1. Open Access
Vertebrata PalAsiatica is an open access journal since October 1, 2024. Once published, all articles will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.
2. Peer Review
In order to evaluate the scientific, innovative and practical nature of manuscripts, Vertebrata PalAsiatica operates a single anonymized review process under the responsibility of the Editorial Board of Vertebrata PalAsiatica. Firstly, all contributions will be preliminarily reviewed by the editorial office, chief editor/deputy chief editor. Secondly, they will be peer-reviewed (by 2 or more peer reviewers). Thirdly, they will be finally reviewed by the deputy chief editor and chief editor. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the final decision regarding the acceptance or rejection of articles.
3. User Rights and Author Rights
The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License is used by Vertebrata PalAsiatica which permits non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, only if the original work is not altered or transformed in any way and the original work is properly cited. The full details of the license are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
4. Article Processing Charge
After the paper is accepted, the author(s) will be charged article publication fees (APC), which is 80 CNY per page, and 1000 CNY for each color figure. After publishing, the author could get several print versions freely.
