1 Open Access Statement

Engineering Plastics Application is currently an open access journal. Having transitioned to open access in 2022, all articles published since then are immediately and permanently available for free reading and downloading on our website. Articles published between 2003 and 2021 have been converted to open access works, with full texts freely accessible and downloadable on the journal’s website under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license, permitting use, reproduction, and distribution.

Articles published in 2002 or earlier remain non-open access and are not freely available on the journal’s official website. Readers may access these articles through database platforms such as CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure).

2 Copyright Policy

All authors publishing in this journal must sign a "Copyright License Agreement", granting the Editorial Office of Engineering Plastics Application the rights to use the article’s copyright. This includes, but is not limited to, the rights of reproduction, distribution, information network dissemination, performance, translation, compilation, and adaptation.

3 Licensing Policy

This journal adopts the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0" (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license for open access articles. Third-party users may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, provided they comply with the license terms:

• Attribution: Users must provide appropriate credit, link to the license, and indicate if modifications were made. Attribution must be reasonable and must not imply journal endorsement.
• Non-Commercial Use: Material may not be used for commercial purposes.
• No Derivatives: Modified material (remixed, transformed, or built upon) may not be distributed.

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4 Article Access and Archiving Policy

Full texts of all articles published since 2003 are freely downloadable via the journal’s official website. In addition to open access on our platform, articles are archived in full-text databases including CNKI, Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform, and VIP Information, where readers may also access them.

Authors are permitted to deposit all versions of their articles in institutional or subject-based repositories. The article’s metadata must include complete journal publication details (e.g., volume, issue, DOI) and specify the recommended citation.