1. Open Access Statement

Research of Soil and Water Conservation is an open access journal. All articles published in this journal will be immediately and permanently free for all readers to read and download via the journal's official website, and all readers can freely copy, disseminate and use the articles of this journal under the premise of abiding by the licensing policy of the journal (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

2. Licensing Policy

Research of Soil and Water Conservation adopts following license: Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), which allows all users to freely copy and distribute all articles of the journal in any medium or format, as long as the license terms below are followed:

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3. Copyright Policy

After the article is officially accepted by the journal, the authors are required to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement with the Editorial Department of Research of Soil and Water Conservation to transfer the copyright to the Editorial Department. Thus, the copyright of the article will belong to the Editorial Department. However, the authors have right to use the article under the license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) adopted by the journal.

The Copyright Transfer Agreement that authors need to sign can be found in the "Download" page on this website.