Journal History
The Origin of the Name Forbes Journal of Medicine;
The Forbes Mansion, located in the garden of Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Training and Research Hospital, is a symbolic structure for the Buca district of Izmir and our hospital. Therefore, the silhouette of the Forbes Mansion, which gave its name to our journal, forms the logo of our journal.
The History of Forbes Mansion: Located in the center of Buca district, one of the oldest settlements in Izmir dating back to around 130 BC, the "Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Education and Research Hospital" operates on a 132-acre area covered with pine and olive trees, including a historic structure known as the "Forbes Mansion". Among the Levantine mansions in Buca, the Forbes Mansion is the most striking and magnificent. Built in 1908 to be used as a hunting lodge by the English Forbes family, who were known for exporting licorice root and antimony ore during their time in Izmir. The mansion burned down entirely in 1909, just a year after its construction, and was rebuilt in 1910. After the Forbes family, who resided in the mansion for a while, left Izmir, the Whittall family began living in the mansion. In 1950, the "Forbes Mansion," then property of the Ministry of Health, was used as a polyclinic for many years.
Reliable and official links related to Forbes Mansion are provided below:
https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Pavilion
https://www.kulturportali.gov.tr/turkiye/izmir/gezilecekyer/sirinyerforbes-koskurees-koskukizilcullu
Publication Policy
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 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 included to the submission. The form can also be downloaded from the journal's article submission system. "Copyright Agreement Form" must be signed by all contributing authors and a scanned version of this wet-signed document must be submitted.
All published content is available online and free of charge at https://forbestip.org/. Forbes Journal of Medicine used the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence between 2020 and 2023. However, as of July 2023, the journal approves the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license for all published articles. This licence permits third parties to copy, distribute, or reuse the content for non-commercial purposes by giving the appropriate credit to the author and original work. Authors agree to transfer commercial rights to İzmir Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Training and Research Hospital, if the article is accepted for publication.
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.
