Self-Archiving & Sharing Policies

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Authors published in our journals can share their research by posting a draft copy of their article to a repository or similar website. There are some guidelines, which vary depending on the version you wish to share.

Preprints

• • Authors can share their preprint anywhere at any time.
• • If accepted for publication, we encourage authors to link from the preprint to the final version of their article via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI).
• NOTE:
  • • Some society-owned journals have different preprint policies. Please contact the society directly for more information.
  • • Preprints should not be used as a substitute for the final version of article.

Accepted Manuscripts
Authors can share their accepted manuscript:

Immediately

• • via a link on their non-commercial personal homepage
• • by updating a preprint with a link to the accepted manuscript
• • via their research institute or institutional repository for internal institutional use
• • directly by providing copies to their students or to research collaborators for their personal use

After a 12-month embargo period

• • via non-commercial hosting platforms such as their institutional repository

ALL accepted manuscripts should:

• • cite the journal and link to the formal publication via its DOI
• • bear a CC-BY-NC-ND license – For more information, visit the Creative Commons website
• • not be used as a substitute for the final published version of the journal article

Published Journal Articles
Policies for sharing published journal articles differ for subscription/society and SPC Open articles:

Subscription/Society articles

• • Authors are asked to share a link to your article rather than the full-text
• • Authors may also share the final published version of their article privately with known students or colleagues for their personal use
• • Authors may use their article for classroom teaching and internal training at their institution (including use in course packs and similar programs)
• • Authors may include the article for grant funding purposes

SPC Open Articles

• • Open access articles published in Springer Publishing owned journals are available under the terms of a Creative Commons user license. The standard license used for SPC Open articles is the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial No Derivative (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allows readers to disseminate and reuse the article. This license does not permit reuse for any commercial purposes nor does it cover the reuse or modification of individual elements of the work in the creation of derivative works without first requesting and being granted permission by Springer Publishing.
• • Authors whose work is funded by other organizations which require publication under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and authors who require an alternate form of Creative Commons Attribution license should contact the publisher directly. For more information about Creative Commons Attribution please visit http://creativecommons.org

General Conditions
The above self-archiving and sharing policy for journal articles is for non-commercial and non-promotional research and study by individual users. Such use may not compromise the authors’ rights and must adhere to copyright policies.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Springer Publishing does not allow the posting or sharing of book chapters. Book authors and contributors may post a summary of their contribution on their personal or institutional site. For special considerations, authors may contact their editor directly.

Updated June 2018