Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC) has announced that the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) has implemented CCC’s RightsLink® Author, the industry-leading solution for managing Open Access and related publication charges. PNAS, one of the world’s most-cited and comprehensive multidisciplinary scientific journals, now has the ability to facilitate easy payments of fees for pages, Open Access, and author reprints. The RightsLink Author platform is seamlessly integrated with Sheridan Journal Services and eJournalPress (EJP).
RightsLink Author offers publishers of all sizes immediate access to the sophisticated software infrastructure and staff expertise needed to simplify the collection and management of publication charges. It delivers a shared platform with common workflows for thousands of authors and dozens of institutions already working with other RightsLink client publishers.
RightsLink Author supports publishers and their customers with a world-class, trusted solution that offers: Author-centric workflow that leverages standard author, institution, and manuscript
metadata to easily accommodate individual, consortium-level, and national-level deals; automated billing payable in seven currencies by credit card, wire, check, or money order; seamless integration with customers’ current technology ecosystems, including manuscript management, production, finance, and membership systems; dynamic pricing and discount rules at the publisher, journal, or article-type level; detailed reporting for all parties in real time from a central source; global, award-winning customer service available by email, phone, and live chat; and continuous updates and platform enhancements.
CCC is an active partner in the information industry’s transition from subscription content to
hybrid and pure Open Access content. For years CCC has brought together key Open Access
stakeholders from the author, publisher, institution, funding and vendor communities through roundtables, panel events, webinars, podcasts, and published pieces. CCC is a member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association), ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers) and SSP (Society of Scholarly Publishing).
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