1.OA Policy: Sichuan Mental Health is an open access journal. Once published, all articles will be immediately and permanently available for readers to read and download free of charge. For more information, please refer to the Open Access Policy page on this website.

2.Copyright: All authors must sign the "Copyright Transfer Contract" to transfer the copyright of the article to the editorial office of the journal within the term of contract, including the right of reproduction, issuing, online distribute, translation and compiling.

3.Digital publishing: The journal has joined Chinese Academic Journals (CD version), Chinese Biomedical Journals, Wanfang Data Digital Journal Group and Chinese Scientific and Technological Journal Database. Therefore, any submission to this journal suggests that the authors agree to publish the article in form of print and CD at the same time.

4.Archive: Since 2014, all journal articles have been digitally archived and can be downloaded from the journal website free of charge. Those articles are open access under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. In order to ensure data security, all information has also been backed up in the editorial office. Before 2014, the hard and soft copy of each issue of the journal had been kept in the editorial office for archiving. In addition, other relevant materials are also kept by the editorial office, such as supplementary information and forms provided by the authors.

5. Data Sharing: Authors are encouraged to share research data under appropriate circumstances. Data sharing plays a crucial role in facilitating the replication of scientific experiments and the reuse of research data. Generally, shareable data encompasses raw data, observation records, experimental results, and so forth. Additionally, the journal emphasizes the importance of authors sharing related research software, code, models, algorithms, protocols, methods, and other valuable materials. Authors are encouraged upload such materials to accessible third-party storage platforms and provide corresponding links at the end of their articles.