Medknow Publications is a publisher for peer-reviewed, online/print+online journals in the area of STM. Medknow is the largest open access publisher publishing on behalf of learned societies and associations. Medknow pioneers in 'fee-less-free' model of open access publishing and provides immediate free access to the electronic editions of the journals majority of which do not charge the author or author's institution for submission, processing or publication of the articles.

Medknow, with over 95 print + online journals, is 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). This system is in use since 2001 by authors and peers across the globe and over 45,000 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.

Most of the journals published by Medknow are archived at multiple places including OAI-compliant e-print repositories (http://bioline.utsc.utoronto.ca/), PubMedCentral, Portico, CLOCKSS and sites such as Bioline International (http://www.bioline.org.br) and MedInd. Content of the Medknow journals is also available for harvesting from http://www.medknow.com/oai2/. Thus, ensuring the long term archiving and accessibility of the published content.