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Article XML Requirements

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Article metadata

Permissions: copyright & license

Element or context:

<permissions>, <copyright-year>, <license>, <ali:free_to_read>, <ali:license_ref>

Requirements:

  1. Contain the copyright year within <permissions><copyright-year>
  2. Include the default copyright statement within <license><license-p> and link out in <ext-link> to https://www.copyright.com/
  3. If the article is open access:
    • Include the "free to read" access license indicator using the tag <ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/>
    • Set @license-type on <license> to "open-access"
    • Include the link to the CCBY 4.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_GB, within <ali:license_ref and set @xmlns:ali on <ali:license_ref> to http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/
    • In <license-p>, inlcude the licensing statment, repeating the link out to the license in <ext-link>. See the examples below for the exact text and mark-up to use.

  4. Note that sometimes articles will have different copyright statements than those shown in the examples here. Please use the copyright statement text as provided in the manuscript.
  5. Free access: Some paper types are always freely available. If a paper is one of the following, include the <ali:free_to_read> element (though the open access license tagging is not applied). See Example 3.
    • Abstracts
    • Addition
    • Announcement
    • Book review
    • Comment
    • Correction
    • Corrigendum
    • Dates of issue
    • Dedication
    • Discussion
    • Editorial
    • Editorial policy
    • Erratum
    • List of papers
    • Note of appreciation
    • Obituary
    • Point of view
    • Reply
    • Title page

Example 1: Subscription content

<permissions>
<copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<license>
<license-p>Permission for reuse (free in most cases) can be obtained from 
   <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://marketplace.copyright.com/rs-ui-web/mp">copyright.com</ext-link>.
   </license-p></license>
</permissions>

Example 2: Open access content

<permissions>
   <copyright-year>1992</copyright-year>
   <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
   <ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/>
   <license license-type="open-access"> 
   <ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">
        https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_GB</ali:license_ref>
   <license-p>Copyright remains with the author(s) or their institution(s). This work is licensed under a <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_GB">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License</ext-link> (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
   </license-p></license>
</permissions>

Example 3: Editorial (free to read)

<permissions>
<copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/>
<license>
<license-p>Permission for reuse (free in most cases) can be obtained from <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://marketplace.copyright.com/rs-ui-web/mp">copyright.com</ext-link>.
   </license-p>
   </license>
</permissions>