Publishing and online services provided for editors, journals, societies and associations:

We offer a comprehensive package of services for journal publishing without impinging on the editorial and financial rights of the journal. We at Medknow have a wide range of services which could be tailored to suit your needs:

1. Printing and distribution
2. Journals' web sites
3. Online manuscript submission and peer-review system
4. Subscription and advertisement management
5. Consultancy

Advantages of working with Medknow

Pre-print services: 

• Use of online manuscript submission and electronic peer review system (www.journalonweb.com)

• Eliminates total dependency on post and email
• Web-based system saves postal cost and time, allows multiple editors to work as a group
• Articles can be sent to reviewers from any country, online system facilitates submission from other countries
• Ease of tracking of process
• Automatization of process such as acknowledgements of receipts, reminders, etc. saving time and resources
• Additional author-friendly features such as reference checking, copy-right form upload, publication schedule, etc.
• Ease of record keeping: on the fly reports such as submission-decision period, acceptance-publication time, etc.

• Good quality of printing
• Good reproduction of photographs
• Reference corrections, copy-editing, uniform style
• International norms in journal publishing - based on guidelines provided by the international agencies

• Indexing with bibliographic databases
• Providing bibliographic records to indexing agencies and secondary aggregating agencies, thus making the issues available instantly with these agencies 
• Hassle-free distribution network: keeping track of returns 
• Feature rich websites

• Facility to search across the full text of multiple journals 
• Facility to submit comments or remarks on published article
• Ability to go to the other sites via reference and external linking 
• Linking from other sites so that visitors can reach journal site
• Good ranking with search engines which enables people to find your site
• Moving with the international trend: Metatags for articles (e.g. DC metadata), user statistics, site structure (e.g. OpenURL), multiple mirroring, and more
• Future-readiness - An ability to adapt with the changing norms and technology 

• Better marketing: increasing subscription and advertisement revenue. 

• Subscriptions of all journals increases as most libraries subscribe to all our journals to get additional discount
• Established contacts with subscription agents and document delivery services across the globe 
• Librarians and agents need to send a single 'cheque' for most of their requirements 
• Part of major international consortia

We aim at making the published research more visible and accessible. The journal will benefit from all our efforts in fulfilling this aim. Whether it is automatization of subscription process, online payment gateway, or more features added on journal websites, the ultimate beneficiary will be the journal.