Open Access
This journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by Chongqing University. Chongqing University retains copyright of the overall compiled journal and the compiled issues. The article is universally and freely accessible via the internet in perpetuity, in an easily readable format immediately after publication.
To provide open access, this journal is a subsidized open access journal where Chongqing University pays for the publishing costs incurred by the journal.
Peer review under the responsibility of Editorial Board of Earth Energy Science.
Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.
User Rights
A CC user license manages the reuse of the article (see http://www.elsevier.com/openaccesslicenses). Articles will be published under both of the CC BY and CC BY-NC-ND according to author's choice:
Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) ):
Allows users to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from the Article, to alter and revise the Article and to make commercial use of the Article (including reuse and/or resale of the Article by commercial entities), provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, indicates if changes were made and the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND):
Allows users to copy and distribute the Article, provided this is not done for commercial purposes and further does not permit distribution of the Article if it is changed or edited in any way, and provided the user gives appropriate credit (with a link to the formal publication through the relevant DOI), provides a link to the license, and that the licensor is not represented as endorsing the use made of the work. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. For the single article, Authors will retain copyright alongside scholarly usage rights, and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. and Editorial Board of Earth Energy Science will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights. For more information about copyright please find the details on https://www.elsevier.com/copyright
Publishing Schedule
This journal is published quarterly per year.
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Contact Detail
Chaozhong Qin
Chongqing University, 174 Shazhengjie Street, Shapingba District, Chongqing, 400044, China
