炎癥雜志的目標是成為領先的在線炎癥雜志，并在未來十年，隨著在線雜志取代印刷雜志，成為主要的開放獲取炎癥雜志。開放獲取保證了更大的讀者群體，因此比任何限制訪問的同類產品都有更大的影響，而且隨著印刷期刊成本的不斷上升，其影響越來越大，超出了大學的預算。不受限制地獲得炎癥方面的研究成果有助于促進炎癥研究領域的工業和學術界成員之間的動態和富有成效的對話，這在未來幾代抗炎療法的發展中發揮著如此重要的作用。

Journal of Inflammation aims to become the leading online journal on inflammation and, as online journals replace printed ones over the next decade, the main open access inflammation journal. Open access guarantees a larger audience, and thus impact, than any restricted access equivalent, and increasingly so, as the escalating costs of printed journals puts them outside University budgets. The unrestricted access to research findings in inflammation aids in promoting dynamic and productive dialogue between industrial and academic members of the inflammation research community, which plays such an important part in the development of future generations of anti-inflammatory therapies.