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Born open access

Commercial or non-profit publishers established for the sole purpose of publishing Open Access (OA) journals. They normally make use of the Creative Commons Attribution License for their publications. Authors usually retain their copyrights and users are needed to acknowledge and cite the authors in future references.

ByCASRAI Editorial Board
· Last updated 19 May 2026

Machine-readable encodings

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JATS XML <role> element
xml
<role vocab="credit"
      vocab-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/"
      vocab-term="Born open access"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/born-open-access" />
Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)
json
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  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "Born open access",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/born-open-access/",
  "description": "Commercial or non-profit publishers established for the sole purpose of publishing Open Access (OA) journals. They normally make use of the Creative Commons Attribution License for their publications. Authors usually retain their copyrights and users are needed to acknowledge and cite the authors in future references.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/research-lifecycle-stages-and-project-metadata/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/born-open-access/",
  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}
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