Open Access Statement

  

Journal of China Agricultural University (JACU) has been an open access journal since January 1， 2014, which means that all content and archived material published （before and after 2014-01-01）are freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author.

 

For all open access articles published by this journal, permitted authors and third-party reuse of the articles is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms below are followed: reusers need to provide a link to the license and indicate if changes were made. Reusers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use. Reusers may not use the material for commercial purposes. If reusers remix, transform, or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material.

 

Articles published by JACU  before January 1, 2014 also follow the open access principles and under the same CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license for resusers.