
ONIX for
Publications Licenses As
the number of digital resources in library collections grows, libraries
have increasing difficulty in managing, and ensuring that they comply
with, the ever-growing number of different licenses that they
hold. Libraries need to be able to
- express
licenses in a machine-readable format,
- load
them into electronic resource management systems,
- link
them to digital resources, and
- communicate
key usage terms to users
Publishers
will also benefit from the ability to maintain their licenses in a
standard machine-readable form.
ONIX for Publications
Licenses (ONIX-PL) is part of a family of XML formats for the
communication of licensing terms under the generic name ONIX for
Licensing Terms. ONIX-PL is specialized to handle the
licenses
under which libraries and other institutions use digital resources,
particularly but by no means exclusively electronic journals.
It builds on the work of the Digital Libraries Federation's Electronic
Resource Management Initiative (ERMI)
and the joint EDItEUR / NISO work on ONIX
for Serials,and has benefited
from funding contributions
from the UK Publishers
Licensing
Society (PLS) and the Joint
Information
Systems Committee (JISC). ONIX-PL
format, November 2008 ONIX-PL is an XML
format for the communication of license terms for digital publications
in a
structured and substantially encoded form, designed to serve the
interests of
all parties in the licensing chain. Click on the above heading for more
information and downloads.
OPLE v1.0: the ONIX-PL Editor To
support the creation, editing and maintenance of ONIX-PL expressions,
EDItEUR has developed an Open Source software package, OPLE.
After more than a year’s experience with a pilot version of
the software, pre-release copies of version 1.0 were installed with a
small number of users in November 2008. Based upon
their experience, the software is now available for wider installation.
Click on the above heading for more information and downloads.
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