In 2020, EPET joined the National Science and Technical Journal Open Platform constructed by the Ministry of Science and Technology and implemented by Institute of Science and Technical Information of China (https://netl.istic.ac.cn/) , to open the non-commercial use of all scientific papers in the journal to the public.

Copyright

The corresponding author should make sure that the submitted manuscript has been approved by all authors and that all authors agree to the submission to EPET and the order of authorship. All the authors will be asked to sign the Copyright Assignment after the paper is accepted by EPET. If authors signed this document, EPET will have copyright of the manuscript, including the right to reproduce, publish, transmit, translate and edit the work. After publication of the article, the authors shall own the right of signature. The authors can use or share the published article under the Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Licence

EPET applies the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0)（https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0） which permits unresticted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. EPET has followed the OA policy of the journal since 2017, and it conforms to the definition given by DOAJ.  

Fees

EPET is an open accessed journal, and it is free for readers to download the published articles without any charges from the website of www.epet-info.com. EPET publishes the articles for free without any charge for the authors, and pays for the contribution to the regular publication.