Open Access



This journal is a peer reviewed, subsidized open access journal where University of Science and Technology Beijing pays the OA fee. Authors do not have to pay any open access publication fee.
Peer review under the responsibility of University of Science and Technology Beijing.

Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

User Rights
A CC user license manages the reuse of the article. Articles will be published under one of the following licenses according to author's choice:

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)

Allow others to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from the Article, to alter and revise the Article, and to make commercial use of the Article (including reuse and/or resale of the Article by commercial entities), provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, indicates if changes were made and the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)

For non-commercial purposes, lets others distribute and copy the article, and to include in a collective work (such as an anthology), as long as they credit the author(s) and provided they do not alter or modify the article. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. For the single article, Authors will transfer the copyright to the University of Science and Technology Beijing, but will have the right to reuse the article on the terms of their selected end user license, and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. and the University of Science and Technology Beijing will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.

Contact details
Dr. Siran Liu
Email: siran.liu@ustb.edu.cn
Phone: +86-10-6233 4901
Address: Institute for Cultural Heritage and History of Science & Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 30 Xueyuan Road, Beijing, China

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