University of South China (hereafter USC or the University), is a comprehensive public university with a history of more than 60 years, co-funded by the People’s Government of Hunan Province and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and China National Nuclear Corporation respectively. The University was merged in 2000 by Hengyang Medical College, founded in 1958 and administrated by Hunan Province, Central South Institute of Technology, in 1959, and the 6th Nuclear Institute, in 1962, both administrated by the former Ministry of Nuclear Industry.

IEEE and DRAA, the Digital Resource Acquisition Alliance of Chinese Academic Libraries, have entered into an open access read and publish agreement. This agreement makes it more convenient for corresponding authors to publish open access articles with IEEE’s industry leading journals and magazines as eligible authors pay reduced article processing charges (APCs) and may have the opportunity to pay no APCs as some of these costs are waived under the agreement.