Open Access
1. Open Access Statement
Leather Science and Engineering officially flipped to a fully open access journal using the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license agreement in 2022. All new articles published in this journal from Issue 1, 2022 onwards are open access works, which are permanently available for free access to all users on the journal's official website immediately after publication.
Leather Science and Engineering adopts the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Users may copy and distribute the open access articles published in this journal in any medium or format, as long as they comply with the terms of this license:
When copying and distributing the articles, users must provide appropriate attribution, provide a link to the license, and indicate whether any changes have been made to the original article. Users may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal endorses the use. In addition, the relevant articles must not be used for commercial purposes. If the articles are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified articles must not be distributed. For more detailed information about this license, please visit:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
2. Article Archiving & Availability
Starting from the first issue of 2022, all articles published in this journal are open access work under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Upon publication, these articles are immediately and permanently archived on the official website of the journal and are available for free to all users.
Prior to 2022, articles in this journal were published under a non-open access model and are therefore not open access works. The full texts of most of these articles are archived on the journal's official website and are available for free full-text download (see Archive). Please note that the full texts of some articles may not be archived on the journal's official website due to their vintage. Readers who require access to these articles may visit databases such as China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to obtain their full texts, subject to a fee.
3. Author Self-Archiving
Authors are permitted to self-archive their articles. Authors may deposit all versions of their articles in an institution or other knowledge repository of their choice. However, it should be clearly indicated in the repository that the article was originally published in Leather Science and Engineering.
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