Open Access Statement
Materials Protection is currently an open access journal. Since 2022, all articles published in the journal are immediately and permanently available for free reading and downloading on the journal's official website. Readers are allowed to copy, distribute, and use the articles in accordance with the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
Articles published in Materials Protection before 2022 are not open access. Readers who need access to these articles can visit databases such as CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) to retrieve them.
License Policy
Materials Protection adopts the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. This allows third-party users to copy and distribute the open access articles of the journal (i.e., articles published since 2022) in any medium or format, as long as they comply with the terms of this license:
When copying and distributing articles from the journal, third-party users must provide appropriate attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate whether any modifications have been made to the original article. Attribution should be done in a reasonable manner, but should not imply endorsement by the journal. The articles from the journal cannot be used for commercial purposes. If the articles are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified material cannot be distributed. For more detailed information on this license, please visit:
Copyright Policy
All authors are required to sign a “Copyright License Agreement” that grants the Editorial Department of Materials Protection non-exclusive rights to use the article's copyright (including but not limited to the rights of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination, performance, translation, compilation, adaptation, etc.) worldwide. After publication, authors retain full copyright of their articles.
Article Archiving
Authors may store all versions of their articles in institutional or other knowledge repositories of their choice. In the metadata of the stored articles, the standardized journal publication information should be indicated, and it should be recommended as the preferred citation.
