​​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 AMS publish?

• Original Research Article
• Quality Improvement Research Articles
• Review Article
• Cohort, Case-control and Cross-sectional studies
• Editorial
• Commentary/Perspective/Brief Reports/Short Communications/Correspondence
• Policy Review
• 'How To' Article
• Round-Table Discussion
• Debate
• Conference Report
• Case Report
• Tumour marker prognostication study
• Health Economic Evaluation
• Grand Rounds

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 copyright for their article. Open access articles will be freely available to read, download and share from the time of publication. AMS provides authors the choice of applying any of the Creative Commons 4.0 licenses defined below, to be determined after acceptance.

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs: CC BY-NC-ND
  This license is the most restrictive of the six main licenses, only allowing others to download your works and share it with others as long as they credit you, but they can't change the work in any way or use it commercially.
• Attribution-NonCommerical-ShareAlike: CC BY-NC-SA
  This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work noncommercially, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms.
• Attribution-NonCommercial: CC BY-NC
  This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work noncommercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be noncommercial, they don't have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
• Attribution-NoDerivs: CC BY-ND
  This license allows for redistribution, commercial and noncommercial, of your work as long as it is passed along unchanged and in whole, with credit to you.
• Attribution-ShareAlike: CC BY-SA
  This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work even for commercial purposes, as long as they credit you and license their new creations under the identical terms. All new works based on yours will carry the same license, so any derivatives will also allow commercial use.
• Attribution: CC-BY
  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 AMS, does this make me compliant with my funding body requirements?

Is AMS online only?

Yes, AMS is available online, with no print edition.

How do I subscribe to AMS?

Is AMS indexed in PubMed Central?

The journal is fully indexed in the PubMed Central (PMC) database,​ Embase, Cancerlit, ProQuest, Google Scholar, and Web of Science.

Does IJS have clear editorial and ethical policies?

Yes, AMS is a member of the Committee of Publication Ethics and adheres to their guidelines. More details on ASM's editorial and ethical policies can be found in the Instructions for Authors.