Throughout the past year, feedback from the scholarly publishing community was an essential component to enhancing CCC’s market-leading solutions to help publishers of all sizes.
Whether managing institutional agreements with RightsLink for Scientific Communications, improving data quality with Ringgold Solutions, or analyzing publication data with OA Intelligence, here is a look back at some key improvements and highlights for CCC’s Scholarly Communications Suite in 2023 resulting from our continuous collaboration with publishing partners.
RightsLink for Scientific Communications:
- Designed with smaller publishers in mind, the new RightsLink Starter edition allows users to post manuscripts to RightsLink without reliance on the submitting system or an additional API integration.
- Working closely with members of the ESAC Initiative, exciting enhancements were made to RLSC’s reporting and alert capabilities with a special focus on the needs of consortium administrators.
- CCC experienced another year of continued growth in authors publishing OA and institutions managing OA agreements with RLSC publishers.
OA Intelligence:
- New data import capabilities were added to support the import of publication data from subscriptions and non-RightsLink sources to further enhance the ability to analyze and compare various business scenarios.
- AI-enabled, affiliation-matching is combined with analytic capabilities to reliably disambiguate institution affiliation and funder relationships, thereby allowing publishers to build accurate, transparent institutional offers and easily structure and negotiate OA agreements.
Ringgold Solutions:
- Ringgold Solutions celebrated a number of milestones and accomplishments in 2023, which marked the 20th anniversary of the Ringgold Identify Database, CCC’s leading PID solution.
- 610,000+ Ringgold persistent identifiers and metadata records
- 100,000+ records updated in 2023
- 23,000+ new records added in 2023
- 32,400+ funder records with monthly updates and additions
- 99.6% of Ringgold PIDs have a corresponding ISNI ID
- Trusted by 80 publishers, intermediaries, and funders
- The latest data from Carnegie Classifications was added, including the 2021 data for the Basic and Size and Setting, enabling up-to-date pricing and size modeling for U.S. universities.
- Ringgold data quality was assessed over dozens of different metrics for completeness, consistency, currency, and continuous improvement, while also ensuring Ringgold data and metadata is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).
Learn more about how the CCC Scholarly Communications Suite can help publishers scale and optimize their transforming business models.