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Copyright and Licensing Policy |
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Upon acceptance, the corresponding author will be required to sign an Open Access Agreement with the NFHD.
- Author Rights: Authors retain the copyright to their work.
- License to Publish: Authors grant the NFHD a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
- Public License: The article will be immediately and permanently made available online under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
- This license allows anyone to copy, redistribute, remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided appropriate credit is given to the original authors and source.
Exceptions to Policy
For articles that were previously published under different policies (e.g., co-published works), different licensing conditions may apply. In all cases, the specific license terms will be clearly displayed on the published article.
For any questions regarding copyright or licensing, please contact the editorial office.
Copyright and License
When an author submits a manuscript for publishing they will need to sign a license agreement with Springer Nature to allow us to publish their article. According to this agreement:
- authors of articles published in Springer Nature journals retain the copyright of their articles.
- authors grant Springer Nature a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher.
- authors will retain broad re-use rights to their article content for their future publications.
- when Springer Nature publishes the article we will apply a Creative Commons licence allowing re-use of the article by third parties for particular purposes.
You may also wish to find out about licence variations available to meet funder and institutional OA licence requirements. Learn more in our guide to licensing, copyright and author rights for journal articles.
Exceptions to copyright policy
Our policy pages provide details concerning copyright and licensing for articles which were previously published under policies that are different from the above. For instance, occasionally BMC may co-publish articles jointly with other publishers, and different licensing conditions may then apply. In all such cases, however, access to these articles is free from fees or any other access restrictions.
Information specifically regarding permissions and reprints can be found here. Please contact us if there are questions.
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