The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), has adopted CCC RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to manage its growing OA program.
RLSC makes it easy for scholarly publishers of all sizes to automate and scale OA institutional agreements and collect publication charges. It is the most widely-adopted, community-led market solution that simplifies OA agreement administration for publishers, funders, institutions, and authors. With more than 1,500 institutions and funders using the cross-publisher platform to manage funding requests, RLSC supports a comprehensive range of transformative deals, pure OA agreements, membership discounts, and other financial arrangements between publishers and institutions, providing real-time transaction data for all stakeholders.
“RightsLink for Scientific Communications supports OA programs with flexible workflows that fit the unique business models of all stakeholders,” said Roy Kaufman, Managing Director, Business Development and Government Relations, CCC. “Transparent, flexible, and highly scalable technology-based solutions are more important than ever, particularly in light of the recent White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) guidance which will serve to accelerate the publishing of OA articles resulting from federally funded research.”
CCC is an active partner in the evolution of hybrid and pure OA publishing models. For years, CCC has brought together key OA stakeholders from the author, publisher, institution, funding, and vendor communities through roundtables, panel events, webinars, and podcasts. CCC is a member of OASPA (Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association), ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers), STM (International Association of STM Publishers) and SSP (Society for Scholarly Publishing).