Open Access

Global community of knowledge

Benefits

     • Enhance impact of your work
     • Faster publication
     • Reach broader audiences
     • Increased citations of your work
     • Public can access your findings

No fees

This journal is completely maintained at this time based on donations. We hope to remain completely transparent in our policies and remain free of cost to researchers to eliminate any publication bias.

     • NO article processing fees
     • NO article submission fees

Trends over the years

As the internet has become ubiquitous throughout the world, it has opened additional avenues for research dissemination. Open Access refers to research outputs that are free of many restriction. Lack of subscription fees allows unlimited access to publications around the world. This enables a substantial increase in research impact.


Source: Laakso M, Welling P, Bukvova H, Nyman L, Björk B-C, et al.



The Basics

Authors may read, download text, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose. Per the Budapest Open Access Initiative's definition of Open Access.





Creative Commons

This journal utilizes a CC BY-NC-SA license.

This means that users must acknowledge the original author. In addition, work may only be reused for commercial purposes. Moreover, whenever a work is reused, it must carry this same license. Any reuse of works in this journal must carry the appropriate CC logo designation, DOI number, and web link to the original article page.

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Digital Archiving

CLOCKSS is an international data preservation system designed to permanently archive all scholarly work. Surgery Multimedia Journal pending content preservation within this system.

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Registered Deposit Policy

SHERPA/RoMEO is a database classifying copyright and open access self-archiving policies of journals. Surgery Multimedia Journal is indexing pending.

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