MedKnow Publications is an academic publisher

Academic publishing

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 of open access

Open access journal

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 peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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s published on behalf of scholarly societies and learned associations. MedKnow publishes over 135 print and online journals. Its journal websites use the OpenURL

OpenURL

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 standard, making it easy for libraries to link users directly from citation to the full text of the article. Most of the journals published by MedKnow are archived at multiple places including PubMed Central

PubMed Central

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, Bioline International, and Portico.