Leading academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is transferring
responsibility for the production and hosting of its growing corpus of online
journals to HighWire Press, the electronic imprint of Stanford University
Libraries.
Ten biomedical journals will be transferred at the beginning of 1999
(Brain, Carcinogenesis, Health
Education Research, Human Reproduction,
International Immunology, Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, Molecular Human Reproduction,
Mutagenesis, Neurocase, and Protein
Engineering). Responsibility for the balance of OUP's online journals
will gradually be transferred to HighWire over the next two years. By the end
of 1999 OUP expects to have a total of some 85 journals online, of which some 34
will have moved to HighWire and will be available in both HTML and PDF formats.
"Our hopes and plans for HighWire's growth are based on working with the best
scholarly publications — those that genuinely contribute to the advancement
of knowledge — and we are thus delighted to inaugurate the partnership with
OUP," says Michael A. Keller, Stanford University Librarian and Publisher of
HighWire Press. HighWire Director, John Sack, adds: "The OUP journals
complement the range of high-impact journals now online through HighWire; with
cross-linking among all these journals, the online environment will be far
richer and more productive for the working researcher and scholar."
Henry Reece, Secretary to the Delegates and Chief Executive, OUP, comments:
"Oxford University Press has always been at the forefront of journals publishing
and many of its journals are already available online. This strategic alliance
with HighWire Press will enable us to expand our online publishing programme and
contribute to improving the dissemination of information to researchers and
scholars world-wide."
An enterprise unit of the Stanford University Libraries located on the
university campus, HighWire Press is the pre-eminent producer and distributor of
electronic journals in the academic world, currently producing over 90 top
international e-journals in the fields of science, technology, and medicine.
Its advanced methodology offers added links among authors, articles and
citations; advanced searching capabilities; high-resolution images and
multimedia; and interactivity, providing additional dimensions to the
information provided in print journals.