Open access
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Compliance with open access mandates and self-archiving
Authors can either publish through the traditional subscribed access route or make their paper immediately open access through payment of an article-processing charge (APC). Authors won't be required to make a final decision about access to their article until acceptance.
Authors may need to take specific actions to achieve compliance with funder and institutional open access mandates. If your research is supported by a funder that requires immediate open access (e.g. according to Plan S principles) then you should select the gold OA route, and we will direct you to the compliant route where possible. For authors selecting the subscription publication route, the journal’s standard licensing terms will need to be accepted, including self-archiving policies. Those licensing terms will supersede any other terms that the author or any third party may assert apply to any version of the manuscript.
For open-access articles: Springer Nature uses Creative Commons licenses and the published version can be archived in funders and institutional repositories upon publication.
For subscribed access papers: Springer Nature operates under exclusive license to publish agreements with its research authors. Authors retain copyright of their original research papers. Springer Nature permits the authors of original research papers to self-archive the accepted version of their manuscript, with a release date of 6 months post-publication. This is compliant with all major funders' access policies and mandates.
Springer Nature automatically deposits open access articles in PubMed Central (PMC) and Europe PubMed Central (EPMC) on publication, if the article meets the PMC deposition guidelines. For subscription articles supported by selected funders, Springer Nature also offers deposition of the accepted manuscript to PMC and EPMC on behalf of authors who opt in to this service during submission. More information is available on our Springer Nature OA policies page.
