Journal History

Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology the official organ of Turkish Society for Rheumatology, is the continuation of RAED Journal, was started publishing in 2009.

Previous Title (2009 –2018 )

RAED Journal ISSN: 2147-2548

E-ISSN: 1301-4021

Current Title (2018 - …) Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology

ISSN: 2651-2653

E-ISSN: 2651-2661

Free-of-Charge Publication

No fee is charged from the authors during the submission, evaluation and publication process. Journal practices, ethical rules, technical information and necessary forms are specified on the journal's web page.

The manuscripts must be submitted via the Journal Agent online article system, represented on the journal website.

Abstracting and Indexing

Copyright

The copyright of the published article belongs to its author under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. The authors agree to transfer the commercial rights to Turkish Society for Rheumatology when the article is accepted for publication.

Journal of Turkish Society for Rheumatology 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 and free of charge at raeddergisi.org. The journal’s content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).

After receiving and accept decision for publication, submissions must be accompanied by the “The Copyright Agreement Form“. The form is available for download on the journal’s manuscript submission and ealuation site. The copyright agreement form should be signed by all contributing authors and a scanned version of the wet signed document should be submitted.

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 of our journal's Abstracting/Indexing services archive metadata about the article and electronic versions of the articles. In this way, copies of articles are presented to the scientific community through these systems as an alternative to journals.