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Seeing the Author as the Customer
Build or buy? Open Access (OA) publishing has brought with it so many new elements – new business models, new expertise related to Article Processing Charges (APCs), new relationships, and new support...
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Seven Steps to Help Your Authors Through the APC Maze
As Open Access has evolved, article processing charges (APCs) have become increasingly complex for authors to understand and manage. OA policies are now multi-dimensional, as funders, publishers and...
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To Buy or Not to Buy: Proprietary vs. Packaged APC Solutions
“Tools and standards are changing faster than companies can react,” warns McKinsey & Company in “Digitizing the Consumer Decision Journey.” In the field of Open Access publishing, this challenge is...
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Join CCC and Ixxus in Philadelphia for the STM U.S. Conference 2018 from April 24-26, where publishers and other stakeholders gather to collaboratively answer the question, “What can we do better,...
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As one game-changing tech-led disruption after another rocked the book trade, publishers raced to meet new opportunities (and new consumer expectations) generated by new ways of accessing content....
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It’s readily apparent that metadata is an essential part of scholarly publishing. So why do we let so much of this treasured commodity slip through our fingers over the course of the publication...
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As the year nears its end, Beyond the Book is looking back at the last twelve months of our programs. In this edition of our three-part review for 2018, CCC’s Chris Kenneally look at ways that...
View ArticleA Publishing Veteran Speaks on Rights and Brexit
As an entrepreneur in publishing, Richard Charkin had checked none of the usual boxes when he began his new venture – no business plan, no strategy, no list of authors and book titles committed to the...
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How Will Brexit Impact Scholarly Publishing?
The nature and even timing of Britain’s exit from the European Union remain unclear. Yet one can confidently predict that Brexit will mean dramatic changes for the UK’s scholarly publishing community....
View ArticleOverheard at SSP 2019
We’ve selected posts from across social media that capture the exciting conversations, insights, and connections created at the 41st SSP Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA from May 29-31. Here’s a...
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As another successful Special Libraries Association 2019 conference wraps up, it’s time for CCC’s annual look back at some of our favorite Tweet-sized insights from the show. This year’s show was aptly...
View ArticleAfrica Rising: An Interview with Lawrence Njagi
With a land mass bigger than China, India, the continental U.S., and most of Europe put together, the African continent is immensely rich in natural resources. And though it remains the world’s poorest...
View ArticleAfrican Publishers Explore Copyright at Africa Rising Summit
Copyright has been hard to ignore in Africa in recent weeks. It was one of the dominant themes on the agenda of the recent seminar organized in Kenya by the International Publishers Association (IPA),...
View ArticleA Half-Century of Resisting Censorship in American Libraries
In 1969, the American Library Association organized the Freedom to Read Foundation as a legal defense fund fighting censorship and other challenges to free speech. That same year, 250,000 protesters...
View ArticleRightsLink Author Release 19: Authentication improvements, reporting updates,...
June 2019 marks the debut of RightsLink Author’s Release 19. RightsLink Author is a sophisticated, industry-leading e-commerce platform facilitating the collection, management, and reporting of...
View ArticleReassessing the Print Book
What is a book? For centuries, books have existed in a form that has come to be universally recognized. Few of us ever bothered to give the book, either as object or idea, very much thought, any more...
View ArticleRightsLink for Scientific Communications October 2019 Release Supports...
The October 2019 release of RightsLink for Scientific Communications is focused on features and enhancements that align with our vision of a robust platform for supporting transformative agreements....
View ArticleA Rose is a Rose is a Rose – but Trademark is not Copyright is not Trademark
One thing there never seems to be a shortage of are news stories involving Intellectual Property (IP) violations. It seems like every other day there is a new story about someone who feels their IP...
View ArticleTop Ten Copyright Stories of 2019…and What to Expect in 2020
#1 EU Copyright Directive On April 15, the Council of the European Union approved the EU Copyright Directive, a broad set of reforms aimed at modernizing EU copyright rules as part of its Digital...
View ArticleNoah Webster, America’s First Copyright Lobbyist
In The Federalist #43, James Madison observed, regarding the patent and copyright clause in the U.S. Constitution, that in it “the public good fully coincides … with the claims of individuals.” Noah...
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