For the market-leading RightsLink for Scientific Communications platform, 2021 was a momentous—and busy—year serving publishers and their institutional customers.

The session will look at best practices for implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and ask how RROs and the wider copyright community can get involved in and contribute to efforts towards achieving quality education, gender equality and responsible consumption and production.

Scientific peer review may be thought of as something a lot like the QA component of the software development process – that is, it is essentially the QA step for the production of high-quality articles which are published in high quality journals.

A voyage around a page takes us on an engrossing metaphorical journey from the Sea of Syndication to the Lake of Knowledge, passing Woods of Truth and Scholarly Fields – forever, of course.

Creating barrier-free, fully inclusive content is a worthy goal, even if the task seems daunting.

“Publishers are the catalysts of societal change. Through what we publish, we can not only influence agendas around sustainability today, but also in the many years to come,” says Michiel Kolman of Elsevier and IPA.

In the first of a two part series presented by CCC, thought-leaders discuss the 2021 outlook for publishing, Open Access, Open Research, new workflows, K-12, digital transformation and copyright.