The diamond open access model requires the commitment of many partners who support the journal.
Our supporting members
- have voting rights in the SMW supporting association;
- help to maintain a unique information platform for healthcare professionals and (bio-)medical researchers in Switzerland;
- contribute to the further development of the Swiss Medical Weekly and the worldwide open access community;
- support academics and especially young researchers in Switzerland and abroad;
- help to improve the methodological and reporting standards of (bio-)medical research;
- invest in the advancement of (bio-)medical sciences in Switzerland;
- enable readers worldwide to freely access the large information database of the Swiss Medical Weekly.
The Hôpital du Valais supports SMW because it believes that free access to scientific information is an ethical priority if we are to improve patient care as much as possible. We would like to thank SMW for offering Swiss researchers in particular the opportunity to showcase their skills by advising them, and for giving them a voice in a scientific journal that deserves to be encouraged for its seriousness and quality, while protecting them from being instrumentalised for other purposes.
Prof. Eric Bonvin and Jean Perrenoud
General manager, Hôpital du Valais / Librarian, Hôpital du ValaisOur members
Numerous institutions support the SMW financially and thus make it possible for it to adhere to this publication model. The following institutions have already joined the SMW supporting association (chronological order):
- Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences (SAMS)
- Swiss Medical Association (FMH)
- University Hospital Basel
- GZO Spital Wetzikon
- Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana
- Solothurner Spitäler AG
- HFR – Hôpital Fribourgeois
- University Department of Geriatric Medicine Felix Platter
- Kantonsspital Baselland
- Spital Zollikerberg
- “Penta Plus”: Kantonsspital Baden, Spitalzentrum Biel, Kantonsspital Graubünden, Spital Simmental-Thun-Saanenland, Kantonsspital Winterthur
- Swiss Society of Intensive Care Medicine
- Swiss Society of Cardiology
- Bibliothèque Universitaire de Médecine, Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV)
- Swiss Society of Emergency and Rescue Medicine
- Zuger Kantonsspital
- Kantonsspital Aarau
- Kantonsspital Münsterlingen and Kantonsspital Frauenfeld (Spital Thurgau)
- Swiss Paraplegic Research
- Spitalregion Luzern-Nidwalden (LUNIS) and Kantonsspital Obwalden
- Swiss Society of Infectiology
- Federal Office of Public Health
- Hôpital du Jura
- Swiss Society of General Internal Medicine
- Hôpital du Valais
- Swiss Society of Rheumatology
- Swiss Society of Gastroenterology
- Kantonsspital St. Gallen
- Swiss Medical Network
- Insel-Gruppe AG
- Réseau hospitalier neuchâtelois
- REHAB Basel – Klinik für Neurorehabilitation und Paraplegiologie
The support of the SMW is very important to us, the Pentaplus Hospitals. The SMW is a high-quality platform for our specialists to publish their scientific work independently of industry and publishers, but also to obtain the latest information and integrate it into their work. Diamond Open Access is very important to us, as it guarantees the quality of the published articles to a particular extent. And this is in line with our Swiss values.