Scholastica, a software and service provider for academic journals, has announced that journals using its peer review system now have the option to integrate with RightsLink® for Scientific Communications (RLSC), Copyright Clearance Center's (CCC) scholarly communications workflow solution. The integration will enable journals to manage Open Access (OA) publication charges.
With the new integration, publishers who use RLSC can seamlessly initiate payment for OA journal article processing charges from Scholastica's peer review system at the time that articles are accepted for publication. Scholastica is also building out its metadata support to enable publishers to leverage RLSC's broad range of transformative agreement workflows and sophisticated rules engine for author discounts.
Scholastica introduced the RightsLink integration, which is available to journals using its peer review system at no additional cost, to better support a range of fully-OA journal publishing models. The integration is part of Scholastica's efforts to enable academic publishers of any size to publish OA titles and run journal programs at the highest professional and technical level possible – while keeping costs as low as possible. Scholastica is working to help all journals using its peer review system, typesetting service, and OA publishing platform to meet core standards and follow the available Plan S compliance routes if they choose.
RLSC has become the market standard for OA funding workflows, used by more than 30 leading publishers to process article charges for over 2,400 journals and provide support to thousands of authors in more than 125 countries. Nearly a dozen of these publishers use RightsLink to manage OA agreements with over 400 institutions and funders across 40 countries to accelerate their OA business model transformation. RightsLink has a powerful and flexible rules engine that helps publishers codify and implement OA agreements and trigger appropriate touch-free or author/institution-mediated workflows. Because RightsLink is used by so many of the world's top publishers, CCC brings a broad and advanced set of capabilities to all publishers, funders, institutions, and authors using the RightsLink platform.
CCC encourages engagement across boundaries through an ongoing series of roundtables, panel events, webinars, podcasts, and blogs. CCC is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), the International Association of STM Publishers (STM), and a Sustaining Member of the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP).
The new Scholastica RightsLink integration is available to any journal using Scholastica's peer review system that has a CCC RightsLink account. More information for those publishers interested in setting up a RightsLink integration can be found at https://scholasticahq.com/contact.
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