Advancing global healthcare research with open, trusted, and impactful science

At Wolters Kluwer, our commitment to open science extends beyond access — we ensure visibility, impact, and seamless publishing experiences that empower researchers, healthcare professionals, and institutions worldwide. By combining editorial excellence, global reach, and cutting-edge digital tools, we enable healthcare knowledge to drive meaningful advancements in patient care and scientific discovery.

Why choose Wolters Kluwer for open access?

Our mission goes beyond publishing; we partner with researchers to ensure research makes a lasting impact. Here’s what makes us different:

Built on trust

A trusted name in healthcare publishing, backed by rigorous editorial standards and a growing portfolio of journals.

Global reach

Our content is accessed worldwide, with over 2.6 million article downloads annually.

Maximize impact

On average, the open access articles we publish receive double the citations of comparable subscription articles.
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Open Access at Wolters Kluwer
At Wolters Kluwer, we believe that advancing global healthcare begins with a powerful idea: Making research open, trusted, and impactful. Discover how Wolters Kluwer supports open access to expand the reach and influence of our published research.

A legacy of open access excellence

Since launching our open access program with the acquisition of Medknow in 2011, Wolters Kluwer has built one of the world’s largest healthcare-focused open access portfolios. Medknow, originally founded in 1997, laid the foundation for our robust open access offerings, and in 2014, we further advanced our OA commitments by transitioning our multidisciplinary journal, Medicine, to be fully open access. Today, over 65% of our journal portfolio is fully open access, covering more than 50 specialties across medicine and health. Each year, we publish over 61,000 open access articles on average, based on the past five years, making important research widely accessible to the communities that need it most.

Open access options are available across 100% of our journals, with a diverse range of publishing models — including Gold, Diamond, Hybrid, and open access agreements — so authors can select the pathway that best fits their research goals and funding requirements. With streamlined workflows that reduce time to publication to as little as four weeks, our open access solutions are designed to support authors at every step.

At Wolters Kluwer, we don’t just publish research – we amplify its impact, ensuring it reaches the right audiences, in the right way, at the right time.
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Two brands, one powerful platform

At Wolters Kluwer, open access publishing is supported by more than journals alone. Ovid®, our advanced research platform, powers global discovery and access — helping ensure work is seen, cited, and used where it matters most. Ovid hosts over 82 million research sessions annually, averaging 2.5 million visits per month.

Publishing OA with Wolters Kluwer means joining an open access portfolio built on two trusted brands — each designed to broaden the reach and impact of your research:

Lippincott®

Known worldwide for trusted, peer-reviewed healthcare content — many Lippincott journals shape clinical guidelines and policy.
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Medknow
A pioneer in open access, Medknow offers a diverse portfolio of journals that provide authors with more choice, flexible publishing models, and affordable pathways to publication – all supported by hands-on editorial guidance.
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Open medicine and global health equity

Wolters Kluwer explores the role of Open Medicine in achieving global health equity and the roles open access to scholarly publications, open data sharing and open source/open code can play.

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