At the outset …

We are pleased to present the first issue of the ‘Journal of Disability Studies’ in collaboration with Integrathed Science Publications, Delhi. The Journal of Disability Studies is an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed/refereed open access biannual journal. This is our humble and sincere effort to fulfill a long-standing need of an open access journal in the disability field. There are so many brilliant efforts to start journal in the disability field, some of the journals are successfully continuing since many years but there is dearth of open access journal particularly from India. There is no need to enlist advantages of open access journal over conventional print only or limited access online journal.