Copyright Clearance Center: The (Rights)Link Between Simplicity & Growth: What Publishers Need from OA Workflows Today

In 2014, CCC introduced RightsLink for Scientific Communications in response to industry challenges in operationalizing open access. Since then, RightsLink has grown in capability and impact due to the collective contributions of publishers, institutions/consortia, authors, research funders, and service providers. This common platform is trusted by dozens of society publishers and thousands of global academic institutions to remove friction and cost from the process of publishing open literature.

The RightsLink product team will share examples of how they monitor market shifts and act on customer feedback to help publishers seeking to simplify OA workflows for authors and deliver on the terms of their agreements with institutions. They will highlight RightsLink’s key functionalities – automated agreement management, touch-free author workflows, localized billing and payment in China, affiliation disambiguation, and deal modeling tools – how they came to fruition, and how they continue to evolve to support a mixed-model OA landscape.