Open Access
This journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by University of Science and Technology Beijing, Peking University, and China Rural Special Technology Association. University of Science and Technology Beijing retains copyright of the overall compiled journal and the compiled issues. The article is universally and freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity, in an easily readable format immediately after publication.
To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The open access publication fee （plus taxes） is USD 2,000 for full-length and review articles (waived if invited for reviews), and USD 1,500 for short communications, perspectives, case reports, data articles, and protocols. APCs are waived for commentaries, correspondence, editorials, and news. All APCs for articles submitted to the journal before the 01-01-2029 will be fully waived.
Peer review under the responsibility of Editorial Office of Originality, 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)
Let 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 retain copyright alongside scholarly usage rights, and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. and Editorial Office of Originality, University of Science and Technology Beijing will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.
Publishing Schedule
This journal is published quarterly in the first year.
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Contact Detail
Name/Title: Xiangyuan Wan/ Professor
Email address: originality@ustb.edu.cn
Role: Editor in Chief