Open Access
This journal is a peer reviewed, subsidized open access journal where Beijing Normal University pays the OA fee permanently. Authors do not have to pay any open access publication fee.
Peer review under the responsibility of Beijing Normal University.
Access Rights
All articles published open access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read, download, copy and distribute.
User Rights
Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following Creative Commons user licenses.
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/.
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY)
Let others 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/
Author Rights
For open access publishing, this journal uses a licensing agreement. For the single article, Authors will transfer copyright to Beijing Normal University, and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. and Beijing Normal University will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.
Publishing Schedule
This journal is published quarterly; March, June, September, and December.
Contact details
Aixia Feng
geoheritage@126.com; geoheritage@bnu.edu.cn