The Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery (www.jtss.org) is the official publication of the Turkish Spinal Surgery Society. The first journal was printed in January 1990. It is a double-blind, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary journal for physicians who deal with spinal diseases and publishes original studies that offer significant contributions to the development of spinal knowledge. The journal publishes original scientific research articles, invited reviews and case reports accepted by the Editorial Board in English.
English Title: Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery
Official abbreviation: J Turk Spinal Surg
E-ISSN: 2147-5903
Publication Fee Policy
Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery charges 6000₺ from 'authors from with Türkiye addresses' and $160 from 'authors from foreign/other addresses' for all article types. After the process, please send your receipt of payment to:
TÜRK OMURGA DERNEĞİ (Turkish Spinal Surgery Society), İzmir, Çankaya Şubesi (0739)
Account No.: 16000021
HALKBANK IBAN: TR18 0001 2009 7390 0016 0000 21
The manuscripts must be submitted via JournalAgent online article system, represented on the journal website.
Abstracting and Indexing
Copyright
After the publication decision is made and accepted, the "Copyright Agreement Form" should be attached to the submissions. The form can also be downloaded from the journal's article submission system. The Copyright Agreement Form must be signed by all contributing authors, and a scanned version of this wet-signed document must be submitted.
The copyright of the published article belongs to its author under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. The authors agree to transfer the commercial rights to the Turkish Spine Society if the article is accepted for publication.
By citing the author and the journal at the same time, without any profit-making motive, and only for educational purposes, the readers can copy the article without the permission of the copyright holder.
The Journal of Turkish Spinal Surgery is an open access publication, and the journal’s publication model is based on Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) declaration. All published content is available online, free of charge at https://jtss.org/. The journal’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License which permits third parties to share the content for non-commerical purposes by giving appropriate credit to the original work.
Digital Archiving and Preservation Policy
Digital preservation is a set of processes and activities that ensure the retrieval and distribution of information now available in digital formats to guarantee long-term, perpetual access. The preservation policy includes the following measures:
Website Archiving
All of the electronic content (website, manuscript, etc.) is stored in three different sources. Content on a server is online and accessible to readers. A copy of the same content is preserved as a backup on two other sources. Should a server fail, other resources can be brought online, and the website is expected to be available in 24-36 hours.
Abstracting/Indexing Services
Our journal's Abstracting/Indexing services store essential information about articles. In addition, some Abstracting/Indexing services in our journal archive the metadata and electronic versions of the articles. Thus, the articles are available to be accessed easily by both these systems and the journal'’s archive.
