Founded: 1984
Publication Frequency: Monthly
Governing Body: Changjiang Water Resources Commission, Ministry of Water Resources
Sponsor: Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute, Changjiang Water Resources Commission
ISSN 1001-5485
CN 42-1171/TV
Postal Distribution Code: 38-147
Subscription: Available at post offices nationwide
Open Access Statement
To support global knowledge sharing and exchange, Journal of Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute implements long-term open access and preservation of its digital resources. In 2023, the journal flipped to an open access publication using the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. From Issue 1 of 2023 onward, once an article is published in the journal, it is immediately and permanently archived in PDF format on the journal's official website and available to readers for free reading and downloading. In addition, readers may copy and distribute the relevant articles under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license.
Articles published in the journal before 2023 are not open access. However, all articles published since the journal's inception until 2022 have been fully archived on the journal's official website, and free PDF downloads of the articles are offered to readers. Readers can access these articles through the "Archive" section on the website homepage.
Creative Commons License
The journal uses the Creative Commons License 4.0, allowing users to share open access articles published in the journal under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license. This means users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, whether commercial or non-commercial, provided that users comply with the following terms:
(1) When users reproduce, distribute, or use the relevant articles, they must provide proper attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate whether any modifications were made to the original article. Attribution can be provided in any reasonable manner, but should not imply any endorsement by the Journal;
(2) If the article is remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified version should not be distributed.
For more details about this license, please visit:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/deed.en
Authors' Self-archive
It is allowed for authors to deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of their choice. However, it is necessary to indicate in the repository that the article was originally published in Journal of Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute.