MedKnow.com
Title
Medknow Publications: Publishers of peer-reviewed open access scholarly bio-medical journals
Description
Medknow Publications is the largest publisher in India for academic and scientific biomedical journals. The publishing house is committed to the improving the visibility and accessibility of science from the developing world. Its endeavor in continuously re-inventing the publishing methodology for about a decade has resulted in high quality peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The unique feature of these journals is its immediate open access policy without charging the author or author's institution for submission, processing or publication of the articles.
Medknow, with over 30 print + online journals, is probably the largest open access publisher of print journals in the world which does not charge author or author institution for submission, processing or publication of articles. Each journal published by Medknow has its independent website. The websites use the OpenURL standard, making it easy for libraries to link users as directly as possible from citation to the full text of the article. The open access policy has resulted in more than a half a million article downloads in a month all the journals.
Medknow has successfully put in place an original electronic manuscript submission and peer review system (http://www.journalonweb.com) for the first time in India. This system is in use since 2001 by authors and peers across the globe and over 10,000 manuscripts have been processed through it. Eliminating use of postal or hard copy submissions, this online submission and processing of articles has resulted in considerable decrease in the submission to decision (turnaround) time.
Languages
English
