Open Access Statement

Journal of Refrigeration has been changed to an open access journal since the first issue in 2010, and all articles published thereafter will be permanently available for free reading and download on our website. Articles between 2000 and 2010 have been changed to open access works, and the full text can be downloaded for free from our magazine's website. Articles from 2000 and earlier are not open access, but some papers can be read and downloaded for free on the website of this journal, and the copyright belongs to the editorial department of the journal.

Published articles are open-access based on A Creative Commons License (CC Agreement), allowing readers to browse, download and use for free. Journal of Refrigeration is distributed under "CC BY-NC: Attribution (BY)-Non-Commercial (NC)"License. All users should use this license as a prerequisite to copy, distribute, exhibit, perform, show, broadcast, or spread the published papers, or use them for modification and creation. Original author, issue, URL and any modification should be marked in citations. Without permission, no articles or derivatives are allowed for commercial purposes.

Published articles can be made public immediately and are permanently accessible free of charge on the official website: http://www.hjs.sinap.ac.cn/. Users can download papers directly without logging in.

License Agreement

For open access publishing, NT uses a Copyright Transfer Agreement. After the manuscript is accepted, the author needs to sign a Copyright Transfer Policy with the editorial department, but the author has the right to allow third parties to share their articles (such as stored in the institutional repository) in accordance with the Creative Commons License Agreement. At the same time, the author can also use this article for other non-commercial purposes(CC BY-NC).