Open Access

Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Natural Science) is an open access journal. All publicly published articles can be accessed through the official website of this journal at http://clgzk.qks.cqut.edu.cn for free, permanently for everyone to read and download. Readers are also allowed to freely copy, distribute and use these articles under the CC BY-NC-ND license agreement,.

Publication Fees

To support open-access publishing, Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Natural Science) charges a publication fee (Article Processing Charge, APC). The fee ranges from 4200 to 8000 yuan per article. The publication fee covers peer-review fees, editing fees, typesetting fees, printing fees, and the delivery cost of complimentary journal copies and so on. After paying the APC, no additional fees will be charged by the journal.

License Policy

Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Natural Science) adopts the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0" (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license agreement, allowing third-party users to copy and distribute the open access articles of this journal in any medium or format, as long as they comply with the terms of this license agreement: Third-party users must provide appropriate attribution and a link to the license, and indicate whether any changes have been made to the original article. Attribution may be displayed in any reasonable ways, but not in any way that suggests endorsement by this journal. The articles from this journal must not be used for commercial purposes. If the articles from this journal are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified articles may not be distributed. For more detailed information about this license agreement, please visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Authors’ Rights

After acceptance, authors are required to sign a "Copyright Transfer Agreement" with the editorial office, transferring the copyright of the article to the Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Natural Science). The copyright will belong to the editorial office of the Journal of Chongqing University of Technology (Natural Science). After publication, authors have the following rights:

1) Authors may, according to the journal's licensing agreement (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), copy, distribute, and use their articles for non-commercial purposes such as academic discussions, exchanges, presentations, lectures, etc.

2) Authors may also allow third parties to share their articles (e.g., stored in institutional repositories) and use them for other academic purposes under the Creative Commons license agreement.

If the submitted manuscript is not ultimately published in this journal, the aforementioned agreement signed by the authors will automatically become void.