Open Access
This journal is a peer reviewed, fully open access journal owned by East China Normal University (ECNU). ECNU 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 has an open access fee (also known as an Article Processing Charge, APC) which needs to be paid by the authors or on their behalf e.g. by their research funder or institution. The open access publication fee for this journal is USD 1000, plus taxes. All APCs for articles submitted to the journal before the 31 August 2027 will be fully waived.
Peer review under the responsibility of the Editorial Board of TAO.
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（http://www.elsevier.com/openaccesslicenses）. Articles will be published under the following license:
Creative Commons Attribution – Non-Commercial 4.0 (CC BY- NC)
Allows users to copy, to create extracts, abstracts and new works from the Article, to alter and revise the Article, and to make non-commercial use of the Article, 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-nc/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 East China Normal University (ECNU) and KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. (KeAi) will be granted non-exclusive publishing and distribution rights.
Publishing Schedule
This journal will adopt continuous publishing policy and produce two virtual collections per year.
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Contact Detail
Editorial Office of TAO,
tao@mail.ecnu.edu.cn,
East China Normal University, Shanghai