Open Access Policy

This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution.The full text of all content is available for free and open access without delay or embargo period. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in the Journal of Surgery and Medicine (JOSAM)  without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. There is no requirement for users to register to read the content. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

The BOAI arises from a meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on 1st – 2nd December 2001. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. The participants represented many points of view, many academic disciplines, and many nations, and had to experience many of the ongoing initiatives that make up the open access movement. In Budapest, they explored how the separate initiatives could work together to achieve broader, deeper, and faster success. They explored the most effective and affordable strategies for serving the interests of research, researchers, and the institutions and societies that support research. Finally, they explored how OSI and other foundations could use their resources most productively to aid the transition to open access and to make open access publishing economically self-sustaining. The result is the Budapest Open Access Initiative. It is at once a statement of principle, a statement of strategy, and a statement of commitment.