Starting from February 2023, Brill changed its policy for journal concerning the copyright statement of articles. For all articles the copyright remains with the author(s), and the author(s) provided Brill with a license to publish it in its journal. In case of Open Access, an additional license is applicable, defining the terms and conditions for re-use of the content. Hereafter the consequences for the XML and PDF are described for the two situations:
Important
Note that this change in policy only affects the contributions for which a License To Publish is received. The change reflects the contents of this license. In general, signed LTP-forms are sent to Brill for research articles and book-reviews. Other contributions such as an editorial remain unchanged. In case of doubts, the Production Editor should be consulted.
An article licensed to Brill
XML
<permissions> <copyright-statement>© [name of the author(s)], [copyright year]. Published with license by Koninklijke Brill NV</copyright-statement> <copyright-year>[copyright year]</copyright-year> <copyright-holder>[name of the author(s)]</copyright-holder> <license license-type="ccc"> <license-p>This work is published by Koninklijke Brill NV. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Hotei, Brill Schöningh, Brill Fink, Brill mentis, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Böhlau, V&R unipress and Wageningen Academic. Koninklijke Brill NV reserves the right to protect the publication against unauthorized use and to authorize dissemination by means of offprints, legitimate photocopies, microform editions, reprints, translations, and secondary information sources, such as abstracting and indexing services including databases. Requests for commercial re-use, use of parts of the publication, and/or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill NV.</license-p> </license> </permissions>
Notes:
- Information between [ ] needs to be filled in:
- The name of the author(s). In case of three authors or more, the first name is filled in, together with the addition "et al.".
- The copyright year
In the PDF a two line footer is included at the first page of an article, typeset according to the instructions in the BTS;
- line 1: Published with license by Koninklijke Brill NV | DOI: <DOI information>
- line 2: © <name of the author(s)>, <copyright year> | ISSN: <print ISSN> (print) <online ISSN> (online)
The name of the authors and the copyright year as above in the XML. Use one EM-space before and after the |-character. Since the PDF version of most articles circulate as separate articles, not in an issue, the ISSN information is added. Thus the first page footer contains all relevant information.
Copyright info too long
The ISSN info can be left out if the copyright info is too long (for example in an article with two authors), leaving not enough space for the ISSN info.
Example:
An article published in Open Access
If an article is published in Open Access, The license type and license text in the XML is adjusted and reflect the corresponding license information. In the PDF a third line is added to the first-page footer with the Open Access information. The other elements in the XML and the first two lines in the PDF remain unchanged.
For Open Access, Brill supports CC BY, CC BY-NC and CC BY-NC-ND licenses (version 4.0).
XML
<permissions> <copyright-statement>© [name of the author(s)], [copyright year]. Published with license by Koninklijke Brill NV</copyright-statement> <copyright-year>[copyright year]</copyright-year> <copyright-holder>[name of the author(s)]</copyright-holder> <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="[license URL]" xlink:title="[license type]"> <license-p>This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the [license type] 4.0 license.</license-p> </license> </permissions>
Notes:
- license URL
- license type
- CC BY
- CC BY-NC
- CC BY-NC-ND
As mentioned above, a third line is added to the footer:
- line 1: Published with license by Koninklijke Brill NV | DOI: <DOI information>
- line 2: © <name of the author(s)>, <copyright year> | ISSN: <print ISSN> (print) <online ISSN> (online)
- line 3: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the <license type> 4.0 license.
Example: