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Many journals allows one to post an author's accepted manuscript online, provided some embargo period has lapsed and an acknowledgment is included. For example, for Springer Nature journals, an acknowledgement of the following form should be included:

“This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [insert journal title]. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/[insert DOI]”.

I have two question about arXiv.

Question 1: Is it enough to include this acknowledgement in arXiv's Comments section, without including it in the source file?

Question 2: Is it OK not to write the sentence above altogether, but to fill out arXiv's Journal reference and DOI fields?

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  • Probably going to depend on the journal. And also the country the journal is published in. And maybe the country the author is in. Copyright is a messy complicated and varied subject.
    – puppetsock
    Commented Jul 23, 2021 at 19:06
  • About question 2, the journal says you should include the statement, so why would you think it’s okay not to include it?
    – Dan Romik
    Commented Jul 23, 2021 at 20:04
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    No need to do too much hairsplitting. The journals want a link to the published version and a clear statement of the status of the arXiv version. Was anyone ever sued for incorrectly formatting this statement or putting it in the wrong place?
    – Sylvain Ribault
    Commented Jul 24, 2021 at 19:39

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Question 1: Copyright statements should go into the full text. Copyright statements should not appear in arXiv's metadata (scroll down a little).

Question 2: Please do fill in the metadata with the Journal-ref and the journal-assigned DOI.

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