Abstract China University of Petroleum (Beijing) and Elsevier B. V. achieved an agreement of an Open Access (OA) cooperation pattern from 2015 to 2017. Elsevier will publish and distribute the electronic version of Journal of Palaeogeography (JoP) worldwide during this period through its website: Science Direct. Readers and authors all over the world have free accesses of reading and downloading the full-texts of all contributions published in JoP since its launching (July, 2012) through Science Direct.