New open-access journal makes brain treatment research free to read

A new fully open-access journal has launched to make research on minimally invasive brain and spine treatments available without a subscription.

JNIS Advances is a companion to the Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery and was unveiled at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s annual meeting in Seattle.

The journal will cover areas including stroke, aneurysms, brain tumours, spinal disorders, epilepsy treatments and brain-computer interfaces. Submissions will use double-anonymised peer review, while authors whose work is not accepted by the main JNIS journal can transfer manuscripts and existing review reports.

Every published article will be free to read on any device. That matters particularly for clinicians, students and researchers in lower-income countries, where subscription costs can limit access to current evidence even as the burden of stroke is rising quickly.

Open access alone does not guarantee that research is useful or reliable, which is why peer review and clear standards remain important. By combining those checks with fewer reading barriers, the new journal could help valuable findings travel further and reach practitioners who can translate them into better patient care.