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Article metadata

Permissions: copyright & license

Element or context:

<permissions>, <copyright-year>, <license>

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 license within <license> and set @xlink:href to

    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_GB. In <license-p>, inlcude the licensing statment, repeating the link out to the license in <ext-link>. See the example for the exact text and mark-up to use.

Examples:

<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>

<permissions>
   <copyright-year>1992</copyright-year>
   <copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
   <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en_GB">
   <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>