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CCC Wins SSP EPIC Gold Award for OA Intelligence


CCC announces its Open Access Intelligence solution was named a Gold winner in the Society of Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP) 2025 Excellence in Publishing, Information Technology & Communications (EPIC) Awards.

CCC’s OA Intelligence software solution features  AI-enabled data disambiguation with agreement modeling and analysis capabilities. OA Intelligence empowers publishers to reliably disambiguate institution affiliations and funder relationships, and match them to historically published manuscripts, facilitating the structuring and negotiation of OA offers.

SSP’s EPIC awards highlight the remarkable achievements of teams that advance scholarly publishing through creativity, collaboration, and cutting-edge innovation. CCC and other finalists were selected across five top-level categories, each with multiple subcategories to recognize the diverse ways organizations and individuals are pushing the boundaries of scholarly communication. 

“OA Intelligence is a simple solution to a complex problem, and there is tremendous value in the amount of time saved and opportunities gained through its automation.”
– Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC.

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Author: Craig Sender

Craig Sender is the Senior Director of Public and Analyst Relations at CCC. With 30 years of experience in the media industry, he has held various marketing communications roles at the Disney Internet Group, Perkins School for the Blind, Dan Klores Communications, Ruder Finn, and eMarketer. Since 2012, Sender has served as an Adjunct Professor at Boston University's College of Communication. He earned his master’s degree in communications management from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University, where he also completed his undergraduate studies in public relations.