Open Access

This is an open access journal: all articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. To provide open access, this journal has an open access fee (also known as an article publishing charge APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for this journal is USD 1200, excluding taxes.
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All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
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Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses an exclusive licensing agreement. Authors will retain copyright but license exclusive rights in their article to International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, the China Water and Power Press, and China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research. Authors have the right to share their article in the same ways permitted to third parties under the relevant user license, as well as certain scholarly usage rights.