Open Access Policy

The Anatolian Journal of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care follows a full open access publishing model in accordance with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) (https://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/). All articles are made freely and permanently available online immediately upon publication. Readers may access, read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, link to, and reuse the content for lawful purposes.

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). This license permits unrestricted sharing, redistribution, adaptation, and commercial use of the material in any medium or format. Users must provide appropriate credit to the author(s) and the journal, include a link to the license, and clearly indicate if any modifications were made. No additional legal or technical restrictions may be applied that would limit the rights granted under this license.

Upon acceptance of a manuscript for publication, copyright is transferred to the Anatolian Journal of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care. The journal retains copyright ownership while making the content openly accessible under the CC BY 4.0 license. Authors acknowledge the journal as the original publisher of the work.

All published articles are permanently identified through Digital Object Identifier (DOI) registration (https://www.doi.org/) and remain continuously accessible via the journal’s Open Journal Systems (OJS) publishing platform. Long-term digital preservation is ensured in accordance with the journal’s Archiving Policy.

Authors are permitted to archive all versions of their manuscripts without embargo, including the submitted version (preprint), the accepted manuscript, and the final published version (Version of Record). When archiving, authors must include proper citation information and the DOI link and clearly indicate that the article was originally published in this journal.

The journal supports the Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), enabling automated harvesting of bibliographic metadata by indexing and archiving services. The OAI-PMH endpoint is available at: https://ajaic.com/index.php/pub/oai

Published articles may be accessed and archived via the journal’s official website (https://ajaic.com/index.php/pub/issue/archive) DOI system, OAI-PMH metadata harvesting mechanism, authors’ personal websites, institutional repositories, and subject-based open access repositories. No embargo period applies to any version of the published content.

This policy was established in June 2025 and last updated in September 2025.