About Us

Journal History

The Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology (TAO) is the scientific, peer-reviewed, open-access journal of the Turkish Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Society. TAO is the first Turkish otorhinolaryngology (ORL) journal that has been in publication since November 1962. The publication of the TAO represents a milestone in the Turkish ORL history and is regarded as a necessary step on the developmental path of the Turkish ORL literature. Professor Mehmet Hikmet Altuğ began the first issue of the journal with the saying “Verba volent, Scripta manent,” namely “spoken words fly away, written words remain”.

In November 1962, the "Turkish Archives of Otolaryngology" the first Turkish journal in the field, was established, filling a gap in sharing research and knowledge and its name was changed as "Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology" at the beginning of 2015.

Currently, the journal comprises four issues, March, June, September, and December, in a volume that is published quarterly every year. The journal's publication language is English.

Tanyeri Y. The Foundation Story of Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology. Turk Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2015 Mar;53:1-3.

Past Editors

Hikmet ALTUĞ (Founder, 1962-1998)

İrfan DEVRANOĞLU (1998-2012)

Ayşenur MERİÇ HAFIZ (2012-2015)

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 Manuscript Manager online article system, represented on the journal website.

Abstracting and Indexing

CNKI

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

EBSCO

Embase

Emerging Sources Citation Index of Web of Science

GALE

J-Gate

ProQuest

PubMed Central

PubMed,

ULAKBIM TR Index

Copyright

By signing the Copyright License Agreement, authors agree that the article, if accepted for publication by Turkish Archives of Otorhinolaryngology, the article will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The authors agree to transfer the copyright to the journal if the article is accepted for publication.

CC BY-NC license includes the following elements:

BY – Credit must be given to the creator

NC – Only noncommercial uses of the work are permitted

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 other servers. 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 journals’ 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. This journal’s archive has been backed up by PubMed Central (PMC) as from 2015 publications.

Author Self-Archiving Policy

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their articles on personal and institutional websites after publication (while providing full bibliographic details and a link to the original publication).