Open Access
Journal of Shenyang Agricultural University flipped to an open access journal in 2024, using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. All articles published in the journal from Issue 1 of 2024 onward are open access works, which are archived on the journal's official website immediately after publication and are permanently available to all users free of charge.
Please note that articles published before 2024 are not open access. The copyright of these articles belongs to the editorial department of the journal, and all rights are reserved by the editorial department. Users who require these articles may access them through platforms such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure (https://www.cnki.net/) on a paid basis.
2. Open Access License
The journal uses the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which allows all users to copy, distribute, and use the open access articles published in the journal in any media and format, provided that they follow the terms of the license, including:
When copying and distributing the open access articles published in the journal, users must provide appropriate attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate if any changes have been made to the original article. Attribution may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal endorses the use. The articles cannot be used for commercial purposes. If the articles are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified articles cannot be distributed. For more detailed information on this license, please visit:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
3. Copyright Policy
Once a manuscript is accepted, authors are required to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement provided by the journal. According to this agreement, all authors agree to transfer the copyright of the article (including but not limited to the rights of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination, broadcasting, performance, translation, compilation, adaptation, etc.) to the Editorial Department of Journal of Shenyang Agricultural University for use. The effective scope of the copyright transfer is worldwide and cover the duration of the copyright protection period. The Editorial Department will be the copyright holder of the article.
After an article is published in the journal, the author(s) of the article will have the right to use the article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
4. Author Self-Archiving
Authors are allowed to store all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of their choice. In the repository, it should be indicated that the article was originally published in the Journal of Shenyang Agricultural University.