Ongoing calls for social change have drawn attention to the need in scholarly publishing for greater equity, diversity, and inclusion, including for peer review, editorial practices, and business models.
As open scholarly publishing continues to undergo immense change, publishers are looking to each other to hear first-hand about sustainable approaches, program innovations, and tried-and-true practices. 
Building on conversations about the need to diversify authorship in the scholarly publishing community, CCC’s Senior Director for Information and Content Solutions Jamie Carmichael was a recent guest on Martin Delahunty’s Inspiring STEM podcast.
At this year’s NISO Plus 2022 conference, Jamie Carmichael joined a fantastic panel discussion, hosted by Hannah Heckner, Director of Product at Silverchair, and moderated by CCC’s own Christopher Kenneally.Â
CCC recently announced The Royal Society, the UK’s National Academy of Science, has adopted RightsLink for Scientific Communications (RLSC) to support its Open Access (OA) institutional agreements.
Plain Language Summaries move published research beyond the basic definition of Open Access – availability – toward a more ambitious goal of understandability.