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Intergovernmental Organisation (IGO) Licence and Copyright

If you do not own the rights to your contribution to an article because the paper derives from a work conducted within your employment with an IGO, a non-standard licence agreement is required.


Licence: All Springer Nature journals with an open access option offer intergovernmental organisation (IGO) versions of Creative Commons licences on request, where required by the author’s employer.


Copyright: When an IGO owns the copyright, you should not sign a standard licence agreement during the Next steps for publishing your article. Instead, you will need to request a Non-Standard Copyright and the correct agreement will be created for you manually. 


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