1. Open Access

Journal of Unmanned Undersea Systems is an open access journal and all papers are immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge on the journal's official website upon publication. All published papers are licensed under the Creative Commons Licence, which allows third-party users to share them under the attribution-non commercial -no derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND), i.e., CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 protocol.

Users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes to the papers were made. Users may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal endorses the use. Users may not use the papers for commercial purposes. If users remix, transform, or build upon the papers, they may not distribute the modified papers. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

2.     Archiving Policy

All published papers of the Journal of Unmanned Undersea Systems are searchable and downloadable on the official website of the journal. In order to ensure data security, the paper version of each issue and the related digital information of the journal (PDF/HTML version) are archived and backed up in the editorial board. The journal has been included in China National Knowledge Internet(CNKI), Wanfang Data and Wei Pu Database. If the journal is no longer published, published papers can be searched and downloaded from the above databases.

3.Copyright statement of the Journal of Unmanned Undersea Systems

After the paper is accepted by the journal, authors are required to sign the Journal of Unmanned Undersea Systems copyright transfer agreement (please refer to Author Centre - Copyright Transfer Agreement) to transfer the copyright of the paper to the editorial board of the Journal of Unmanned Undersea Systems, and the copyright will be vested in the editorial board of the journal. However, the authors have the right to use their paper in the following cases after the publication of the paper:

(1) The authors may reproduce, disseminate, use, etc. (e.g., non-commercial academic seminars, exchanges, academic reports, lectures, etc.) their paper in accordance with the journal's licence agreement (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0);

(2) Use of the paper and its layout for compiling personal works (including web pages) or anthologies, provided that the source is acknowledged;

(3) For other activities permitted and authorised by the Editorial Board.

For details of copyright transfer, please refer to Author Centre - Copyright Transfer Agreement.