16. Rights (MA)

Any rights information for this resource (occurrences: 0-n).

Allowed values, examples, other constraints

Free text.

Provide a rights management statement for the resource or reference a service providing such information. Include embargo information if applicable.

Use the complete title of a license and include version information if applicable.

Example: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany License

Note

Mandatory when applicable property in OpenAIRE instead of optional in DataCite.

OpenAIRE uses this property to explicit declare the access right of the resource via 16.1 rightsURI (MA). This does not exclude also using 16. Rights (MA) property for additional rights statements as defined by DataCite Metadata Schema v3.1. In particular OpenAIRE also recommends including license information if available.

Please refer to the section Access rights and license information for a full example of how to declare access right and license information.

16.1 rightsURI (MA)

The URI of the license (occurrences: 0-1).

Allowed values, examples, other constraints

Example:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/deed.en

Note

Mandatory when applicable property in OpenAIRE instead of optional in DataCite.

Use terms from the info:eu-repo-Access-Terms vocabulary. The values are:

  • info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
  • info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

This property may also be used to explicitly declare the license for the resource.

Please refer to the section Access rights and license information for a full example of how to declare access right and license information.

Example

An example:

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<rightsList>
  <rights rightsURI=”info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess” />
</rightsList>

OpenAIRE further recommends including license information if available:

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<rightsList>
  <rights rightsURI=”info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess” />
  <rights rightsURI=”http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/”>
    Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
  </rights>
</rightsList>