ASBMB News, February 2002:
JBC Joins With HighWire to Open Broad Portal to Biomedical Research
ASBMB's Journal of Biological Chemistry and Stanford University's HighWire Press have joined
together to create a single Portal for access to biomed-ical research literature. The new portal
includes all Medline content, plus all full text for the three hundred journals HighWire produces
online, such as Science and PNAS.
"This Portal," said Robert Simoni, Deputy Editor of JBC, "provides ASBMB members with one-stop
access to all the HighWire Press online literature, including over 11,000,000 research articles of
which 380,000 are free full text articles. For authors of JBC papers, we expect the portal will
bring additional readers and recognition to their work."
The site provides powerful new search features, making it possible to search all of Medline's
abstracts and all of HighWire's full text with one click plus a number of ways to sort and format
results. It is much easier to scan large results and pick out important articles by journal because
you see the journal cover right there. The new site should be a single place to do your most
convenient searching.
"This past year researchers have told us what is important to the productivity of their work with
the literature: barrier-free access to more full-text content, easier, more comprehensive and more
precise cross-journal searching, and subject-specific, personalized email alerts," said John Sack,
Director of HighWire.
The Portal features 93,000 full text JBC articles dating from 1980 through the current issues.
Access to all JBC papers is free to ASBMB members through the free on-line subscription that is a
benefit of membership.
"We hope you find the HighWire Library of the Sciences and Medicine the single Internet site from
which to organize, access and manage the ever-growing research literature," said Dr. Simoni. "This
portal represents one more effort to better serve the research and teaching needs of ASBMB members."