Open Access Statement

Journal of Sun Yat-sen University (Medical Sciences) flipped to an open access journal in 2019. All articles published ever since are immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge. All journal articles from 2014 can also be downloaded from this website free of charge. These articles are open access with user’s rights defined by CC BY-NC 4.0 License. Articles published before 2014 are not open access. 

For all open access articles published by this journal, permitted third party reuse of the articles published by the journal is defined by the following user license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as the license terms below are followed: reusers must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. Reusers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use. Reusers may not use the material for commercial purposes. The authors have right to spread or make use of the article under the CC BY-NC 4.0 License. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

In order to ensure data security, all information has also been backed up in the editorial office. The hard and soft copy of each issue of the journal had been kept in the editorial office for archiving. In addition, other relevant materials are also kept by the editorial office, such as supplementary information and forms provided by the authors. The full text articles can also be downloaded from databases including CNKI, Wanfang, Weipu and Bokan.