1. Open Access Statement
Water Resources and Power is an open access journal. Once an article is published, it is made immediately available on the journal's official website and remains permanently accessible to all users free of charge.
2. Open Access License
All open access articles in this journal use the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, which allows authors and third-party users to copy, distribute, and use the articles in any media and format, provided that they follow the terms of this license, including:
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4. Article Processing Charge
To support open-access publishing, the journal charges an Article Processing Charge (APC) for accepted articles. The fees are as follows: CNY 4,000 per article for regular publication and CNY 6,000 per article for expedited publication.