The <permissions> element within <article-meta> contains copyright and license information, including the copyright line that may need to appear in the PDF. The elements in <permissions> should be populated to match the copyright line in the article PDF.
The following copyright elements may be contained in the <permissions> grouping element, in this order:
<copyright-statement> is the textual statement of the copyright intended for print and display (The full statement usually contains the copyright holder’s name and the year among other information.)
<copyright-year> names the copyright year
<copyright-holder> should match the content of the copyright statement
Followed by:
<ali:free_to_read> is an empty element that by its very presence indicates that the document is free-to-read, without making statements about any additional reuse rights or restrictions.
<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> 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 above elements are repeatable. If multiple values are applicable (such as multiple copyright years), they should be tagged separately rather than as multiple values within a single element.
If <ali:license_ref> or <ali:free_to_read/> are used then the ali namespace declaration xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/” must be placed on the root <article> element.
Open Access content should always include a license-type attribute with the value “open-access”. If an article is published using a CC BY, CCBY-NC, or CC BY-NC-ND license, an appropriate license statement should be used (within <license-p>), and appropriate xlink:href attribute value should be included. See examples below.
For articles with complimentary free access, the <ali:free_to_read/> element should be tagged. The previous tagging in TF JATS 1.0 was to include a license-type attribute set to “free”.
The license descriptions for Open Access articles with Creative Copyright licenses have been updated (in March 2023) to include the text “The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.", which should be included in new articles going forward. This text clarifies the existing license terms that allow depositing Open Access articles in repositories in accordance with certain funding requirements that require deposit of an article Accepted Manuscript version. The same license terms also allow using the article Version of Record, which is usually the best available version of a published article, for deposit in repositories. More information is available at Author Services.
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2019, College Art Association of America, Inc.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>College Art Association of America, Inc.</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2019, College Art Association of America, Inc.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>College Art Association of America, Inc.</copyright-holder>
<ali:free_to_read/>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2019 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2014 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2014</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>The Author(s)</copyright-holder>
<license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">
<license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/</ext-link>), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.</license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>This material is published by permission of the National Laboratory, operated by UTA, LLC for the US Department of Energy under Contract No. [DE-25]. The US Government retains for itself, and others acting on its behalf, a paid-up, non-exclusive, and irrevocable worldwide license in said article to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and perform publicly and display publicly, by or on behalf of the Government.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Taylor & Francis</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2019 Copyright of the Crown in Canada. National Research Council Canada.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>National Research Council Canada</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>This work was authored as part of the Contributor's official duties as an Employee of the United States Government and is therefore a work of the United States Government. In accordance with 17 USC. 105, no copyright protection is available for such works under US Law.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-holder>None</copyright-holder>
</permissions>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>© 2019 Fake Research Corporation</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Fake Research Corporation</copyright-holder>
</permissions>