1. Open Access Statement

From August 2022, the Journal of Unmanned Undersea Systems has flipped to to an open access journal using the CC BY-NC-ND licensing agreement. Starting from Volume 4, 2022, all articles published in this journal are open access. After publication, third-party users can immediately and permanently access the full texts of these articles for free through our official website (https://sxwrxtxb.xml-journal.net/), and they are allowed to freely copy, distribute, and use the articles in accordance with the CC BY-NC-ND license agreement.

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/

Articles published in this journal before  August 2022 are not open access. The official website of the journal provides PDF versions of the full text of articles from 2007 to Volume 3, 2022, which readers can read and download for free. When using these articles, readers must indicate the source.Due to the relatively old age of articles published before 2007, PDF versions of the full text are not currently available on the journal's official website. If readers need them, they can access database platforms such as CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure) and Wanfang Data to obtain the full text of relevant articles.

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.Repository Policy

The authors may store all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of their choice, provided they acknowledge in the repository that the article was originally published in the Journal of Unmanned Undersea Systems.

4.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.