Correction to: Empirical Software Engineering (2020) 25:940–995

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09741-6

The article “Characterizing the transfer of program comprehension in onboarding: an information-push perspective”, written by Rebecca Yates, Norah Power, Jim Buckley, was originally published Online First without Open Access. After publication in volume 25, issue 1, page 940–995 the author decided to opt for Open Choice and to make the article an Open Access publication. Therefore, the copyright of the article has been changed to © The Author(s) 2021 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons licence CC BY, which allows readers to copy, distribute and transmit the Article as long as it is attributed back to the author. Readers are permitted to alter, transform or build upon the Article, and to use the Article for commercial purposes. Please read the full licence for further details at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.