License Scenario

Landing Page (which is a Content Resource) ➞ License URI

The use of Typed Links in the HTTP Link header is illustrated for the paper:

Jones, S., Van de Sompel, H., Shankar, H., Klein, M., Tobin, R., and Grover, C. Scholarly Context Adrift: Three out of Four URI References Lead to Changed Content. PLoS ONE, 11(12): e0167475 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167475.

This is a summary of the links that should be provided:

  • The Landing Page should have a link with the license relation type to convey the license that applies to the scholarly object.

Link Headers for the License pattern

Visualization of link relations

The HTTP Link header to express the license that applies to the scholarly object with Landing Page URI
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167475 is:		 
$ curl -I "https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0167475"

Link: <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> ; rel="license"