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Business Wire
30-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
CCC and the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) Team Up to Improve Identification of African Institutions Driving Innovation in Scholarly Research
DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, has announced a strategic collaboration agreement with the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) to support the identification of organization affiliations to help improve the tracking of research output from African institutions. This collaboration with TCC Africa demonstrates CCC's commitment to backing initiatives that drive further adoption of PIDs and enable interoperability across internal and external systems. Share TCC Africa's Open Infrastructure program includes the Africa PID Alliance, whose mission is to secure the future of African innovation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural heritage. It supports scientists and inventors in disseminating and commercializing their research innovations. CCC's leading persistent identifier (PID)-based solution, Ringgold, contains more than 750,000 records of global organizations engaged in scholarly research. Ringgold has been trusted by 80 publishers, service providers, and funders for more than 20 years. TCC Africa will use a subset of Ringgold organization data within the Digital Object Container Identifier (DOCiD). CCC will incorporate updates to African institutions in the Ringgold database. 'CCC continues to support cross-stakeholder initiatives within the scholarly communications ecosystem,' said Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC. 'This collaboration with TCC Africa demonstrates CCC's commitment to backing initiatives that drive further adoption of PIDs, enable interoperability across internal and external systems, and provide researchers, librarians, organizations, and other users with the flexibility to select the identifier system(s) that best fit their needs.' 'DOCID™ was created to ensure African research outputs, especially indigenous and cultural heritage knowledge, are accurately attributed and contextually grounded,' said Joy Owango, Project Lead at the Africa PID Alliance. 'Integrating Ringgold data through this collaboration with CCC strengthens that mission, positioning African scholarship and innovation more visibly within global knowledge systems.' CCC advocates for copyright worldwide by engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals with educational programming and thought leadership resources. The organization also maintains an online hub, AI, Copyright & Licensing, which features informational resources for creators, publishers, rightsholders, technologists, media representatives, policymakers, intellectual property attorneys, and others. Since 1978, CCC has supported content users by providing efficient, harmonized licensing solutions for their internal content uses. CCC's non-exclusive voluntary collective licensing solutions include ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, ACL for Curriculum & Instruction, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permissions to re-use content. About CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) A pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, CCC has been dedicated to advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation since its inception in 1978. Today, CCC supports a thriving knowledge economy as a trusted intermediary, providing licensing solutions that make copyright work, including collective licensing solutions for the use of copyrighted materials with AI systems. CCC also offers a portfolio of innovative and complementary software solutions, as well as high-quality content, data, and information services. About the Africa PID Alliance The Africa PID Alliance is the Open Infrastructure program of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa), dedicated to securing the future of African innovation, indigenous knowledge, and cultural heritage. It provides trusted open research infrastructure services that enhance access to knowledge and metadata about digital objects, with a strong focus on Africa's unique contributions to global research.
Business Wire
15-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
CCC Introduces Expanded RightsLink Author Services for Scholarly Publishers
DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, is expanding RightsLink Author Services to provide scholarly publishers with a streamlined way to automate and trigger targeted promotional offers and publication charges for authors at key points across the publication lifecycle. 'Scholarly publishers are increasingly experimenting in response to changing market dynamics and shifting business models,' said Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC. 'RightsLink Author Services aids publishers in these areas, supporting their goals of building relationships with their author community.' CCC will highlight its new RightsLink Author Services capabilities at the SSP 47 th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, from 28 to 30 May. CCC will also showcase the beta version of Ringgold Researchers, a new service that helps scholarly publishers and service providers disambiguate and identify researchers, their affiliations, and research-related connections. CCC will be hosting the following sessions at the Annual Meeting: Education Session 4B: 'Breaking the Silos: Using AI to Fuse Copyright Law, Academic Knowledge, and Commercial Innovation' on Friday, 30 May, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. EDT, location TBD, featuring Roanie Levy, Licensing and Legal Advisor, CCC; Diane Harnish, Education Practice Director & Senior Consultant, Delta Think; and Simone Taylor, Chief, Publishing, American Psychiatric Association. Previews Session: 'Trusted Researcher Identity: A New Path Forward with Ringgold Researchers ' on Friday, 30 May, 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. EDT in the Key Ballroom, featuring Jessica Thibodeau, Senior Director, Information and Content Solutions, CCC. Poster Session: 'The Future of Society Publishing: Letting Data Tell the Story' on Thursday, 29 May, 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. in the Exhibitors Marketplace, with Casey Pickering, Director, Product Marketing, CCC. CCC's OA Intelligence software product, featuring AI-enabled data disambiguation with agreement modeling and analysis capabilities, is a finalist for SSP's 2025 EPIC Awards. The winners of the awards, which highlight the achievements of individuals and teams advancing scholarly publishing, will be announced during the EPIC Awards Ceremony on 29 May as part of the Annual Meeting. 'The EPIC Awards celebrate the bold ideas and meaningful progress happening across our community,' said Melanie Dolechek, Executive Director, SSP. 'We are inspired by this year's nominees and look forward to spotlighting their incredible contributions at our Annual Meeting.' CCC advocates for copyright worldwide by engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals with educational programming and thought leadership resources. The organization also maintains an online hub, AI, Copyright & Licensing, which features informational resources for creators, publishers, rightsholders, technologists, media representatives, policymakers, intellectual property attorneys, and others. Since 1978, CCC has supported content users by providing efficient, harmonized licensing solutions for their internal content uses. CCC's non-exclusive voluntary collective licensing solutions include ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, ACL for Curriculum & Instruction, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permissions to re-use content. About CCC A pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, CCC advances copyright, accelerates knowledge, and powers innovation. With expertise in copyright, data quality, data analytics, and FAIR data implementations, CCC and its subsidiary RightsDirect collaborate with stakeholders on innovative solutions to harness the power of data and AI.
