manager workflow. This will provide AAAS's authors an easy-to-use platform for submitting publication charges.
As part of its commitment to educating the market on the latest Open Access news and trends, CCC recently launched an Open Access Resource Center in collaboration with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), linking to the latest Open Access news, reports, industry whitepapers, webinars and websites.
