Top Places to Work recognizes the most admired workplaces in the state voted on by employees. The survey measures employee opinions about company direction, execution, connection, management, work, pay and benefits, and engagement. Employers are placed into one of four groups: small, with 50-99 employees; medium, with 100-249 workers; large, with 250-999; and largest, with 1,000 or more. The rankings in Top Places to Work are based on confidential information collected by Energage, an independent company specializing in employee engagement and retention, from more than 137k individuals at 347 Massachusetts organizations.

“The best employers are always striving to put their people first, whether they’re honoring small individual accomplishments or adjusting company-wide policies to become more inclusive,” said Katie Johnston, the Globe’s Top Places to Work editor.”

“CCC is honored to have been named a Top Place to Work in Massachusetts based on the votes from our team members for the third year in a row,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “As we have grown as an organization we continue to learn together, innovate together, and strive to maintain an inclusive, people-first environment, where we emphasize the importance of community and the difference that together, we can make in the world.”

CCC remains committed to continuous improvement in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) workplace. CCC’s DEI Employee Resource Group launched a pilot Girls Who Code team at the elementary school level in 2023 and piloted the first chapter north of Boston last year. Its speaker series most recently hosted Dr. Kenann McKenzie-DeFranza talking about the importance of listening to understand each other, our customers, and our communities. CCC is a member of the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC), whose mission is to accelerate innovation, growth, and development of an inclusive tech ecosystem in Massachusetts through STEM pipeline initiatives, talent development, leadership, and advocacy. CCC is a member of the North Shore Juneteenth Association, an emerging 501 (c)(3) organization of community leaders creating awareness about Juneteenth, educating the community about positive aspects of Black American culture, and dismantling racism by using events and programming as tools of change.  

In 2023, CCC was named to the Women’s Edge and Boston Globe Magazine’s Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts list and received a 2023 Top Workplaces USA national award.  Last year, CCC earned several Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards for Employee Appreciation, Employee Well-Being, Professional Development, Compensation & Benefits, Leadership, Work-Life Flexibility, and being Women-Led. Armstrong was recently featured on the Forbes 2023 “50 Over 50” list.

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For each organization on the list, The Women’s Edge examined revenue or operating budget as well as other variables, including number of full-time employees in Massachusetts, workplace and management diversity, and innovative projects. The Women’s Edge then ranked organizations according to its own formula. This is the 23^rd year that The Women’s Edge has created the list and the 11^th year that the Boston Globe has partnered with the group.

“CCC is honored to be included once again on this list of remarkable women-led companies,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “It is energizing to be part of the community of leaders The Women’s Edge has brought together and to engage with many women on CCC’s team who are benefitting from leadership and talent development programs they offer.”

CCC remains committed to continuous improvement in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) workplace. CCC’s DEI Employee Resource Group has developed an internship program with students from Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago, and launched a pilot Girls Who Code program at a local school. CCC is a member of the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC), whose mission is to accelerate innovation, growth, and development of an inclusive tech ecosystem in Massachusetts through STEM pipeline initiatives, talent development, leadership, and advocacy. CCC is a member of the North Shore Juneteenth Association, an emerging 501 (c)(3) organization of community leaders creating awareness about Juneteenth, educating the community about positive aspects of Black American culture, and dismantling racism by using events and programming as tools of change.

CCC received a 2023 Top Workplaces USA national award and was named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe. Last year, CCC earned several Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards for Employee Appreciation, Employee Well-Being, Professional Development, Compensation & Benefits, Leadership, Work-Life Flexibility, and being Women-Led. Armstrong was recently named to Forbes 2023 “50 Over 50” list.

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RightFind Navigate customers already find information about U.S. clinical trials through the connector to ClinicalTrials.gov. The new connector expands users’ access to this data from around the world.

“Researchers need easier ways to access the latest clinical evidence and identify trends within the data for a multitude of use cases across the drug development lifecycle,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “Typically, researchers visit multiple clinical trial websites to find information, then manually collect the data. The Clinical Trial Registries Data Connector in RightFind Navigate brings together data from multiple clinical trial registries with other types of content, including scientific literature, to enable knowledge workers to find and explore the information they need in one place.”

RightFind Navigate is part of the RightFind Suite, which provides a single, integrated, and scalable solution to meet the evolving needs of today’s research organizations. RightFind Navigate unifies searching across multiple licensed content sources, publicly available data, and internal proprietary content, empowering researchers to reveal connections and drive innovation. The solution provides a flexible, scalable, open ecosystem designed to maximize an organizations’ return on their content and data investments.

CCC recently announced the availability of AI-disambiguated data and enriched metadata within RightFind Navigate, making it easier for users to identify key researchers and institutions. Other powerful new features of the RightFind Suite that were recently released include the ability for researchers and information managers to:

• Manage references when working in Microsoft PowerPoint, in addition to the reference management support for Microsoft Word
• Insert citations in both Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word based on tags
• Connect to new information sources, connectors for ChemRxiv and Google drives, as well as a beta for Company News
• Create best-in-class analytics for content usage reported via RightFind, including COUNTER data, as well as non-COUNTER reports
• Tailor search alerts to meet their unique needs

CCC helps companies manage vast amounts of published content and proprietary internal information and data. As experts in processing data from thousands of sources across a diverse set of industries, CCC has established a proven record of working with a wide range of companies, including content providers and technology partners, to unify data sources and make content more discoverable.

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CCC US-based staff collaborated with colleagues in various parts of the country including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Oregon, Washington, and California, serving meals, enhancing green spaces, and building affordable homes. Other activities included organizing donations for children in need of clothing, helping therapeutic centers for children and adults with physical, cognitive, and emotional challenges, and assisting a bookstore that is helping young adults rebuild their lives while learning to run a business. Colleagues in the UK made repairs to Acacia Adventure Playground, which provides a safe play space for children. Team members in Romania volunteered to help Cluj charity Asociatia ACASA build affordable, accessible housing for families.

CCC colleagues based in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Romania, Germany, and Finland put on their ‘We Not Me’ t-shirts and walked in support of hospice organizations around the world, honoring the memories of family members, friends, and colleagues. For every team member who participated, CCC is donating to hospice organizations in their communities, including the annual Care Dimensions Walk for Hospice.

Since 2019, hundreds of CCC employees have volunteered on behalf of more than 25 charities around the globe, serving economically disadvantaged persons, assisting victims of domestic violence, feeding the hungry, helping people with cognitive challenges, working in support of environmental causes, and much more.

“Our work in service of our clients, and those in our communities, is important,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “At CCC, we view this social responsibility as essential. Our We Not Me program empowers CCC team members to contribute to and build stronger communities collectively with their colleagues in a continuous program that is integrated in the workplace.”

CCC remains committed to continuous improvement in creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive (DEI) workplace. CCC’s DEI Employee Resource Group has developed an internship program with students from Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago, and launched a pilot Girls Who Code program at a local school. CCC is a member of the Mass Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC), whose mission is to accelerate innovation, growth, and development of an inclusive tech ecosystem in Massachusetts through STEM pipeline initiatives, talent development, leadership, and advocacy. CCC is a member of the North Shore Juneteenth Association, an emerging 501 (c)(3) organization of community leaders creating awareness about Juneteenth, educating the community about positive aspects of Black American culture, and dismantling racism by using events and programming as tools of change.

CCC received a 2023 Top Workplaces USA national award and was named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe. CCC was also included in the Globe’s Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts list. Last year, CCC earned several Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards for Employee Appreciation, Employee Well-Being, Professional Development, Compensation & Benefits, Leadership, Work-Life Flexibility, and being Women-Led. Armstrong was recently named to Forbes 2023 “50 Over 50” list.

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Palmer is an accomplished marketing and sales leader with more than two decades of experience working for software and service providers helping scholarly publishers, research-driven organizations, and knowledge workers that rely on Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) information.

Prior to joining CCC, Palmer served as Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at PubHive, a cloud-based software company. Previously, he was VP of Sales and Marketing at DeepDyve, Pharmaceutical Solutions Director at QxMD Software until the company’s acquisition by WebMD, and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Reprints Desk and Research Solutions.

“Ian has substantial expertise in driving market creation and demand through research-driven positioning and branding, full-funnel marketing management, plus data and analytics-driven decision making,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “We look forward to his contributions as CCC continues to develop solutions that foster high data quality, integrate data silos, and create licensing solutions enabling the use of copyrighted materials as society realizes the benefits promised by AI systems.”

“I am thrilled to join the executive management team at CCC during such a pivotal time within the knowledge economy,” said Palmer. “CCC has always been a leader in removing friction in the intellectual property lifecycle for organizations that create, protect, and rely on copyrighted works to grow their businesses, and I look forward to our ongoing contributions.”

CCC recently received a 2023 Top Workplaces USA national award and was named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe. CCC was also included in the Globe’s Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts list. Last year, CCC earned several Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards for Employee Appreciation, Employee Well-Being, Professional Development, Compensation & Benefits, Leadership, Work-Life Flexibility, and being Women-Led. Armstrong was named to Forbes 2023 “50 Over 50” list.

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Campbell was most recently Senior Director, Global Sales Partnerships at John Wiley & Sons, where he led teams responsible for licensing and business development, agent relations, collective rights management, and permissions across the range of Wiley’s academic journal and database content.

Campbell is vice-chair of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) Policy Committee, and a non-executive director of Seren Books, a literary publisher based in Wales. He was previously co-chair of the CLOCKSS digital archive, a not-for-profit joint venture between the world’s leading academic publishers and research libraries, as well as a board member at the International Publishers’ Rights Organization (IPRO), the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) and Crossref.

“Duncan joins CCC at a pivotal moment for the information industry,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “We look forward to his contributions as CCC advocates for market-based licensing solutions around the world, including at the intersection of copyright and artificial intelligence.”

“I’m delighted to be joining CCC during such an exciting time for the publishing industry,” said Campbell. “It’s a fantastic opportunity to collaborate with the publishing community in driving creativity and delivering innovative and transformative products and services.”

CCC recently received a 2023 Top Workplaces USA national award and was named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Globe. CCC was also included in the Globe’s Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts list. Last year, CCC earned several Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards for Employee Appreciation, Employee Well-Being, Professional Development, Compensation & Benefits, Leadership, Work-Life Flexibility, and being Women-Led. CEO Tracey Armstrong was named to Forbes 2023 “50 Over 50” list.

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OA Agreement Intelligence supports the import of publication data from subscriptions and non-RightsLink sources to further enhance the capability to analyze and compare various business scenarios. The solution combines sophisticated, AI-enabled, affiliation-matching technology and analytic capabilities, to reliably disambiguate institution affiliation and funder relationships. This empowers publishers to easily structure and negotiate OA agreements.

“With CCC’s expertise in OA workflow, agreement modeling, and affiliation disambiguation, we are uniquely positioned to help publishers scale their agreement program and optimize their results with partners through a seamless, data-driven agreement modeling tool,” said Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC. “These new capabilities enable publishers to import publication data – both open and subscription – and easily keep it up to date regardless of which APC or publication platforms they use.”

CCC is an active partner in the evolution of 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).

CCC will showcase its new agreement modeling capabilities at the Frankfurt Book Fair. In addition to highlighting OA Agreement Intelligence’s features, CCC will join other conversations about AI during the Frankfurt Book Fair at the following events:

• AI Solutions: Trained with Your Content at the Frankfurt Studio – Public Events (Foyer, Hall 4.0) on 19 October 1:00pm – 2:00pm CEST. The Large Language Models (LLMs) that are fundamental to generative AI solutions, including ChatGPT from OpenAI, rely on machine-readable content available on the web. Whether that material is taken from books, scholarly journals, or other curated publications protected by copyright, permission and licensing may be necessary. Should AI be trained with your content with or without your consent? Court decisions, regulation, and legislation will ultimately create the legal guardrails for protecting copyrighted content from unchecked infringement. In the meantime, debate over any limits to be placed on training LLMs must address concerns over equity, transparency, and authenticity.

• Roy Kaufman, CCC Managing Director Business Development and Government Relations will be speaking at the Scholarly Kitchen panel on “AI and Its Impact on OA” at the Frankfurt Studio – Professional Programme (Foyer, Hall 4.0) on 19 October noon – 1:00pm CEST.

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CCC’s Vice President, General Counsel Catherine Zaller Rowland and a panel of legal experts including Prof. Daniel Gervais, Bruce Rich, and Carlo Scollo Lavizarri will discuss how voluntary collective licensing can enable the use of large collections of copyrighted materials, and why AI technology providers must address important concerns about copyright, equity, transparency, and authenticity.

“Copyrighted material is fuel for AI systems,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “Voluntary collective licensing is an effective solution enabling the use of copyrighted material as society realizes the benefits promised by AI systems.”

Generative AI is set to add up to $4.4 trillion of value to the global economy annually, according to a report from McKinsey Global Institute published in June. The adoption of AI technology is rapidly growing across industries and the training of these systems requires access to vast amounts of data, including copyrighted content.

“CCC is collaborating with stakeholders, including rightsholders and users, to develop market-based licensing solutions while we advocate for responsible policies that respect copyright,” said Armstrong.

In addition to the Town Hall, CCC recently launched the dedicated AI resource page, Intersection of AI & Copyright, which includes Prof. Gervais’ paper, “Collective Licensing and AI” and Rich’s essay in CCC’s eBook Creating Solutions Together: Lessons to Inform the Future of Collective Licensing.

CCC frequently convenes expert panels to explore complex and important topics in the world of research, publishing, and media. In September, CCC co-hosted a forum on building AI strategies with FAIR Data in partnership with the GO FAIR Foundation in the Netherlands. Recent CCC Town Hall events included Information Integrity & ChatGPT, which explored the evolving nature of originality and authenticity in a world of AI and discussed the rapid growth of generative AI tools; and Making Research Data FAIR, which focused on the development of research data that is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) through culture, training, and technology and which drives confidence in science on four continents.

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Pharmaceutical and life science companies are dealing with tremendous growth in available information and an increasingly diverse range of sources that make it challenging to maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding on key research advancements. RightFind Navigate’s machine-learning driven semantic enrichment and advanced personalization features help users locate the most relevant information in scientific literature, clinical trials, patents, and many other sources. This pilot expands the data intelligence already available in RightFind Navigate with the introduction of disambiguated researcher and institution profiles.

RightFind Navigate is part of the RightFind Suite, which provides a single integrated and scalable solution to meet the evolving needs of today’s research organizations. RightFind Navigate unifies searching across multiple licensed content sources, publicly available data, and internal proprietary content, empowering researchers to reveal connections and drive innovation. The solution provides a flexible, scalable, open ecosystem designed to maximize an organizations’ return on their content and data investments.

“Many of our RightFind customers already enjoy the benefits of semantic search and the breadth of information sources that are available in RightFind Navigate,” said Tracey Armstrong, President and CEO, CCC. “We are excited to pilot the introduction of research and institution profiles that allow users to see the web of connections between the various entities engaged in a particular research field, whether these are researchers in corporations or in academia, and with whom they are affiliated.”

In 2023, CCC introduced a range of powerful new features to its RightFind Suite, including the ability for researchers and information managers to:

• Manage references when working in Microsoft PowerPoint; in addition to the reference management support for Microsoft Word
• Insert citations in both Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word based on tags
• Connect to new information sources, including a new Clinical Trials connector, connectors for chemRxiv and Google drives, as well as a beta for Company News
• Create best-in-class analytics for content usage reported via RightFind, including COUNTER data, as well as non-COUNTER reports
• Tailor search alerts to meet their unique needs

CCC helps companies manage vast amounts of published content and proprietary internal information and data. CCC has established a proven record of working with a wide range of companies, including content providers and technology partners, to unify data sources and make content more discoverable. The CCC team are experts in processing data from thousands of sources across a diverse set of industries.

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With over 600,000 Ringgold PIDs and metadata records, the Ringgold Identify Database provides a curated view of organization data to help stakeholders improve data quality, drive strategic decision-making, and support data interoperability across the scholarly communications ecosystem. Used by intermediaries, funders, institutions, and a growing list of leading publishers, the Ringgold Identify Database is the only solution to offer structured organizational hierarchies and consortia connections to help stakeholders quickly understand complex relationships. The Ringgold Identify Database includes rich metadata and additional identifiers, including the ISNI ID, an open ISO standard to support wider interoperability.

“Before adopting the Ringgold Identify Database, our team spent far too much time going back and forth with the institution curation and validation to make sure we had accurate data,” said Andrei Jigman, Lead Product Manager, Frontiers. “We selected Ringgold above all other PID options because its comprehensive and curated data set is critical in reducing our administrative burden while improving service to our researchers.”

“Data quality is vitally important to innovative publishers like Frontiers,” said Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC. “Access to a professionally curated, granular dataset to identify organizational relationships—and therefore accurately identify funding entitlements—is a strategic priority for publishers committed to sustainable, equitable, and transparent OA publishing models.”

Since its acquisition of Ringgold, CCC has become a leading provider of PIDs for organizations that participate in the scholarly communications ecosystem. CCC relies on Ringgold identifiers to disambiguate author affiliations related to Article Processing Charges (APCs) managed through RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC).

CCC is a long-time supporter of the creation, development, and proliferation of identifiers. The acquisition of Ringgold reflects CCC’s ongoing commitment to promoting data interoperability, addressing market friction, and collaborating with stakeholders like Frontiers to create solutions together.

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