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<license> License Information

Set of conditions under which the content may be used, accessed, and distributed.
Related Elements
JATS has several elements that deal with the usage, permissions, and licensing. Some of these elements are taken from the NISO Access and License Indicators (ALI) 2015 Recommended Practice specification. The other element is JATS-specific and predates the NISO recommendation:
  • <ali:free_to_read> — This NISO ALI element is a simple flag whose presence indicates that the document is free-to-read, without making statements about any additional reuse rights or restrictions. Date attributes can specify when the document is free to be read.
  • <ali:license_ref> — This NISO ALI element points to a public license or waiver. By “public”, NISO means that the offer is generally and not privately offered. Such a license may be either human or machine-readable text that explains the terms of use or reuse for the content.
  • <license> — A JATS-specific element whose content describes a set of conditions under which the content may be used, accessed, and distributed. This element was provided to hold the license text. The 2015 NISO ALI recommendation is to store in the XML document a URI that points to the license instead of the full license text. For users who adopt the NISO ALI recommendation, the <license> element could be used to hold a short representation of the license, a sentence or two to be used for display. Alternatively, a publisher could choose not to implement NISO ALI and to put the text of the license in <license>.
    The <license> element takes the @xlink:href attribute to point to the text of the license. However, the new NISO ALI element <ali:license_ref> performs the same pointing function. JATS best practice is to omit the @xlink:href attribute from <license> if a NISO ALI <ali:license_ref> is used.
Attributes
hreflang
license-type
specific-use

Multi-lang Attributes

lang-focus
lang-focus-custom
lang-group
lang-source
lang-source-custom
lang-translate
lang-variant
lang-variant-custom

Base Attributes

id
xml:base
xml:lang

Linking Attributes

xlink:actuate
xlink:href
xlink:role
xlink:show
xlink:title
xlink:type

Namespaces

xmlns:xlink
Models and Context
May be contained in
<permissions>
Description
Any one of:
Content Model
<!ELEMENT  license      %license-model;                              >
Expanded Content Model

((ali:license_ref | license-p)+)

Tagged Samples
“open access”
Available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution License 
...
<article-meta>
 ...
 <permissions>
  <copyright-statement>Copyright: &copy; 2004 Eichenberger
   et al.</copyright-statement>
  <copyright-year>2004</copyright-year>
  <license license-type="open-access"
    xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">
   <license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the 
    terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits 
    unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, 
    provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
  </license>
 </permissions>
 <related-article related-article-type="companion"
   xlink:title="synopsis" xlink:href="10.1371/journal.pbio.0020359"
   vol="2" page="e359">
  <article-title>How to Make a Mother in Five Easy Steps</article-title>
 </related-article>
 ...
</article-meta>
...
“open license” 
...
<permissions>
 <license>
  <ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" start_date="2015-02-03">
   http://www.examplesite.org/open_license.html</ali:license_ref>
 </license>
</permissions>
...
Two concurrent licenses
Two licenses, which both apply (concurrently, covering differing contexts), that are both related to STM’s Article Sharing Framework 
...
<license>
 <ali:license_ref
   start_date="2014-02-03"
   applies_to="https://doi.org/10.15223/asf-profile"
   >https://doi.org/10.15223/policy-005
 </ali:license_ref> 

 <ali:license_ref 
   start_date="2014-02-03"
   applies_to="https://doi.org/10.15223/asf-profile"
   >https://doi.org/10.15223/policy-025
 </ali:license_ref>
</license>
...
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