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Access and archiving policies

Medknow Publications publishes peer-reviewed scholarly journals indexed with most international A&I databases. Majority of these journals provide immediate free access to the full text of articles in HTML format. The journals also permit authors' self-archiving. Most of the journals do not charge article submission, processing or publication fee from the authors or authors' institution. The open access policy of the journals aims at increasing the visibility and accessibility of the published content and thus providing the desirable research impact.

PDF access policy

The HTML versions of all articles, except those digitized retrospectively, are available for free for all even without any registration. PDF access is also free for most of the journals in the developing world. This policy is very well compatible with the definition of open access where HTML is always free and only PDF (an add on) is not available to every reader.

http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm
OA is compatible with priced add-ons. As long as the full-text is OA, priced enhancements are compatible with OA. If the enhancements are expensive to provide, then the providers may have to charge for them; if they are valuable, then providers are likely to find people willing to pay for them. At some OA journals, priced add-ons provide part of the revenue needed to pay for the OA.

http://www.soros.org/openaccess/read.shtml
There are many alternative sources of funds for this purpose, including the foundations and governments that fund research, the universities and laboratories that employ researchers, endowments set up by discipline or institution, friends of the cause of open access, profits from the sale of add-ons to the basic texts, funds freed up by the demise or cancellation of journals charging traditional subscription or access fees, or even contributions from the researchers themselves.