Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced that its RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) is now being used to simplify the management of Open Access (OA) agreements between publishers and over 800 institutions and funders in more than 40 countries. RLSC claims to be CCC’s market-leading, comprehensive scholarly communications workflow solution trusted by more than 30 leading publishers representing 2,400 journals.
Tens of thousands of OA institutional agreement funding requests have been processed using RightsLink since 2019. Institutions, consortia, and funders include: BIBSAM, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CzechELib, FinELib, FWF, Jisc, Max Planck, MIT, National Institutes of Health (NIH), SURF, and the University of California System/California Digital Library.
RLSC enables publishers, funders and institutions to support a variety of OA agreements, such as Read and Publish and Community Action Publishing, and accelerates the implementation of OA Membership deals. CCC recently announced expanded functionality for RightsLink, including a capability to inform authors of available OA publication funding throughout the manuscript lifecycle, starting with submission. CCC’s Open Access Workflow Services, a comprehensive consulting practice providing strategic OA institutional agreement workflow support, also helps organizations deliver on each agreement’s unique needs.
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