The editorial policies of Nature Portfolio encompass various important topics related to content publication and licensing. These policies apply to all journals published by Nature Portfolio, including the journal Nature and journals carrying the name “Nature”. Nature Portfolio policies align with the majority of open access and self-archiving policies of funders.
Author Licensing Policy for the Nature Portfolio Group
Nature Portfolio requires authors of original research (basic research) not to assign copyright for their published contributions. Authors grant Nature Portfolio an exclusive license to publish, and in return, they may reuse their papers in their future published works without needing permission from the journal publisher.
Creative Commons Licenses
Open access articles in Nature Portfolio journals are published under the CC BY (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License). Under the Creative Commons license, authors retain copyright for their articles. The CC BY license is the most open license and is considered the gold standard in the open access industry. It allows for maximum dissemination and reuse of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license, users have the right to share (copy, distribute, and transmit) and adapt (remix) the contribution, including for commercial purposes, provided that the contribution is attributed in the manner specified by the author or licensor (read the full legal code). All Springer Nature journals that offer open access options provide versions for international governmental organizations (IGO) of Creative Commons licenses upon request, which requires the author’s employing organization.
Self-Archiving Policy
Nature Portfolio policies align with the majority of open access and self-archiving requirements from funders. Nature Portfolio journals encourage authors to post preprints of basic research manuscripts on preprint servers of their choice, or on their personal or institutional websites, and to engage in open communication between researchers either on community preprint servers or preprint commenting platforms.
Preprints are defined as the version prepared by the researcher before formal peer review in a journal, which is deposited on a public server (as outlined in Preprints for the life sciences. Science 352, 899–901; 2016). Preprints can be posted at any time during the peer review process. Posting a preprint is not considered prior publication and will not affect consideration for publication in Nature Portfolio journals. Manuscripts posted on preprint servers will not be taken into account when determining the progress that is provided by a study under consideration in a Nature Portfolio journal.
Springer Nature’s partnership with Research Square (where Springer Nature has a majority interest in Research Square) provides In Review, an integrated solution for sharing preprints, and supports researchers across all the communities we serve to share their research early. Authors submitting to some Springer Nature journals can also share information regarding their peer review via In Review. More information about the In Review application on Nature journals can be found here; general information about In Review at Springer Nature and the Research Square preprint platform can be found here and here.
Authors must disclose details of preprint publication, including the digital object identifier and license terms, when submitting their manuscript or at any time during the consideration in a Nature Portfolio journal. Once a preprint is published, the author is responsible for ensuring that the preprint record is updated to reference the publication, including the digital object identifier and a URL link to the published article on the journal’s website.
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Authors are free to choose any license they wish for the preprint, including Creative Commons licenses. The type of license selected will affect how the preprint can be shared and reused. More information to aid in making licensing decisions can be found in the ASAPbio Task Force on Licensing documents.
Preprints can be cited in the reference lists of manuscripts under consideration in Nature Portfolio journals as shown below:
Babichev, S. A., Ries, J. & Lvovsky, A. I. Quantum scissors: teleportation of single-mode optical states by means of a nonlocal single photon. Preprint at http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0208066 (2002).
Authors publishing preprints are asked to respect the media communication policy. Researchers may respond to requests from the media in relation to the preprints or conference presentations by providing an explanation or clarification of the work, or information about its context. In these cases, editorial media coverage of the article will not be hindered. However, researchers should be aware that such coverage may reduce other media coverage at the time of publication. We also advise researchers who are approached by journalists to respond clearly that the paper has not yet undergone peer review, and the results are preliminary and may change. More information to assist in responsible communication of reported research in preprints can be found in the ASAPbio Preprints in the Public Eye project documents.
Self-Archiving Policy for Articles Published by Subscription
When an article is accepted for publication in a Nature Portfolio journal by subscription, authors are allowed to store the accepted manuscript on their personal website and/or in their funder or institutional repository for public disclosure six months after the publication date. Authors should reference the publication citation and DOI on the first page of any deposited version and provide a link from it to the URL of the published article on the journal’s website.
In cases where journals publish content online before print publication (known as Advance Online Publication or AOP), authors may make the archived version publicly available after six months of online publication (AOP).
Please note that the accepted manuscript may not be released under a Creative Commons license. More information and guidelines on self-archiving for articles published by subscription can be found on the journals’ open access policy page. For the terms of use for accepted manuscripts from Springer Nature, please see: https://www.nature.com/nature-research/editorial-policies/self-archiving-and-license-to-publish#terms-for-use.
Self-Archiving Policy for Open Access Articles
For open access content published under a Creative Commons license, authors are encouraged to deposit the published version immediately after publication, along with a link to the URL of the published article on the journal’s website.
In all cases, the linking requirements to the journal’s website are designed to protect the integrity and quality of the scholarly record, as the online version on nature.com is designated as the final and officially recognized version.
Manuscript Deposit Service
To assist authors in complying with various funder and institutional requirements, Nature Portfolio deposits manuscripts of original research papers in PubMed Central and Europe PubMed Central on behalf of authors who choose this free service during submission. (This service does not apply to reviews or protocols.) This service may only be used by authors listed in the participating funders on our website.
Further information about the manuscript deposit service is available from Nature Portfolio. To take advantage of this service, the corresponding author must choose it during the manuscript submission process. The corresponding author should be aware of all self-archiving requirements for participating authors.
Conditions
Use of Accepted Manuscripts Archived for Open Access Published Articles
For articles published within the Springer Nature group of companies that have been archived in academic repositories such as institutional repositories and PubMed Central and their mirror sites, where Springer Nature holds copyright, or an exclusive license to publish, users may view, print, copy, download, and extract text and data from the content for academic research purposes, in accordance with the full terms of use. Any use requires permission from Springer Nature. The terms of use are not intended to override any national law that grants additional rights to any user.
The following restrictions apply to the use of these articles:
- The archived content may only be used for academic research. Any content downloaded for text-based experiments must be destroyed upon completion of the experiment.
- The archived content may not be used for commercial purposes aimed at financial gain through sale, resale, licensing, lending, transfer, or any other form of commercial exploitation (“Commercial Purposes”).
- The archived content may not be published in whole or in part, whether for commercial purposes or otherwise, whether in print or online.
- This restriction does not apply to the reproduction of ordinary quotations with appropriate citation. In the case of text mining, words, concepts, and quotations of up to 100 words per matching sentence may be used, while longer text passages and images may not be used (without specific permission from Springer Nature).
- All uses must be fully attributed. The attribution must take the form of a link – using the article’s digital object identifier – to the published article on the journal’s site.
- All uses must ensure that the authors’ rights to the integrity of their work are not compromised.
- In cases where content is identified in the document as the property of a third party, the user must ensure that any use complies with the copyright policies of the owner.
- Any use of Springer Nature content is at the user’s own risk, and Springer Nature shall not be liable for any consequences resulting from such use.
The original presentation text of the article is available on the official Nature Portfolio website.
Source: https://www.nature.com/nature-research/editorial-policies/self-archiving-and-license-to-publish
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