IJSCR is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without any charges to the author .The full text of all content is available for free and open access without delay or embargo period. Users are allowed to read, download, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in the International Journal of Surgery and Clinical Research (IJSCR) without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. There is no requirement for users to register to read the content. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

The BOAI arises from a meeting convened in Budapest by the Open Society Institute (OSI) on 1st – 2nd December 2001. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate progress in the international effort to make research articles in all academic fields freely available on the Internet. The participants represented many points of view, many academic disciplines, and many nations, and had to experience many of the ongoing initiatives that make up the open access movement.

IJSCR follow ethical publishing guidelines defined by Directory of Open Access (DOAJ) and Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). All the articles in IJSCR are open access, freely available, published and distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License. As per the open access policy all the scientific content published is accessible without any restriction or charges by readers. In order to support open access initiative APC is impose for manuscript submission instead of charging any fee to the users to read the published content. We do not imply any submission charges but applies only processing charges. The readers from the world are allowed unrestricted access to full articles. By allowing articles access open the citations can be increases which impacts its importance in scientific literature.