Springer Nature terms of use for archived author accepted manuscripts (AAMs) of subscription articles, books and chapters

For articles, books and chapters published within the Springer Nature group of companies that have been archived into academic repositories such as institutional repositories, PubMed Central and its mirror sites, where a Springer Nature company holds copyright, or an exclusive license to publish, users may view, print, copy, download and text and data-mine the content, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full conditions of use. Any further use is subject to permission from Springer Nature. The conditions of use are not intended to override, should any national law grant further rights to any user.

Conditions of use

Articles, books and chapters published within the Springer Nature group of companies which are made available through academic repositories remain subject to copyright. Any further use is subject to permission from Springer Nature. The following restrictions on use of such articles, books and chapters apply:

Academic research only

1.    Archived content may only be used for academic research. Any content downloaded for text based experiments should be destroyed when the experiment is complete.

Use must not be for Commercial Purposes

2.    Archived content may not be used for purposes that are intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation by means of sale, resale, licence, loan, transfer or any other form of commercial exploitation ("Commercial Purposes").

Wholesale re-publishing is prohibited

3.    Archived content may not be published verbatim in whole or in part, whether or not this is done for Commercial Purposes, either in print or online.  
4.    This restriction does not apply to reproducing normal quotations with an appropriate citation.  In the case of text-mining, individual words, concepts and quotes up to 100 words per matching sentence may be used, whereas longer paragraphs of text and images cannot (without specific permission from Springer Nature).

Moral rights

5.    All use must be fully attributed.  Attribution must take the form of a link - using the article DOI - to the published article on the journal's website.
6.    All use must ensure that the authors' moral right to the integrity of their work is not compromised.

Third party content

7.    Where content in the document is identified as belonging to a third party, it is the obligation of the user to ensure that any use complies with copyright policies of the owner.

Use at own risk

8.    Any use of Springer Nature content is at your own risk and Springer Nature accepts no liability arising from such use.