Copyright and OA Policy
1. Open Access：Electric Power Construction flipped to an open access journal in 2023. Since the first issue of 2023, once published, all articles are immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge. Articles published from the 11th issue of 2010 to 2022 are turned to open access works, which can be read and downloaded free of charge on this website. Articles published in the 10th issue 2010 and before are not open access, for which the copyrights belong to the editorial department of this journal.
2. OA Licensing: Electric Power Construction is an open access journal and adopts the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. This allows third-party users to copy and distribute the open access papers of the journal in any medium or format. When copying and distributing papers from the journal, third-party users must provide appropriate attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate whether any modifications have been made to the original paper. Attribution should be done in a reasonable manner, but should not imply endorsement by the journal. The papers from the journal cannot be used for commercial purposes. If the papers are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified material cannot be distributed. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
3. Copyright Transfer: All authors should sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement and agree to transfer the copyright of the submitted article to the Editorial Department of Electric Power Construction and agree that the editorial department has right to use the copyright and publish the article for the first time. The specific rights include but are not limited to the right of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination, and adaptation. Authors agree that the article can be posted, disseminated, and used in necessary forms on various media, platforms, and terminals for promotion and exchange. Authors agree that the article can be published online first before published in the print journal. Authors should agree to the open access policy of this journal. Re-users can reproduce and disseminate this article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. Except for situations described in CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, authors can no longer use the rights that have been transferred. However, authors may cite or translate the content of the article in their subsequent works, or compile it in their non-journal collections.
4. Archive：,The soft and hard copies of each issue are archived in the editorial department. In order to ensure data security, all information has also been backed up in the editorial department. Hard and soft copies of each issue of the journal are kept in the editorial department for archiving. In addition, other relevant materials are also kept by the editorial department, such as supplementary information and forms provided by the authors. he journal’s articles can also be downloaded in full text from databases including CNKI, Wanfang and Weipu.[PL1] If the journal and the website were closed, archived data could be retrieved through those full-text databases.
5. Data Sharing: The authors are encouraged to publish or share their research data whenever appropriate. Data sharing is helpful for experiment replication and data reuse. The data for sharing may include original data, observation records, experimental results, etc. The journal also encourages the sharing of software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods and other useful materials. The authors can upload the materials above to an accessible third-party repository and make a proper citation or add a link at the end of the article.
