Open Access - Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science)

The Journal of Zhengzhou University (Engineering Science) is an open access and double-blind peer-review journal. All content in this journal is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 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/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.

Instructions for Free Access and Use: All users should follow the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 License as a prerequisite when using articles in this journal. The License allows users to copy and distribute articles under the term of:

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.Please follow the link (https://creativecommons.net.cn/licenses/meet-the-licenses/) for details.

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.

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. Based on the statistics of articles published in the journal, the total fee for the publication of each article is generally in the range of 2800 CNY, not more than 3000 CNY. You can find the details regarding fees in the Charging Standards section. After publication, we will pay remuneration and send sample issue immediately.

2. License Agreement

Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license:Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International(CC BY-NC-ND)。

Authors sign an agreement granting the Publisher to publish the article under the CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Commons). works which means the published article can be made public immediately and download permanently for free on the official website of the journal (http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/, http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/en/). The authors allow the user read,download, copy, print, search and link to the full text of an article, or use it for other legitimate purposes.

Notablely, the authors’names, organization information and the issue information of our journal must be retained in the using process. It is only for non-commercial purposes and can not deductive creation.

In addition, the author can use the article for any other non-commercial purposes.

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). The author’s contribution to this journal shall be deemed as his agreeent to publish in this journal and online, and his agreeent with this journal’s statement on the copyright.

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 ctc.

3) The journal has been included and disseminated by CAJD, Wanfang, CSTJ, Chaoxing and other domestic databases, U.S. CA, U.K. INSPEC, Russian VINITIRAN academic database and other foreign databases,The remuneration paid by the journal includes the usage fee of paper copyright.

4) The journal and authors allow the third-party user to share in the ways of signature(BY). non-commercial use(NC) and no deduction(ND)(CC BY-NC-ND) works which means the published article can be made public immediately and download permanently for free on the official website of the journal (http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/, http://gxb.zzu.edu.cn/en/). The authors allow the user read, download, copy, print, search and link to the full text of an article, or use it for other legitimate purposes.

5) Notablely, the authors’ names, organization information and the issue information of our journal must be retained in the using process. It is only for non-commercial purposes and can not deductive creation. In addition, the author can use the article for any other non-commercial purposes.

6) The author may use all or part of the article content in his/her subsequent articles.

7) The author maintains the trademark and patent rights regarding the article.

8)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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4.Self-archiving Policy

It is allowed for authors to deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of the authors’choice. However, it is necessary to indicate the publication information of the article in the metadata within the institutional or other repository and use that as the recommended way of citation.