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Publishing agreement

A legal contract between publisher and author(s) to publish written material by the author(s). This may involve a single written work, or a series of works.

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="Publishing agreement"
      vocab-term-identifier="https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/publishing-agreement" />

Schema.org DefinedTerm (JSON-LD)

json

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "DefinedTerm",
  "name": "Publishing agreement",
  "identifier": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/publishing-agreement/",
  "description": "A legal contract between publisher and author(s) to publish written material by the author(s). This may involve a single written work, or a series of works.",
  "inDefinedTermSet": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/domain/compliance-and-regulatory/",
  "url": "https://casrai.org/dictionary/term/publishing-agreement/",
  "sameAs": [],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}

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