CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has surpassed 1,000 institutions and funders on its RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) platform.
RLSC is the most widely adopted, community-led market solution to support Open Access (OA) agreements. It is trusted by more than 30 leading publishers representing over 2,600 journals to simplify the management of OA agreements among publishers, institutions and funders in more than 60 countries.
With over 1,000 institutions and funders in the network, RLSC can quickly enable a comprehensive range of transformative deals, pure OA agreements, membership discounts, and other financial arrangements between publishers and customers, providing real-time transaction data for all parties.
CCC is an active partner in the information industry’s evolution of hybrid and pure OA publishing models. For years, CCC has brought together key OA stakeholders from the author, publisher, institution, funding, and vendor communities through roundtables, panel events, webinars, and podcasts. CCC is a member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association), ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers), STM (International Association of STM Publishers) and SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing).
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