There is difference between open access and free access. Open access articles are available free for permanently, free access articles also available free but it is for a set time period. Similarly to understand open access, it is better to compare with subscription journals. In subscription journals individual person or institutions has to pay subscription charges to get the access to the journal concerned. But in open access journals, Individual readers are not being charged. Individual readers have free online access to the contents of the concerned open access journal. A journal is said to be open access when there is no charges to read, download, copy, print etc, in open access journals the author may have to pay to publish their manuscripts but it is not the obvious case for all kind of open access journals. Some open access journals charge to the authors as article processing charges.

Multi Disciplinary research bulletin follows gold model of open access policies wherein article published in Multi Disciplinary research bulletin will be freely available for the individual readers to use the informations published in the journal, read, copy etc. But to cover up publication cost authors has to pay article processing charges to the publisher.