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Free access

Different options

As mentioned in the definition, it is Brill's decision to make specific content accessible for everyone / make it available for free. Reasons to decide to do so can be:

• Related to the content type. Examples are:
  • front matter of books and journals
  • back of the book indexes
  • specific article types in journal issues:  "correction", "editorial", "introduction", "obituary", "partial-retraction", or "retraction". These types can easily be recognized by the article type attribute in the XML.
  • specific contributions to journal issues that cannot be determined by the article type attribute: 
    • Foreword
    • Publisher’s Note
    • List of Contributors / Notes on Contributors
    • Call for Papers
    • Instructions for Authors
    • In Future Issues
    • Back Issues Books Received 
    • (Guest) Editors in this Volume
• Related to marketing campaigns or other promotional activities, for example the COVID-19 collection (https://www2.brill.com/COVID-19_collection)

Free access can be set up for a specific period by specifying start and/or end date in the XML (see the next paragraph). If no end date is specified, free access will be perpetual and can only be changed by modifying the XML.

XML consequences

In the BITS- and JATS- XML, free access is defined by including the <ali:free_to_read>-element in the <permissions>-group. Some examples:

1. Free access to a specific article or section of a book:

   Code Block
   language xml title Perpetual free-access
   <permissions> <copyright-statement>© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2021</copyright-statement> <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year> <copyright-holder>Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag.</copyright-holder> <ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/> </permissions>

   
   

See also

• Regular issues / Points of attention#OpenAccessarticles for the JATS instructions for license type and copyright information
• Procedure Open Access Books for the front matter consequences of Open access books

Open Access

License types and copyright information

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