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Community Collections Rights and License Statements

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JSTOR Community Collections rights and license information is cataloged at the item level. For more information about copyright and fair use, please visit our References for Best Practices.

Note: While it's not possible to apply a rights statement to collections published to JSTOR at the collection-level, you can apply collection-wide rights statements to all items in a collection by supplying a default value on the Rights Notes field in your project.

Published Display of Rights for Community Collections

Rights and license information displays on the item-level metadata record for JSTOR Community Collections.

All items published in a Community Collection have the following text published at the bottom of the item-level metadata panel:

This item is being shared by an institution as part of a Community Collection.
For terms of use, please refer to our Terms & Conditions.

In addition to this statement, there are three JSTOR fields available for cataloging rights and license information.

Rights

This field is designed to hold controlled list values for RightsStatements.org rights statements so that when the metadata is published to JSTOR it will display a RightsStatements.org badge for the applicable copyright status.

If you use the JSTOR Template, this field will already be set up as a list field connected to the community “Rights” list. If you need to set up the field in your project to make use of this functionality, see RightsStatement.org and Creative Commons Licenses.

License

This field is designed to hold controlled list values for Creative Commons license statements so that when the metadata is published to JSTOR it will display a Creative Commons badge for the applicable license status.

If you use the JSTOR Template, this field will already be set up as a list field connected to the community “License” list. If you need to set up the field in your project to make use of this functionality, see RightsStatement.org and Creative Commons Licenses.

Rights Notes

This is a free text field for expressing rights and license information. Controlled values from the JSTOR “Rights” or “License” lists can be mapped to this field, if desired, and they will publish to JSTOR with the textual name of the controlled rights or license statement, e.g. “NO KNOWN COPYRIGHT” or “Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial”.

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