HighWire Press celebrates a milestone today with the launch of its 1000th journal site, the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. The Society has been publishing mathematical research papers since 1865, now with the assistance of Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, one of HighWire’s premier publishing partners.
“Reaching 1000 journals on HighWire is an exciting achievement. Beginning with several high-impact science and medicine journals in 1995, we now offer an affordable and customizable online home to journals from all disciplines,” said John Sack, Director of HighWire Press. “We are very pleased to welcome the London Mathematical Society to our online environment and especially to the collaborative community of scholarly publishers that work with HighWire.”
The mission of HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, is to help not-for-profit societies, university presses, and other scholarly publishers produce quality Internet versions of high-impact journals and research information. The HighWire program is growing dramatically, having started with online access to the Journal of Biological Chemistry in 1995, followed by Science, PNAS and other top ranked journals. HighWire now produces the definitive online version of 1000 journals in the spheres of science, social science, and the humanities as well as online reference works, databases, books, and other scholarly content.
“HighWire Press have established themselves as the best online host for academic content, and continue to provide us with an impressive level of service,” said Catherine Morgan, Editor, Maths and Physical Sciences, Oxford Journals. ”The Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society is among the world’s leading mathematical research periodicals, and from 2007 HighWire will be hosting the journal’s entire archive, dating back to 1865, allowing seamless searching of over 150 years of important mathematical research.”
Publishers select HighWire to produce and host their content because, in addition to offering technological expertise, HighWire has assembled a strong community of scholarly publishers who meet regularly to share ideas, innovations, and results from their publishing experiments. HighWire’s unparalleled commitment to service provides publishers with a true partner to consult with about all aspects of online publishing. HighWire offers support and services that are affordable for publishers of all sizes.
“HighWire-hosted publishers don’t feel like they have to ‘go it alone’ as they move ahead with editorial, business and technology experiments and decisions. Even societies that publish a single journal can find strength and knowledge in numbers” says Sack.
About HighWire Press
HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, provides online site development and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. HighWire produces the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content in many disciplines. Since 1995, HighWire has partnered with influential societies, university presses and other publishers to create a vast database of the finest, fully searchable research, medical and social science literature available on the Internet. The HighWire community shares ideas and innovations in publishing through regular meetings, discussion forum and through the service of HighWire staff. http://highwire.stanford.edu
About the London Mathematical Society
The London Mathematical Society began publishing research papers in 1865 and over time it has published the best of British mathematics having developed an internationally renowned reputation as one of the best publishers of high quality mathematics in the world today. The journals attract authors from over 80 countries and the number of papers submitted has grown enormously in recent years, enabling the Society to select and publish some of the best mathematical research currently available. http://www.lms.ac.uk/
About Oxford Journals
Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals.
Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 180 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. www.oxfordjournals.org
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27 November 2006
Contact: Bonnie Zavon
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