1. Open Access
Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science) is an open access journal. All articles in this journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License. All articles are published in open access format according toCC BY-NC-ND 4.0License. Articles published from 1980 to now on the official website (http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/, http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/en/) permanent free open to the readers, allowing users to read, download, copy, print, search, obtain a link to the full text of the article, or use them for other legitimate purposes.
It must be maintained the authors’names, their institutes, and the information of issues. volumes of the journal where the paper was published on, when using them. The usage is just only for the non-commercial purpose. The papers published cannot be modified or used to create derivative works.
Readers or authors can log on the official website of our journal to get the full text of the article or browse the back issue.
APC and Remuneration:
In order to support open access publishing, Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science) collects article publishing charge (APC), which needs to be paid by the author or his institution, fund funded projects, etc. According to statistical data from articles published in this journal, the total cost of publishing each article is approximately 3,000 CNY, with a maximum of 3,500 CNY. You can find the details regarding fees in thePublication Feessection. After publication, we will pay remuneration and send sample issue immediately.
2. License Agreement
3. Copyright Policies
The corresponding author should make sure that the submitted manuscript has been approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission to Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science) and the order of authorship. All the authors will be asked to sign the Copyright Assignment after the paper is accepted by Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science). Once accepted, all authors will be required to sign a copyright transfer agreement. By submitting a paper to the journal, authors agree to publish the paper in the journal and online, and agree to the copyright transfer agreement of the journal.
(1) The journal possess the right to review, delete and modify manuscripts.
(2) The authors agree to automatically transfer the publishing copyright, distribution right, reproduction right, online dissemination right, translation right, compiling right, producing right, exhibition right and broadcast right to Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science) after acceptance, also including rights of any forms of printed, electronic, multi-media, online publishing etc.
(3) The journal has been included and disseminated by CAJD, Wanfang, CSTJ, Chaoxing,U.S. CA, U.K. INSPEC, Russian VINITIRAN and other foreign databases, The remuneration paid by the journal includes the usage fee of paper copyright.
(4) The author may use all or part of the article content in his/her subsequent articles.
(5) The author maintains the trademark and patent rights regarding the article.
(6) The author may use the article for other activities authorized by the Editorial Office.
If the article is not ultimately published in this journal, the signed Copyright Transfer Agreement will be automatically invalidated, and the copyright of the article will still belong to the author.
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