Home Resource Library Insights Open Scholarly Publishing Solutions

Open Scholarly Publishing Solutions

We’ve pioneered a simple approach – creating solutions together. It means we work together as a community to explore the issues and find solutions that make things better for all.

The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023 Interactive Report

CCC and industry consulting firm Media Growth Strategies recently undertook a thorough examination of metadata management across the research lifecycle. Drawn from interviews with dozens of industry stakeholders, we created a visual report that depicts the significant economic and social impact that a fragmented metadata supply chain has on researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers on the journey to Open Access and beyond. Learn more >

Visual representation of "The State of Scholarly Metadata: 2023" study interface
The last few years have been full of change for the scholarly publishing community. We’ve seen the advancement of transformative institutional agreements under Plan S and other mandates, the embrace of open science and open data initiatives, not to mention the ongoing impact of the global pandemic.

Constant change, continuous innovation. Through partnerships, integrations, and support of cross-stakeholder initiatives in RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC), we support Open Access (OA) funding workflows that serve everyone in the community — publishers, institutions, funders, and authors. We’ve been an active partner in the evolution of hybrid and pure OA publishing models, working with publishers to put the author and institution experience first, and manage shared infrastructure in a scalable and sustainable way.

View our discussion from the 2022 Frankfurt Book Fair, “The Data Quality Imperative: Advancing the Scholarly Publishing Ecosystem” >

The CCC, RightsLink and Open Access Journey

A community driven journey to creating a customer-centric solution for Open Scholarly Research infrastructure in a scalable and sustainable way.

RightsLink for Scientific Communications: Publisher, Author, Funder and Institution Growth

RLSC was designed as a shared platform to help facilitate trust, transparency, and efficiency across all OA stakeholders including publishers, authors, institutions, and funders. The map below reflects the growth in authors publishing OA and in institutions managing OA agreements with RLSC publishers since 2018.

Tooltip

Read the Velocity of Content blog for the latest on OA trends and how CCC is listening to and supporting the scholarly publishing community

Hear from the OA community on our Velocity of Content podcast series

Podcast

A New Chapter for Open Access Publishing

As one of the world’s leading open access publishers, PLOS has led the way for two decades in developing business models that make even its most selective open access...
Podcast

CCC’s Senior Director, Information and Content Solutions, Jamie Carmichael on The INSPIRING STEM Podcast

A call to action for the scholarly publishing community.
Podcast

Transformative Models for Scholarly Publishing

Building a strategy to automate and manage “transformative agreements” for OA publishing.
Podcast

Global Outlook for Open Access

Nothing in our lives today is untouched by the coronavirus pandemic. The endeavor of scientific publishing is arguably affected even more than most.

View our webcasts featuring key opinion leaders and subject matter experts from the OA community

Put our solutions to work for your organization

Software

RightsLink for Scientific Communications

Simplify OA management with flexible workflows to accommodate both single payments and consolidated funding through OA agreements
Software

OA Intelligence

Disambiguate, model, and analyze publication data with sophisticated, AI-enabled affiliation matching technology
Services

Ringgold Solutions

Improve the quality of organization data with the leading PID solution trusted by 80 publishers, intermediaries, and funders for 20 years
Services

RightsLink Author Services

Protect and strengthen relationships with influential and emerging authors

Event participation

  • Frankfurt Book Fair 2023

    CCC will be present at the world's largest trade fair for books, participating as a member of the open scholarly publishing community.
    Register here

  • Society for Scholarly Publishing Annual Meeting 2023

    CCC will join the greater SSP community of academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, and others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information.
    Read blog

  • London Book Fair 2023

    As part of the London Book Fair’s Research & Scholarly Publishing Forum, CCC presented, “Reading the Data Compass: The guiding role of metadata in an increasingly complex scholarly research ecosystem.” Moderated by Christopher Kenneally, Senior Director, Marketing for CCC, panelists included Daniel Shanahan, Publishing Director, PLOS; Dr José Francisco Salm Junior, PhD, Professor, UDESC-ULisbon; and Matt Cannon, Head of Open Research for Taylor & Francis.
    View the recording

  • Researcher to Reader Conference 2023

    CCC’s Christopher Kenneally moderated a panel of industry experts, including CCC’s Executive Director Michael Healy, that addressed metadata management and how proper application of quality data can open a 360-degree-view of the research ecosystem to address important concerns of sustainability, compliance, and access.
    View the recording

  • NISO Plus 2023

    In the transformative drive toward open access and, ultimately, open science, stakeholders in the global research ecosystem are generating more data and more metadata than ever before.
    View the recording

View Calendar of events

Learn more

Ringgold Solutions

Leveraging persistent identifiers (PIDs) to improve data quality, drive strategic decision making and support data interoperability. Learn more about Ringgold Solutions.

Let’s talk.

Learn more about CCC’s Open Scholarly Publishing Solutions

Speak to our team