Date of online availability

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This applies to any online availability of the content of the work where the term “publication” is not appropriate. This is applicable where the type-of-work isn’t usually published – a practice-based output or thesis, for example, or if the platform is a social or subject networking site. Where a work is subsequently published this term would only be used if the content is substantially the same as that that was made available online.

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JATS XML <role> element

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      vocab-term="Date of online availability"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/date-of-online-availability" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

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  "name": "Date of online availability",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/date-of-online-availability",
  "description": "The date that a work was first made available online. This may be before or after the publication date.",
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  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
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  },
  "dateModified": "2026-05-19T19:10:47",
  "inLanguage": "en"
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