Need help to understand how to display copyright licensing terms

Good morning to all. I have a problem of consistency in the way the copyright license displays online and I don’t seem to get any further on my own. I hope you can help.
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Despite the setting seeming identical, the display of the licence online is not the same. I would like to display the icon, and I tried to add the icon to the Distribution Setting, but the results is that in some case it will display twice.

Regarding this, can you explain how the “reset article permission” feature works? I would be willing to try it but I fear the results.

Thank you in advance.

Hi @lsteele,

One license URL lists http, and the other lists https. I’d suggest copy-pasting the preferred license URL into both places to make sure they are identical.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Are you planning on changing anything in this respect? From our perspective both the copyright holder and the CC licence should be visible regardless of whether http or https is being used, e.g. like so:cc
The licence link must not disappear under the name of the copyright holder but be displayed alongside instead.

Hi @ojs_univie,

In the current release (OJS 3.1.2-1), OJS will show the CC license badge regardless of whether http or https URLs are used.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Hi,

my recent experience is that a ccby icon is displayed only if you use the string http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 (this is the one we use, obviously). It did not display the icon using the https url. I had to change them manually wherever the icon was not displayed.

Lucia

Hi @lsteele,

What version of OJS are you using?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

3.1.1.2.

Lucia Steele
Lodi (LO) - Italy

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Hi @lsteele,

Yes, this behavior changed with OJS 3.1.2 – I’d suggest upgrading to the newest release.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Dear Alec,

You are always a great support. Is there anywhere I can pick up other relevant changes to v.3.1.2? It may be good for us to upgrade, but as I have to ask our support I would prefer to know what is new.

Thanks,

Lucia

Hi @lsteele,

Thanks! You can find a list of changes by filtering Issues · pkp/pkp-lib · GitHub by the release you want to learn about. For example, if you’re using OJS 3.1.1-5, then there are two relevant lists, one for each release since then: OJS/OMP 3.1.2, and OJS/OMP 3.1.2-1. Because there is a mix of new features, bug fixes & other matters, you might find the “Label” filters helpful.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

Belated thanks! We do think displaying the copyright holder in addition to the licence would be useful as well.

Hi @ojs_univie,

Both should be displayed – but note that setting up copyright details in the journal settings won’t be enough by itself; for already-existing articles, you’ll also have to enter the copyright details in the article’s metadata. This is done so that shifts in e.g. copyright policies don’t cause all previously-published content to display the new policy if that’s not appropriate.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team