Open Access

All articles in Carsologica Sinica will be available immediately and permanently to any readers for free reading and downloading upon publication on the website.After the publication of this journal's papers, they are immediately available. Readers can enter the "Current Articles" and "Archive" on the home page from the official website of Carsologica Sinica, search the papers through the issue, find the required papers, click to enter the paper page, and then download the papers in PDF format.

User Rights

Permitted third party reuse is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivs (CC BY-NC-ND). This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and further does not permit distribution of the article if it is changed or edited in any way. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Author Rights

The copyright of the manuscript belongs to the author, and the responsibility for the text rests with the author. After the article accepted for publication by Carsologica Sinica, the author needs to sign a "Copyright Transfer Agreement", and the author will transfer the licensed Copyright (including but not limited to reproduction right, distribution right, information network communication right, translation right, compilation right) of the whole paper and the charts attached to the paper to Carsologica Sinica. The license period is the legal protection period of the thesis copyright, and the license territory is all over the world. However, the third parties are allowed to share articles (such as stored in the institutional knowledge base) in accordance with the knowledge sharing license agreement, and can also be used for other academic purposes. The author shall not damage the interests of Carsologica Sinica when exercising the above rights or transferring the above rights to a third party in accordance with the copyright law. For example, when compiling into other collections of papers, he must indicate that he has been published in this journal, and indicate the year, volume, and period of publication. The author agrees to use the article with the license of CC by-nc-nd after publication.

Publication Fees

To ensure the regular publication of the journal, Carsologica Sinica will charge Article Processing Charge (APC), which needs to be paid by the authors or their institutions, funded programs, etc. In case the authors do not have any funds for the research subject to pay the APC, they may apply for an exemption. Application method: The authors may submit a written application stamped by the scientific research management department in the institutions at which the authors are employed and provide the telephone number of the scientific research management department, and if the application is accepted by the Editorial Board, the APC may be exempted.

Article Processing Charge：RMB 350 yuan per page; manuscript review fee: RMB 200 yuan per manuscript.

Archiving policy

The electronic content of the journal is stored in (but not limited to) CNKI https://navi.cnki.net/knavi/journals/ZGYR/detail?uniplatform=NZKPT&language=chs.