RightsLink® Author

A Powerful Transaction Engine Solving Problems for Publishers and Stakeholders

Submission

Collect:

  • Submission charges
  • Membership or other charges

Acceptance

Collect:

  • Open Access charges
  • Page charges
  • Color charges
  • Supplemental data or other charges

Production

Enable:

  • Author Reprints
  • Open Access for historical content
  • Other author engagement programs

First Proof

Collect:

  • Custom cover charges
  • Membership charges
  • Enrollment charges for article marketing, data hosting, or other author programs

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OA Agreement Manager

The OA Agreement Manager module works in tandem with the RightsLink Author APC Manager to allow authors to request APC funding from their respective institutions or funders, ensure special billing agreements are honored, and give much-needed tools to institutions and funders for approving, tracking and reporting APC funding requests.

Features include:

Publisher tools for setting up, managing and tracking aggregated invoicing profiles

A new, efficient invoicing method

Notifications of acceptance for both author and institution

Approval process for institutions to authorize funding for transactions

A rules-driven author workflow when contract profiles are recognized

Detailed reporting for all parties

For more information, contact your account manager.

Article Publication Charges

The RightsLink platform creates an author-centric workflow for automating the payment and collection of traditional publication charges for any journal—pure OA, hybrid or subscription:

    • Hosting supplementary data
    • Enrolling in marketing and article promotion services
    • Becoming members of a society

Plus, RightsLink facilitates the collection of additional payments for services such as:

  • Hosting suplementary data
  • Enrolling in marketing and article promotion services
  • Becoming members of a society

Standard APIs allow key author, manuscript, publisher, institution and funder metadata to be shared between the publisher's upstream submission and/or production system(s) and RightsLink, enabling the publisher to embed the payment workflow within their own author workflow. This rich metadata is used by RightsLink's sophisticated pricing engine to deliver a completely custom price (including discounts to each and every author, based on the journal's business rules.

Submission Fees

Upstream from APCs, the RightsLink platform facilitates the automatic collection of submission charges.

  • Help ensure authors who submit are serious about publishing with those journals
  • Create an additional revenue stream to pay for peer-review and other publication costs.
  • Easily embed a manuscript-specific and author-specific e-commerce link into the submission workflow

Real-time API data and real-time reporting make it easy to track payments and thus trigger next steps in the workflow, such as peer review.

Custom Cover Fees

For publishers who offer authors the ability to publish an article figure or image on the cover of the journal issue in which their manuscript is being published, RightsLink can automate this workflow.

RightsLink can house a standard rate card or collect a fee negotiated between the author and the journal editor.

Real-time API data and real-time reporting make it easy to track payments and thus trigger next steps in the workflow, such as production.

Author Reprints

Once a manuscript is published, RightsLink makes it easy for any journal—pure OA, hybrid, or subscription—to offer primary and secondary authors the ability to order reprints or e-prints through RightsLink's print partner, Sheridan.

Using RightsLink's communications module, publishers can trigger multiple email offers to authors that include a dynamic link to the automated RightsLink workflow.

Take advantage of this turn-key system to bring new services to your authors and supplemental revenue to your publishing program.

Connecting Stakeholders

Today's "article-based" economy involves more stakeholders than ever before. Publishers, authors, research management offices, libraries within institutions, funders, and vendors are now all part of publishing decisions and payment processes. As a result, publishers need robust, automated solutions to manage this complexity.

RightsLink has API and deep integrations with third-party submission systems including:

RightsLink provides publishers and their stakeholders with rich transaction tracking and reporting, with over 140 data elements per transaction. These data elements can be mapped directly into compliance reporting, whether an institution uses the JISC, CASRAI or other formats.

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