Open Access
Acta Botanica Boreal-Occidentalia Sinica flipped to an open access journal in 2022. Since 2022, once published, all articles will be immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge. Permitted third party reuse of the articles published by the journal is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 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 must give appropriate credit, 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. The authors have right to spread or make use of the article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Articles before 2022 are not open access. Full text of some articles is available on the journal’s website for readers to read and download free of charge. The copyright of these articles before to the editorial department. Readers may also access to CNKI, Wanfang, CQ VIP for full text of the journal’s articles.
Copyright Transfer
Authors are required to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement after the manuscript is accepted by the journal. All authors shall agree to transfer the copyright of the article to the Editorial Department of Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica, for worldwide use. The Editorial Department of Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica has right to use the article, including but not limited to: right of compilation (in whole or in part), right of distribution, right of reproduction in print and electronic edition, right of translation, and right of information network dissemination. The Editorial Department of Acta Botanica Boreali-Occidentalia Sinica is also permitted to allow the inclusion of the articles in domestic and foreign literature retrieval systems or databases.
Archive
All journal articles published since 2022 can be downloaded from this website free of charge, and are open access. Articles published before 2022 are not open access, while some of the articles can be searched and read on this website. In order to ensure data security, all information has also been backed up in the editorial department. The hard and soft copy of each issue of the journal had been 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.
The full text of articles published by this journal are also accessible on platforms including the “China Journals Network Full-text Database (China Academic Journals - CD-ROM Edition)”(CNKI）， “China Core Journals (Selection) Database (Wanfang Data-Digital Journals Group),” “Chinese Science and Technology Journals Database (Chongqing Weipu Information Co.,Ltd., Southwest Information Center, Ministry of Science and Technology),” Taiwan Huayi Chinese Electronic Periodical Service-CEPS, and Chaoxing Journal Database.
Open Science and Data Sharing
The editorial department strives to respect the protection of intellectual property and requires editors, authors and reviewers to do so. Any potential infringement should be avoided. Third-party infringement to the intellectual property of the journal is prohibited. On the premise of intellectual property protection, the journal encourages the practice of open science. Authors are encouraged to publish or share their research data whenever appropriate. 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. 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.
