Affirms support for authors, institutions, and funders with data
driven workflows

DANVERS, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Copyright

(CCC), a leader in advancing copyright,

accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced that

the

American

(ACS), the world’s largest scientific society and a

leading source of authoritative scientific information, has

significantly expanded its investment in the RightsLink Author platform

with the addition of

OA

Agreement Manager

.

With OA Agreement Manager, ACS gains the ability to streamline and

automate OA funding requests and consortia deals using manuscript and

agreement metadata. For ACS, a particular draw has been the OA Agreement

Manager’s ability to handle subscription offsets, sometimes referred to

as APC tokens or waivers. Supporting many different types of offsetting

arrangements, the OA Agreement Manager makes it possible for publishers

to honor their institutional agreements and minimize work for all

stakeholders. The scalability of the CCC solution will help ACS drive

down administrative costs for all stakeholders while supporting its

customers through new open access business models.

“I am pleased with how closely CCC has worked with both publishers and

institutions to address many of the problems first encountered with

managing OA transactions and approvals,” said Brandon Nordin, Senior

Vice President, Marketing, Sales Product Innovation, ACS. “The

platform uses rule-based automation to cut down the administrative

overheads and costs, and most crucially, as the OA model scales, reduces

the time and author interactions required for publication and

compliance. In addition, CCC’s OA Agreement Manager offers institutional

funders standardized workflows, normalized metadata, and cross-publisher

reporting to give approvers an unparalleled view of their OA activity.”

OA Manager provides institutions and funders with early notifications of

accepted manuscripts and an online dashboard enriched with information

necessary for prompt approval of funding requests, increasing awareness

throughout the publication lifecycle. Authors benefit directly from an

automated, rules-driven workflow that removes common obstacles related

to their funders’ licensing, billing and tax requirements. Additionally,

single-source, detailed reporting increases transparency for all parties.

“ACS is an internationally recognized leader in the STM publishing

space, and we are proud to be an innovation partner as they expand their

open access business and create country and consortia-based workflows,”

said Gretchen Gasser-Ellis, Vice President and Managing Director, CCC.

“Together, we’re building a common infrastructure for open access and

scholarly publishing more broadly.”

CCC is an active partner in the information industry’s transition from

subscription content to hybrid and pure open access content. The company

has built the leading industry solution for managing open access and

related publication charges. For years it 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) and ALPSP

(Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers).

For more information, please visit http://www.copyright.com/rightsholders/rightslink-author/ .

ABOUT COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTER

Copyright Clearance Center

(CCC) builds unique solutions that connect content and rights in

contextually relevant ways through software and professional services.

CCC helps people navigate vast amounts of data to discover actionable

insights, enabling them to innovate and make informed decisions. CCC,

with its subsidiaries RightsDirect and Ixxus ,

collaborates with customers to advance how data and information is

integrated, accessed, and shared while setting the standard for

effective copyright solutions that accelerate knowledge and power

innovation. CCC is headquartered in Danvers, Mass. and has offices

across North America, Europe and Asia. To learn more about CCC, visit www.copyright.com .

Contacts

fama PR for CCC

Allison Stokes, 617-986-5010

copyright@famapr.com

or

Craig

Sender, 978-646-2605

Director, Public Relations

csender@copyright.com

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