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 searched and downloaded from the journal website. 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.