
OA Agreement Intelligence
How it works
Features
- An easy three-step modeling process to efficiently create agreement offers and streamline communication of underlying spend data with institutional partners.
- Automated affiliation enrichment technology to help reliably identify institution and funder affiliations for historically published manuscripts.
- Powerful data visualizations and export capabilities to showcase deal transparency and measure success.
Benefits
- Reduce costly, manual affiliation data clean-up through automated affiliation enrichment technology.
- Optimize and scale OA programs with flexible tools to model “what-if?” scenarios for agile experimentation and innovation without spending hours on data aggregation, validation, and analysis.
- Build and maintain trust with partners through consistent, data-driven agreement proposals.
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Why OA Agreement Intelligence?
Constructing data-driven publishing agreements at scale impacts all stakeholders in the OA environment. OA Agreement Intelligence transforms the agreement modeling process by supporting better visibility and communications to facilitate collaboration with our partners.”

Streamline the creation of your OA Agreements in 3 steps
1. Prepare
Conceptualize your agreement offer, outlining 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.
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