Bussum, Netherlands, 18 November 2013: Bentham Science Publishers and the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), a not-for-profit organization and leading provider of licensing solutions, have completed a formal agreement over a referral partnership allowing Bentham Science Publishers to protect copyrighted assets from their online content using CCC's RightsLink® service. The RightsLink® service is now available via Bentham Science's website.

RightsLink® is an easy-to-use licensing solution, enabling rightsholders to offer permissions at the point-of-content – hosted on a website, mobile application or third-party aggregator.

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the rights licensing experts, is a global rights broker for the world's most sought after materials, including in- and out-of-print books, journals, newspapers, magazines, movies, television shows, images, blogs and ebooks. Founded in 1978 as a not-for-profit organization, CCC provides smart solutions that simplify the licensing of content that lets businesses and academic institutions quickly get permission to use copyright-protected materials, while compensating publishers and content creators for the use of their works. For more information, visit www.copyright.com.

Bentham Science Publishers publishes over 100 print & online scholarly journals and 200 plus open access publications in 2013. It also published more than 300 eBooks till date. Major fields covered by Bentham journals and eBooks include science, technology, medicine, engineering, chemistry, life sciences, social sciences and pharmaceutical science. For a detailed profile, visit www.benthamscience.com/