1. Open Access Statement

Guiding Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy flipped to an open access journal in 2025. All articles published in the journal from Issue 1 of 2025 onward are open access works, which are archived on the journal's official website immediately after publication and are permanently available to all users free of charge.

Please note that articles published before 2025 are not open access. The copyright of these articles belongs to the Hunan Guiding Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy Press Co., Ltd., which reserves all rights.

2. Open Access License

Guiding Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy uses the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, which allows all users to copy, distribute, and use the open access articles published in the journal in any media and format, provided that they follow the terms of the license, including:

When copying and distributing the open access articles published in the journal, users must provide appropriate attribution, include a link to the license, and indicate if any changes have been made to the original article. Attribution may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the journal endorses the use. The articles cannot be used for commercial purposes. If the articles are remixed, transformed, or built upon, the modified articles cannot be distributed. For more detailed information on this license, please visit:

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

3. Copyright Policy

Authors are required to sign the Letter of Submission and Copyright Transfer Agreement of the journal. According to the agreement, all authors agree that, upon acceptance for publication, the copyright of the submitted work—including the entire article as well as any figures, tables, abstracts, or other components that can be extracted from the work—shall be transferred to Hunan Guiding Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy Press Co., Ltd. The transferred rights include, but are not limited to, the rights of reproduction, distribution, online dissemination, performance, translation, compilation, and adaptation.

After an article is published in the journal, the author(s) of the article will have the right to use the article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.

4. Author Self-Archiving

Authors are allowed to store all versions of their articles in an institutional or other repository of their choice. In the repository, it should be indicated that the article was originally published in the Guiding Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy.

5. Article Archiving Policy
In addition to the journal’s official website, all previously published articles are archived in full text on platforms such as CNKI and Wanfang. Readers may also access these databases to obtain the journal’s articles online.