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The Source is managed by Springer’s Author & Partner Marketing and Services team, comprised of teammates from around the world. We’re a small but mighty team with a lot to say: To authors, to editors, reviewers, OA advocates, early career researchers—the research community in its entirety.

To get a feel for the nature of the blog, please visit our inaugural post: “Introducing The Source: Our Core Principles and What to Expect

Hear us out. Talk to us—we’re listening. Feel free to leave comments or contact us directly through the “Contact us” tab. We only ask that you first read and review our community guidelines below:

Community Guidelines

By commenting on our blogs, you are agreeing to abide by the following community guidelines. Although we will do our utmost to avoid this, The Source admins reserve the right to delete, move or otherwise alter comments posted by users if they are deemed to violate these Guidelines.

We ask that you:

  • Keep comments to the subject matter of the post on which you are commenting.
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You are responsible for the content of any messages that you post.

You can complain about any comments that break the guidelines by emailing thesource@springer.com. We will monitor this inbox during office hours. We will respond to or act on all complaints within 48 hours.

About Copyright and Third Party Rights

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Restricting Access

  • Provided you stick to these common sense rules you may continue to access our blogs.
  • We reserve the right to remove any comment breaking these rules without prior contact with the author. Our right to remove any post is not restricted to the reasons explicitly mentioned in these Guidelines.
  • If you are responsible for any breach of these guidelines it will not be an excuse to say that you did not read them.
  • As a last resort we may issue a ban (either temporary or permanent) if it becomes evident that you are unwilling to keep to these guidelines. This will only occur if we feel it is necessary to protect others or the integrity of the blogs.

General

We reserve the right to change these guidelines at any time. The current version of these Guidelines will always be available here in the about section. If you are uncertain about anything in them, please email us at thesource@springer.com or through the “Contact us” tab.

We will try to ensure the Website’s availability, but shall not be liable if for any reason the Website is unavailable for any period.

Disclaimer

Comments posted on our blogs, by persons other than the post authors, are those of the individual and in no way represent the views of Springer.

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