XML expression of a licence: Final report and Appendices

Building on the work of the Digital Libraries Fede ration's Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) and the joint EDItEUR / NISO work on ONIX for Serials, an ONIX Publisher License format is being developed to provide that functionality through a standard XML message for the communication of licensing terms for electronic resources from a publisher to a user institution (e.g. an academic institution or consortium), either directly or th rough a subscription agent. The format will allow a publisher licence to be expressed electronically as a standard XML document that can be loaded into an electronic resources management system maintained by the receiving institution. The ONIX Publisher License is seen as the first step towards a comprehensive family of ONIX formats, ONIX for Licensing Terms , based on a single data dictionary. This project’s objectives were to analyse the Wiley InterScience Enhanced Access Licence for Academic Users, selected for its range of usage terms and widespread implementation, and develop an equivalent ONIX Publisher License representation in the form of an XML message together with definitions of all the terms and appropriate tables of values. The project will also deliver an extended version of the currently limited ONIX for Licensing Terms data dictionary