RightsLink for Scientific Communications has made some significant strides in the past few years, especially in the way of developing and involving an ever-more extensive user community.

RLSC is now being used to simplify the management of Open Access (OA) agreements between publishers and more than 800 institutions and funders in 40+ countries.

This marks the first pure Open Access Publisher to implement CCC’s Market-Leading SaaS Platform for Institutional Agreement Management.

RLSC now can inform authors of available Open Access (OA) publication funding throughout the manuscript lifecycle, starting with submission.

Opportunity in biomedical research has never been greater, and NIH believes strongly that enhancing expectations for data management and sharing allows maximization of that opportunity.

It was likely an outside disruptor would force changes to the scientific publishing ecosystem. COVID-19 has been that disruptor.