1. Open Access Statement

Construction Technology flipped to an open access journal under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license in 2022. All articles published in the journal since the first issue of 2022 are available as open access articles. Upon publication, these articles are immediately and permanently accessible on the journal website free of charge to all users, and users may copy and distribute these articles under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

2. Licensing Policy

Construction Technology uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license, allowing third-party users to copy and distribute the open access articles published in the journal in any medium or format, provided that the license terms below are followed:

When copying or distributing the open access articles of the journal, third-party users must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes to the articles were made. Users may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests that the journal endorses the use. Users may not use the articles for commercial purposes. If users re-mix, transform, or build upon the articles, they may not distribute the modified articles. Full license details are available at:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.zh

3. Copyright Policy

After the manuscript is accepted by the journal, the authors need to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement (the template can be found on the "Guides for Authors" → "Download Center" page of this website) to transfer the copyright of the manuscript to the Journal Office of Construction Technology, and the copyright will belong to the Journal Office. After the article is published, the author has the right to use the article under the following circumstances:

The author may reproduce, disseminate, and use the article under the license of CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, e.g., non-commercial academic discussions, exchanges, academic reports, lectures, etc.

4. Archiving Policy

4.1 Archive of past issues

All articles published since 2022 are open access articles, which are digitally archived on the official website of the journal. Readers can access them online for free through this website.

Articles published before 2022 are not open access articles and have not been archived on the journal's official website. Free full-text access is not currently available on our website. The full-texts of these articles are stored in the platform of China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang Database, and readers can obtain the full-text articles through the above platforms.

4.2 Self-archiving policy

It is allowed for authors to deposit all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of the authors' choice. However, it is necessary to indicate the articles' publication information in the metadata in the institutional or other repository and use that as a recommended way of citation.