Natural Science of Hainan University is an open access journal. All articles will be permanently available for free reading and downloading on our journal’s website immediately upon publication. Open access will be applied retroactively to articles published since 2020, making them freely accessible and downloadable on the journal’s website under the CC BY 4.0 license, which defines user rights. Articles published prior to 2020 will gradually be made open access.
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