1. OA Policy: Chinese Journal of Arteriosclerosis is an open access journal. Once published, all articles will be immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge. For more information, please refer to the “Open Access” page on this website.

 

2. Copyright: All authors agree to sign the Copyright Transfer Agreement. Once the submitted article is accepted, the copyright of the article and its figures, tables, abstract or any content extracted from the article will be transferred to the journal, including but not limited to the right of reproduction, issuing, online distribution, performance, translation, compilation, adaptation,etc. The articles in our journal, including figures, tables and data, are protected by the Copyright Law of the People's Republic of China. Infringement of the copyright by any organization, individual, society or publisher is strictly prohibited. The editorial office will bring a lawsuit against the infringer.

 

3. Archive: All journal articles have been digitally archived and can be searched and downloaded from the journal website since the launch of the journal in 1993. In order to ensure data security, all information has also been backed up in the editorial office. The hard copy of each issue of the journal had also been kept in the editorial office for archiving. In addition, other relevant materials are also kept by the editorial office, such as supplementary information and forms provided by the authors.  The full text of articles published in this journal can also be downloaded from third-party platforms including CNKI, Wanfang Data and Weipu. In case the journal and the website were closed, archiving data could be retrieved through those full-text databases.