HighWire Press
Encyclopedia
HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University
Libraries that produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Recipient of the 2003 Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP) Award for "Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing", HighWire collaborates with scholarly societies, university presses and publishers to host a large body of clinical and research literature. Over 70 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals in science are hosted on HighWire.
In 1995, the Journal of Biological Chemistry
(JBC) appeared online through HighWire. Since then a number of high-impact prestigious journals have joined the service, including Science
, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
.
With over 1400 publications on the HighWire platform, the organization has grown significantly over its 16 years. In addition to journals, HighWire produces and hosts ebooks, conference proceedings, databases, and more. HighWire offers publishers a comprehensive set of mobile products including mobile web, iPhone and iPad applications and ereader solutions.
in the identification of desired articles, and yielded a higher number of search results than when the same search was performed on PubMed. PubMed, however, was faster.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
Libraries that produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Recipient of the 2003 Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers is an international trade association of non-profit publishers created in 1972 It is the largest association of scholarly and professional publishers in the world, claiming "more than 360 members in 36 countries". It was granted in...
(ALPSP) Award for "Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing", HighWire collaborates with scholarly societies, university presses and publishers to host a large body of clinical and research literature. Over 70 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals in science are hosted on HighWire.
Content
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with over 1300 journals and over 4 million full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. HighWire-hosted publishers collectively make over 2 million articles available for free.In 1995, the Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Biological Chemistry
The Journal of Biological Chemistry is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 1905. Since 1925 it is published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. It covers research in any area of biochemistry or molecular biology. The editor-in-chief is...
(JBC) appeared online through HighWire. Since then a number of high-impact prestigious journals have joined the service, including Science
Science (journal)
Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is one of the world's top scientific journals....
, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, usually referred to as PNAS, is the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences...
.
With over 1400 publications on the HighWire platform, the organization has grown significantly over its 16 years. In addition to journals, HighWire produces and hosts ebooks, conference proceedings, databases, and more. HighWire offers publishers a comprehensive set of mobile products including mobile web, iPhone and iPad applications and ereader solutions.
Comparison
While HighWire is primarily a hosting facility, a 2007 study showed that its search engine outperformed PubMedPubMed
PubMed is a free database accessing primarily the MEDLINE database of references and abstracts on life sciences and biomedical topics. The United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health maintains the database as part of the Entrez information retrieval system...
in the identification of desired articles, and yielded a higher number of search results than when the same search was performed on PubMed. PubMed, however, was faster.