PATRONAGE

The journal is supported by its readers.

Conversations In Orthopaedics carries no advertising; the only economics are between writer and reader.

Patronage tiers · monthly

Three modes of standing patronage.

Reader

$5/ month

For the resident, the fellow, the early-career surgeon. Underwrites the open archive.

What this supports

Archive hosting and search indexing
Citation infrastructure and DOI registration
The free weekly issue, for every reader

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Contributor

$20/ month

For the practising clinician who reads with the journal. Underwrites editorial honoraria.

What this supports

Honoraria for invited specialist conversations
Copy-editing of the weekly issue
Peer-correspondence column moderation

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Patron

$100/ month

For the institution, the department, the senior reader. Underwrites the volume itself.

What this supports

Editorial board honoraria and travel for invited specialists
Annual hardbound printing of the completed volume
Named in the colophon of every issue, on request

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A note on independence

A journal independent of the marketplace is a journal that can read the literature without flinching.

— from the editor's correspondence, Volume I

One-time gift

A single contribution, at any amount.

For readers who prefer to give once. Every gift is acknowledged and accounted for in the annual colophon.

$25

Supports a single issue's editorial pass.

Give $25

$100

Supports one invited specialist conversation.

Give $100

$500

Supports a month of the journal in full.

Give $500

Custom amount

Choose your own contribution at checkout.

Give a custom amount

Institutional patronage

For departments and academic centres.

Departments, residency programmes, and academic centres that wish to provide the journal to their faculty and trainees are encouraged to enquire about institutional patronage. Institutional patrons receive a printed annual volume, an institutional listing in the colophon, and access for an unlimited number of associated readers. Please address enquiries to the editorial office at editor@conversationsinorthopaedics.com.

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