Features
- An easy three-step modeling process to efficiently create agreement offers and streamline communication of data with institutional partners.
- AI-enabled, affiliation enrichment technology and analytic capabilities to reliably identify institution affiliations and funder relationships.
- Ability to import your publication data, regardless of system of record, through a standardized and ESAC-compliant template.
- Dynamic data visualizations and analysis tools to showcase deal transparency and measure success.
Benefits
- Optimize and scale OA programs with efficient tools to model “what-if?” scenarios for agile experimentation and innovation without costly, error-prone processes.
- Reduce time-consuming institution affiliation disambiguation efforts through AI-enabled enrichment technology.
- Gain strategic insights into your OA program with a 360-degree view of historical publication data (both OA and subscription) to quickly identify new deal opportunities.
- Increase institutional customer satisfaction through consistent, data-driven agreement proposals.
Why OA Intelligence?
The OA Intelligence tool helps us create new agreement offers and allows us to model scenarios so we can easily predict the progression of our Open Access article output which, in turn, will help us with future strategic scenario planning.”
Streamline the creation of your OA Agreements in 3 steps
1. Prepare
Conceptualize your agreement offer with disambiguated publication data, outline its core parameters, and create your historical baseline to model a future deal with a specific partner.
2. Build
Leverage comprehensive pricing parameters to simulate and experiment with new deal types and create agreement offers to propose to institutional partners.
3. Analyze
Analyze, compare and adjust your pricing to meet your goals, partner expectations, market dynamics, and more.
Award-Winning Innovation and Efficiency
The EPIC Awards shine a light on the individuals and teams driving innovation and impact across scholarly communications. Gold Awards were given to the top scoring entries in each category that demonstrated exceptional quality and creativity. Feedback from judges indicated that the OA Intelligence tool was innovative and exhibits the potential to streamline the contract negotiation process significantly, improving efficiency for publishers.”

Featured resources
The State of Scholarly Metadata: Interactive Report
CCC and Media Growth Strategies undertook a thorough examination of metadata management across the research lifecycle. Drawn directly from research interviews, we created an interactive, visual report that depicts the significant economic and social impact that a fragmented metadata supply chain has on researchers, institutions, funders, and publishers on the journey to Open Access and beyond; and highlights some exciting initiatives showing that progress is underway to improve metadata management.
Analytics Starts with a Question: How to Better Understand Your Data
As the power of computing and access to information has increased, data, and the knowledge derived from that data, has become an increasingly important driver for organizational decision-making.
Exploring the Challenges in the Shift to Open Access: Part 1 – Data
Data is key to fueling the transition to Open Access publishing models, but it also presents some of the largest challenges. In the first part of a 3-part series, Herman Mentink takes a look at some of the data challenges publishers face in this transition.
How Data Quality Makes or Breaks Open Access Agreements
CCC’s Senior Director, Information & Content Solutions, Jamie Carmichael looks at the importance of data quality in negotiating and implementing open access (OA) institutional agreements.