CCC Wins SSP 2025 Excellence in Publishing, Information Technology & Communications Gold Award

DANVERS, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, announces its OA Intelligence software solution that helps publishers automate data enrichment, modeling, and analysis to accelerate OA strategy, was named a Gold winner in the Society of Scholarly Publishing’s (SSP) 2025 Excellence in Publishing, Information Technology, & Communications (EPIC) Awards.

CCC is honored by the growing recognition of OA Intelligence’s ability to help publishers accelerate the creation of scalable, sustainable, and transparent deals with institutional customers.

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SSP’s EPIC awards highlight the remarkable achievements of individuals and teams who are advancing scholarly publishing through creativity, collaboration, and cutting-edge innovation. CCC and other finalists were selected across five top-level categories, each with multiple subcategories to recognize the diverse ways organizations and individuals are pushing the boundaries of scholarly communication.

“CCC is honored by the growing recognition of OA Intelligence’s ability to help publishers accelerate the creation of scalable, sustainable, and transparent deals with institutional customers,” said Emily Sheahan, Vice President & Managing Director, CCC. “OA Intelligence is a simple solution to a complex problem, and there is tremendous value in the amount of time saved and opportunities gained through its automation.”

CCC’s OA Intelligence software solution features AI-enabled data disambiguation with agreement modeling and analysis capabilities. An alternative to performing highly time-consuming and repetitive data enrichment tasks using spreadsheets and standalone data visualization tools, OA Intelligence empowers publishers to reliably disambiguate institution affiliations and funder relationships, and match them to historically published manuscripts, facilitating the structuring and negotiation of OA offers.

Along with RightsLink for Scientific Communications, Ringgold Solutions, and RightsLink Author Services, OA Intelligence is part of CCC’s Scholarly Communications Suite of innovative, metadata-driven solutions that help publishers scale and optimize their transforming publishing models.

CCC advocates for copyright worldwide by engaging governments, stakeholders, and individuals with educational programming and thought leadership resources. The organization also maintains an online hub, AI, Copyright & Licensing, which features informational resources for creators, publishers, rightsholders, technologists, media representatives, policymakers, intellectual property attorneys, and others.

Since 1978, CCC has supported content users by providing efficient, harmonized licensing solutions for their internal content uses. CCC’s non-exclusive voluntary collective licensing solutions include ACL for Business, Multinational Copyright License (MCL) for Business, ACL for Higher Education, ACL for Curriculum & Instruction, and ACL for Student Assessments. In addition to licensing solutions, CCC provides one-stop access for users to request, receive, and pay for full-text content and permissions to re-use content.

About CCC
A pioneer in voluntary collective licensing, CCC advances copyright, accelerates knowledge, and powers innovation. With expertise in copyright, data quality, data analytics, and FAIR data implementations, CCC and its subsidiary RightsDirect collaborate with stakeholders on innovative solutions to harness the power of data and AI.