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Five million articles online at HighWire |
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2 December 2008 |
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HighWire Press have reached a significant milestone with the posting of the five millionth article on its e-publishing platform. HighWire, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, provides technology and customised online services to 140 publishing partners ranging from independent non-profit societies and associations, to university presses and large commercial publishers.
The milestone occurred while loading a substantial amount of journal backfiles on behalf of the American Medical Association. Bringing the HighWire total article count over the five million mark was an article dating from 1884, "Dermatitis Herpetiformis" by Louis A Duhring, MD1, published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Our publishing partners have been steadily entrusting more and more of their content online with us," said Julie Noblitt, HighWire's Associate Director of Publisher Relations. "Access to the full scholarly record online is invaluable and we are delighted to have played an important role in serving the scholarly community in this way." HighWire has grown over the years to host the definitive online versions of journals, books, reference works, monographs, dictionaries, proceedings, edited collections and Knowledge Environments.
"What started as a safe haven for pioneering scholarly societies going online in the mid-1990s has become an evolution in scholarly publishing," said HighWire's Director, John Sack. "From our unique perspective within the scholarly community, we have been flexible and open to experimentation in the community by envisioning the way of the future and paving the road to virtual research."
The 140 HighWire-affiliated publishers represent many disciplines. About half of the nearly 1,200 publications online at HighWire represent humanities and social sciences, and half cover the life sciences and medicine.
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