Front and Back matter in journal issues

End of 2021 it has been decided to include the front and back matter of journal issues in the web package and make these online accessible. An important reason to do so, is the information concerning the editorial board. At brill.com, fed by KLOPOTEK, the current editorial board is given, which can - and in many cases will - be different from the board that was responsible for an earlier volume. Based on research amongst academic libraries, it has been decided to add front matter pages only to the first issue of a volume and back matter pages only to the last. Due to this, the issues in a volume can easily be bound together. Front matter information is repeated at the inside cover of all issues. Hereafter, the specifications for including the front matter pages in the first issue and back matter in the last issue of a volume are given.

Front matter in issue 1

Default front matter layout is:

i. Half title page
ii. Editorial board information
iii. Title page with imprint logo
iv. Submission and Copyright information

A different layout is possible, to be considered between the Journal Editor, Publisher and Production Editor. For including the front matter in the issue package the general guidelines for an article can be followed. Main differences are:

Only header XML is necessary, Actual information is presented in PDF format and access is free (include <ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/> in the permissions group)
Attribute article-type="other"
Title = Front matter
Volume and date information is copied from the issue. Issue is 1
Roman page numbering should be applied, similar with front matter for books,
The sequential number in DOI and PDF-filename is "000"
Subject "front matter" is added

Next an example of the XML for the front matter in issue 1 of volume 17 of the COPR-journal. E-ISSN for this journal is 1875-8185. Based on volume and issue information and the article number "000" the:

DOI string is 10.1163/18758185-01701000
PDF file name is 18758185_017_01_s000_text.pdf

Front matter example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.1 20151215//EN" "http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd">
<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.1" article-type="other" xml:lang="eng">
  <front>
    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">COPR</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="eissn">1875-8185</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Contemporary Pragmatism</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="ltwa">Contemp. Pragmat.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="print">1572-3429</issn>
      <issn publication-format="online">1875-8185</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Brill | Rodopi</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Leiden</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1163/18758185-01701000</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>front matter</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Front matter</article-title>
      </title-group>
     <pub-date date-type="issue" publication-format="online">
        <day>12</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume content-type="number">17</volume>
      <volume content-type="year">2020</volume>
     <issue>1</issue>
      <fpage specific-use="PDF" seq="000">i</fpage>
      <lpage>iv</lpage>
      <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>
      <self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="18758185_017_01_s000_text.pdf"/>
      <custom-meta-group>
        <custom-meta>
          <meta-name>version</meta-name>
          <meta-value>header</meta-value>
        </custom-meta>
      </custom-meta-group>
    </article-meta>
  </front>
</article>

Back matter in the last issue

in general the back matter consists mainly of the volume contents. It has to be treated as a regular article. Main differences / specifications:

Only header XML is necessary, Actual information is presented in PDF format and access is free (include <ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/> in the permissions group)
Attribute article-type="other"
Title = Back matter
Volume and date information is copied from the issue.
Page numbering is based on continuing the numbering of the last article.
The sequential number in DOI and PDF-filename is the number of the last article + 1
Subject "back matter" is added

Below, an example of the XML for back matter in issue 4 of volume 17 of the COPR-journal. This issue has 6 articles, as a result, the number used in the DOI and PDF file name is 7. Final page number of the last article is 332, so the back matter starts at page 333.

Back matter example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD JATS (Z39.96) Journal Publishing DTD v1.1 20151215//EN" "http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/1.1/JATS-journalpublishing1.dtd">
<article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.1" article-type="other" xml:lang="eng">
  <front>
    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">COPR</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="eissn">1875-8185</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Contemporary Pragmatism</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="ltwa">Contemp. Pragmat.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="print">1572-3429</issn>
      <issn publication-format="online">1875-8185</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Brill | Rodopi</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>Leiden</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1163/18758185-01704007</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>back matter</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Back matter</article-title>
      </title-group>
     <pub-date date-type="issue" publication-format="online">
        <day>07</day>
        <month>12</month>
        <year>2020</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume content-type="number">17</volume>
      <volume content-type="year">2020</volume>
     <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage specific-use="PDF" seq="007">333</fpage>
      <lpage>334</lpage>
      <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>
      <self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="18758185_017_04_s007_text.pdf"/>
      <custom-meta-group>
        <custom-meta>
          <meta-name>version</meta-name>
          <meta-value>header</meta-value>
        </custom-meta>
      </custom-meta-group>
    </article-meta>
  </front>
</article>

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