HighWire Bolsters Management Team with Key Business Development and COO Appointments

SUMMARY: "HighWire is pleased to announce the appointments of Bill Matthews as Director of Business Development, and Ed Braniff as Chief Operations Officer. The staff structural expansion is designed to further enhance HighWire's organizational focus on innovation, community and customer service." [+] more

Press Release, 4 January 2012

ECS Selects HighWire Press to Host Its Digital Library

SUMMARY: "ECS Publisher Mary Yess announced that The Electrochemical Society has awarded the hosting of its ECS Digital Library to Stanford University's HighWire Press. "We know," remarked Yess, "that HighWire will not only be hosting ECS's legacy content of more than 75,000 papers and abstracts, but will also offer a new set of opportunities for visibility and discoverability for future research published by the Society."" [+] more

Press Release, 29 November 2011

HighWire Matters: HighWire honored in EContent magazine's Top 100 Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry

SUMMARY: "HighWire Press is mentioned for its work in two categories: Content Creation (for its tools used to create, convert, use & reuse content in various ways) and for Distribution & Delivery (designing networks and tools that create new paths and opportunities for digital content to find its way to inboxes, web browsers & mobile devices)." [+] more

Press Release, 28 November 2011

GeoScienceWorld Portal Debuts on HighWire's Open Platform -- New Look, Features, and Google Maps™ Searching

SUMMARY: "GeoScienceWorld (GSW) announces a set of major portal upgrades. GSW's 40 journals will be delivered in an XML environment supported by HighWire's Open Platform technology. While the bulk of the platform changes are infrastructural and will be invisible to users, GSW is simultaneously releasing its new branded look and feel for the site and a powerful new suite of user tools, including Google Maps-enabled advanced searching. www.geoscienceworld.org " [+] more

Press Release, 21 November 2011

HighWire Roadmap Includes Rollout of 900+ Mobile Sites by Year‐End

SUMMARY: "With the latest release of its robust mobile platform, HighWire Press will increase its delivery of mobile‐optimized sites from 600 to 900+ by the end of 2011, expanding the opportunities for the community of HighWire affiliated publishers to extend their content and readership in exciting new directions through smartphones and tablets." [+] more

Press Release, 27 October 2011

HighWire Press partners with TEMIS to semantically enrich Publishers' Content

SUMMARY: "HighWire Press and TEMIS announced today they entered into a strategic technology and business partnership. Under the agreement, HighWire will integrate the full suite of Luxid® software within its ePublishing Platform to provide automated content annotation, enrichment and linking to its customers. "The best platform for scholarly publishing just got better," said HighWire's Managing Director, Tom Rump." [+] more

Press Release, 25 October 2011

HighWire Introduces 5-Star Article Rating Feature on SAGE Open

SUMMARY: "With the recent launch of the peer-reviewed research journal, SAGE Open (www.sageopen.com), and its new, interactive article rating feature, HighWire Press once again demonstrates its support of independent scholarly publishers with a tool designed for Open Access publications. This new feature, 5-star article rating, gives readers the opportunity to weigh in on the quality and impact of a particular article in a transparent open community forum." [+] more

Press Release, 6 September 2011

ASCO Cancer Research Portals Launch on HighWire

SUMMARY: "HighWire Press is proud to present a suite of themed portals for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The subject-specific cancer portals are an invaluable one-stop resource for readers seeking scientific abstracts, videos, links and other materials. For publishers, the portals offer a glimpse into the flexibility of HighWire's Open Platform to repurpose, integrate and monetize content within and beyond their HighWire-hosted publications." [+] more

Press Release, 4 August 2011

HighWire Strengthens Publication Management Team

SUMMARY: "HighWire welcomes two high profile members to its Publication Management team: Judith Barnsby, formerly head of e-Development at IOP Publishing, based in the UK, and Bert Carelli, most recently with semantics enrichment company, Access Innovations." [+] more

Press Release, 11 July 2011

HighWire's Open Platform Empowers Publishers to Integrate and Co-develop

SUMMARY: "The promise of HighWire's open and standards-based ePublishing platform is being realized as publishers have the tools to access, repurpose and integrate content within and beyond their HighWire-hosted publications." [+] more

Press Release, 2 June 2011

SAGE Journals Going Mobile with HighWire

SUMMARY: "SAGE is pleased to announce that their entire collection of online journal sites will soon be available in a mobile-optimized format, taking advantage of the HighWire Mobile Web interface." [+] more

Press Release, 1 June 2011

Anesthesia & Analgesia Debuts New HighWire Mobile and CME Sites

SUMMARY: "The International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) announced the launch of a series of mobile sites for IARS' peer-reviewed journal, Anesthesia & Analgesia, taking advantage of HighWire's Mobile Web interface, and including the debut of the first mobile CME product from HighWire." [+] more

Press Release, 18 May 2011

SMPTE to Launch Digital Library on HighWire Platform

SUMMARY: "HighWire Press is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) to create a vibrant new digital library built and hosted upon the highly acclaimed HighWire Publishing platform. SMPTE is the worldwide leader in motion-imaging standards and education for the communications, media, and entertainment industries." [+] more

Press Release, 16 May 2011

HighWire's John Sack honored with Top CSE Award

SUMMARY: "HighWire is proud to announce that its Founding Director, John Sack, has been awarded the 2011 CSE Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Council of Science Editors at their annual meeting in Baltimore. The award for Meritorious Achievement is the highest honor that the CSE bestows, highlighting the contributions and efforts of an individual towards improving scientific communication." [+] more

Press Release, 2 May 2011

HighWire Announces Appointment of Managing Director Tom Rump and New Investment from Stanford

SUMMARY: "HighWire Press has announced the appointment of Tom Rump as Managing Director. "HighWire has been the industry leader for over 15 years and now is the right time for Stanford to facilitate a period of rapid growth and progress," said Michael A. Keller, University Librarian and Founder/Publisher of HighWire. "Tom Rump is the ideal choice to build on HighWire's success." Tom's role will be to strengthen HighWire's management processes and further develop its strategic plans. " [+] more

Press Release, 27 April 2011

AAAS/Science Selects TEMIS for Semantics Content Enrichment Project with HighWire

SUMMARY: "The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its decision to work with its ePublishing partner, HighWire Press, and TEMIS, leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions for the Enterprise, to offer a new, integrated, semantically fueled digital publishing program." [+] more

Press Release, 7 April 2011

Content Discovery: Break the Barriers for End Users

SUMMARY: "Anh Bui writes a chapter for book edited by Sue Polanka, E-Reference Context and Discoverability in Libraries: Issues and Concepts. Covering common practices, common failures and the issue of Serendipity: "The pursuit of reference information is central to the user and, therefore, should be construed as the larger context in which to understand user behavior." " [+] more

Press Release, 16 March 2011

AACR Selects Access Innovations for Semantic Indexing of Content on HighWire

SUMMARY: "The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected Access Innovations as its semantics partner to enhance the discoverability of journal content on the HighWire platform as well as across the AACR organization." [+] more

Press Release, 3 February 2011

Full-Text CHEST Journal App Available

SUMMARY: "HighWire Press and the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) are pleased to announce the release of a universal, full-text app of the CHEST Journal designed specifically for the iPad and iPhone devices." [+] more

Press Release, 4 January 2011

HighWire Launches Six Mobile Web Sites in Collaboration with the American Heart Association

SUMMARY: "Announcing the launch of the HighWire Mobile Web Interface for six American Heart Association journals. The Mobile Web Interface is a publication website optimized for the small screen of smartphone devices. This is the first of a suite of mobile products from HighWire, which includes an iPhone and iPad full text app as well as a RSS-driven iPhone app and full text Amazon Kindle support. " [+] more

Press Release, 30 November 2010

Data Conversion Laboratory Selected to Perform Major Conversion Project for HighWire Press

SUMMARY: "Data Conversion Laboratory, Inc. has been selected to aid HighWire Press in an ongoing project to standardize files HighWire hosts online on behalf of scholarly publishers." [+] more

Press Release, 12 October 2010

Enhancing Journal Articles: A Look at the Future of Supplemental Material

SUMMARY: "NISO's Summer issue of Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) magazine includes a special themed issue on Enhanced Journal Articles. Kristen Fisher Ratan (Associate Director, Strategic Development, HighWire Press) compiled a set of articles that not only reveal the challenges involved with managing supplemental materials for journal articles but also identify solutions and recommendations for standards and best practices." [+] more

Press Release, 4 October 2010

Independent Scholarly Publishers Group to work with Dragonfly to promote their journals around the world

SUMMARY: "Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting is thrilled to announce a new group of publishers called the Independent Scholarly Publishers Group (ISPG). ISPG is a coalition of independent publishers of journals and related academic content (hosted on the HighWire platform) that will promote, market to and negotiate with library consortia, hospitals and other organizations around the globe. " [+] more

Press Release, 16 September 2010

Oxford University Press announces completion of journal content migration

SUMMARY: "Oxford University Press (OUP) is pleased to announce the successful migration of its 1.2 million online journal articles to its new HighWire 2.0 platform. The move has allowed OUP to develop a more user-friendly and dynamic online experience of its journals designed around proven web publishing standards powered by HighWire Press H2O web technologies." [+] more

Press Release, 9 September 2010

Migration to the next generation of Journals Online completed

SUMMARY: "SAGE announced today the successful, complete migration of its more than 560 journals to the next generation of SAGE Journals Online, supported by HighWire's H2O technology." [+] more

Press Release, 27 August 2010

HighWire Presents Findings from eBooks Librarian Survey

SUMMARY: "HighWire has released the full results and analysis of it's Fall 2009 librarians' survey on eBooks. The report, by Michael Newman, Stanford University Biology Librarian, draw together responses of 138 librarians and underscore the significant growth they expect in ebook acquisitions and point to their current preferences and possible trends." [+] more

Press Release, 3 March 2010

Updating the Digital Image of a Global Leader in ePublishing

SUMMARY: "HighWIre works with dystrick design to create a fully integrated digital brand rejuvenation." [+] more

Press Release, 11 January 2010