Journal of Tropical Oceanography is an open-access, comprehensive academic journal of oceanography, sponsored by the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published by Science Press, and distributed both domestically and internationally. It was established in 1982 and is one of China's core natural science journals. It is also one of the selected journals in the 2001 China Periodicals Front Line. The international standard serial number is ISSN: 1009-5470, and the domestic uniform serial number is 44-500/P.

In order to promote the rapid, widespread, and effective dissemination of research findings in the field, and to maximize the public benefit of scientific research results, this journal has decided to implement immediate and complete open access publishing for articles published in this journal, and encourages and supports the implementation of self-archiving policies.

1. All research articles published in this journal will have their published versions of PDFs made available through the journal's website (https://www.jto.ac.cn/) immediately upon publication and will be available through open access. The journal does not charge separate article processing fees for open access articles. Authors or their institutions are allowed to store all of their research findings published in this journal in their institutional repository for open access.

2. The organizer is supported to store the full-text data of this journal in the institutional knowledge base. The author or the author's institution are encouraged and supported for immediate self-storing of the papers published in this journal in the author's institution's knowledge base, the author's personal website, and any third-party open warehouse after publication. The stored version is the final release version after peer review, and the basic license method is CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). However, the standard author information and journal publication information must be indicated in the metadata of the institution's knowledge base, and used as a recommended citation method.

3. Authors are encouraged to submit the paper manuscripts (preprinted copies) to well-known preprint platforms, such as arXiv and ChinaXiv (http://chinaxiv.org) before official submission, and the published preprinted paper manuscripts will not be regarded as repeated publication.

4. This journal will further promote the further deepening and expansion of open access publishing, support the author's storage of the original data and process data of the paper in any third-party open-access database, support the semantic disclosure, retrieval and association of the paper data, support the release and use of additional materials of the paper, actively explore and test the service capabilities of digital content expansion, and support the rich display, mobile acquisition and ubiquitous utilization of research results. The storage of raw data and process data related to third parties and papers in this journal is also licensed in accordance with the CC-BY 4.0 agreement.

5. Funding agencies, library intelligence agencies and authors are welcome to provide open access publishing funds. This journal is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with the industry, support the construction of open access infrastructure, including institutional knowledge bases, and strengthen the sharing and cooperation in the construction of journal resources, operation mode, tool platform, author training, etc.