Archives of Operative Medicine (AOM) is a fully open access journal. All content published in the journal is freely available to readers without charge or subscription barriers. Authors are not required to pay any article processing charges (APCs), submission fees, or publication fees.

Principles of Open Access

The journal supports the principles of open science, ensuring that research outputs are:

• Freely accessible to anyone with internet access
• Immediately available upon publication
• Reusable with proper attribution under a liberal license

Licensing

All articles published in Archives of Operative Medicine are licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. This license allows for:

• Sharing — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
• Adapting — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially
  as long as appropriate credit is given to the original authors and the source.

This licensing policy promotes maximum dissemination and reuse of scholarly work, aligning with global open access initiatives and funder requirements.

Archiving and Indexing

The journal’s content is preserved through trusted digital archiving systems, including LOCKSS and CLOCKSS, to ensure long-term accessibility and secure scholarly preservation. In addition, the journal supports the use of institutional repositories and metadata harvesting.

Archives of Operative Medicine is structured in accordance with the technical, editorial, and ethical standards required by internationally recognized abstracting and indexing services.

 

If you have questions regarding our open access policy, please contact the editorial office at editor@aomjournal.com.