M. A. Keller, A.C. Herkovic

The HighWire Press: A Study in Service to Scholarly Communication

medizin-bibliothek-Information  2002  Vol.2 Nummer3:10-13         [PDF-Volltext]


HighWire Press, a department of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, is a not-for-profit supplier of a variety of Internet services to over 110 publishers of 340 scholarly journals, principally in the areas of life sciences and medicine, but with some general science and social scientific titles as well. Toll Free Linking and Free Back Issues programs at HighWire provide free access to over 440,000 articles.This article describes the current features and functions provided with HighWire support as well as some of the new features to appear in the immediate future. Knowledge environments, a new sort of comprehensive web-based workspace designed to help scientists do science more effectively are described. LOCKSS, net-cacheing, peer-to-peer archiving software under development at Stanford is discusses as well as an extensive study of readers of Internet editions of HighWire journals, known as Ejust. References to additional information are provided.