Altmetric Forms Partnership with Copyright Clearance Center

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a global licensing and content solutions organization, announced last week that they will be integrating Altmetric data into their cloud-based RightFind™ content workflow solution. The integration will begin this month as part of a pilot program with several customers and will offer immediate access to a full range of scientific, technical, and medical content.

CCC and its subsidiary RightsDirect are global leaders in content workflow and rights licensing technology. CCC solutions provide anytime, anywhere content access, usage rights and information management while promoting and protecting the interests of copyright holders. Serving more than 35,000 customers and 15,000 copyright holders worldwide, they manage more than 950 million rights from the world’s most sought-after journals, books, blogs, movies and more.

Euan Adie Founder of Altmetric adds:

“Altmetric offers an emerging standard in monitoring the online discussion surrounding scholarly papers. As a complement to RightFind’s extensive content decision support and usage analytics capabilities, Altmetric data will provide CCC customers with an even deeper level of understanding of the value of the content used throughout their organization and industry.”

To find out more you can read CCC’s announcement here and follow them on Twitter, they are @copyrightclear.