NISO Access and License Indicators

Nettie Lagace, NISO - @abugseyeALCTS CRS

College and Research Libraries Interest GroupALA Annual, Orlando, June 26, 2016

Why is This Necessary?

Growth of OA + More Funder Mandates + Hybrids =

Lots of OA papers with different associated rights and responsibilities =

Confusion concerning who can do what when

Audience Segments

• Readers• Authors• Publishers• Funders• Search engines/discovery services• Academic Libraries

Working Group’s Objectives

1. A specified format for bibliographic metadata and possibly, a set of visual signals, describing the readership rights associated with a single scholarly work

2. Recommended mechanisms for publishing and distributing this metadata

3. A report on the feasibility of including clear information on downstream re-use rights within the current project and, if judged feasible, inclusion of these elements in outputs 1 and 2

4. A report stating how the adoption of these outputs would answer (or not) specific use cases to be developed by the Working Group

Working Group Membership

Co-chairs:• Cameron Neylon, PLoS• Ed Pentz, CrossRef• Greg Tananbaum, Consultant

(SPARC)Members: • Tim Devenport, EDItEUR• Gregg Gordon, Social Science

Research Network (SSRN)• Julie Hardesty, Indiana

University Library• Paul Keller, Europeana

Licensing Framework

• Cecy Marden, The Wellcome Library

• Jack Ochs, American Chemical Society

• Heather Reid, Copyright Clearance Center

• Jill Russell, University of Birmingham

• Chris Shillum, Elsevier• Ben Showers, JISC• Eefke Smit, STM Association• Christine Stohn, Ex Libris• Timothy Vollmer, Creative

Commons

“open access” politically fraught

• Won’t use this labelFactual information:– Is a specified work free to read – can it be

accessed by anyone who has access to the Web?– What re-use rights are granted to this reader?

• Minimal set of metadata needed• Decided not to create/recommend a logo

<free_to_read> Tag

• Indicates content can be read or viewed by any user without payment or authentication

• Simple attribute of “yes” or “no” • Optional start and end dates to accommodate

embargoes, special offers, etc.

<free_to_read="no" start_date="2014-02-3” end_date=”2015-02-03"/><free_to_read="yes" start_date="2015-02-3”/>

• Content of this tag would include a stable identifier expressed as an HTTP URI

• URI would point to license terms that are human and/or machine readable

• Multiple URIs can be listed if article exists under specific license for certain period of time and then changes<license_ref start_date="2014-02-03">http://www.psychoceramics.org/license_v1.html</license_ref><license_ref start_date="2015-02-03">http://www.psychoceramics.org/open_license.html</license_ref>

<license_ref> Tag

Distributing Metadata

• Who? Publishers, aggregators, content providers

• Include the metadata in all standard metadata sets– Intended that this population/distribution will

become part of standard editorial and production workflows

• Could also include in alerts such as e-TOCs and RSS feeds and A&I feeds

ALI Schema

JATS 1.1

Benefits of Successful Implementation

Growth of OA + More Funder Mandates + Hybrids =

Lots of OA papers with different associated rights and responsibilities =

Confusion concerning who can do what when+

OA Metadata Indicator =

Transmittal of an article’s openness in a manner that makes discovery, tracking, readership, and (hopefully)

reuse straightforward

Thank you! Questions?