Copyright & Licensing - Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science)

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 to CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. 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 deducted and created again.

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 the Publication Fee section. After publication, we will pay remuneration and send sample issue immediately.

2. License Agreement

Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science)uses the Creative Commons license agreement, and?allows third-party users to share according to the signature (BY), non-commercial use (NC), no interpretation (ND) (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Immediately after publication, the articles can be published and permanently posted on the official website of the Journal (http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/, http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/en/) free access (including PDF and HTML version) allows the user to read, download, copy, print, search or link to the full article, or use it for other lawful purposes.For more detailed content of this license agreement, please visit:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.zh

（1）This is not done for commercial purposes or distribution of articles if edited.

（2）The user has appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI) and can provide a link to the license but not in any way implying that the licensor is endorsing the user or the use of the work.

（3）No derivatives including remix, transform, or build upon the material was allowed for distribution.?

（4）The author and the third party share the same license rights according to CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. The authors have the right to store their articles in the institutional repository.

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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