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Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Open Access Agreement for Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is an open access (OA) journal that operates a double-blind peer-review process. All content in this journal is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0) International License. All articles are published in open access format as defined by the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. Published articles can be made public immediately and are permanently accessible free of charge on the official website (http://www.bulletin.cas.cn), allowing users to read, download, copy, print, search, or obtain a link to the full text of the articles, or use them for other legitimate purposes.

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