What is Open Access?
Open access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly research. Open access journals provide 'gold' open access, meaning immediate open access to all of their articles on the publisher's website. 'Gold' open access for individual articles is funded by authors, institutions, funders, or sponsors who pay an open access article-processing charge (APC) after acceptance.
What types of articles will Spine Research publish?
Spine Researchpublishes Original research, Review, Case Report, Consensus and Guideline, Letter, and Editorial. To enhance quality, readability and to be more competitive with other leading scientific journals, all manuscripts must conform to word-count standards for article length, references, and limited number of figure pieces. Please visit the Instructions for Authors for more information.
How will readers know articles are open access?
All open access articles will be marked with an icon bearing 'Open' on the full-text and PDF formats of the published work, and information on the type of creative commons license will be available on all article formats and listed in the article metadata.
Who retains copyright of the open access articles?
Authors retain their copyright for all articles. Authors grant WK a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. The article publishing charge (APC) is currently waived for this journal. Editorial Office of Spine Research will pay to make the articles open access.
Open access articles will be freely available to read, download and share from the time of publication. Spine Research provides authors the Creative Commons 4.0 licenses defined below.
This license lets others distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon your work, even commercially, as long as they credit you for the original creation. This is the most accommodating of licenses offered.
If I publish in Spine Research, does this make me compliant with my funding body requirements?
Spine Research's services and policies ensure that authors can fully comply with the public access requirements of major funding bodies worldwide.
How do I subscribe to Spine Research?
Spine Researchis an open access journal, so no subscription is needed to read it.
Does Spine Research have clear editorial and ethical policies?
Yes, Spine Researchis a member of the Committee of Publication Ethics and adheres to their guidelines. More details on Spine Research’s editorial and ethical policies can be found in the Instructions for Authors.
Spine Research is indexed in the Jisc Open Policy Finder: https://openpolicyfinder.jisc.ac.uk/id/publication/46968.