What HighWire is Doing in eBooks

The HighWire platform it is not a "journals platform" or a "books platform" but a content integration platform meant to support a wide range of scientific and scholarly publications. We currently host nearly 1200 books, including monograph titles, reference works, handbooks and book series, in a full range of displays (PDF for ease of use in printing and downloading, as well as full-text HTML for enhanced reader interactivity). Publishers with both journal and book content can use the HighWire platform to leverage cross-publication searching and linking, as well as to build new products as eCommerce models change and evolve across boundaries.

Here is a sample selection of the books we currently host:

AAP Red Book Online: large full-text HTML medical reference work with multiple editions hosted simultaneously; includes automated subject-based linking to the AAP Pediatrics journal Oxford Textbook of Medicine: large full-text HTML medical reference work with deeply layered content and navigation through a highly structured table of contents Oxford Medical Handbooks Online: a series of full-text HTML reference works with structured table-of-contents navigation and features such as PowerPoint downloading of images

Carlyle Letters Online: a full-text HTML collection of the 19th-century correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and his wife Jane Welsh Carlyle, featuring browsing by recipient and a 21,700-term hierarchical subject index APTA Guide to Physical Therapist Practice: full-text HTML clinical guidebook accompanied by a catalog of tests and measures SEPM Series: four series of edited collections and monographs with chapters offered as PDF and references as a separate HTML view linked to online resources       Special Publications       Concepts in Sedimentology       Short Course Notes       Core Workshop Notes

Even as we continue to launch new book products online, we recognize that in the rapidly evolving ebook market, there is still much to learn. In recent months the explosion of products, innovations, scrutiny, devices, technology, and business models has been breathtaking. Our evidence-based approach to publishing has led us to conduct a series of market research initiatives in this area, and as part of our mission we freely share our findings with the larger information community through reports and presentations at industry conferences. We invite you to take advantage of our findings:

►  Report and Analysis of HighWire Fall 2009 Librarian Survey on eBooks	►  Presentation on eBooks Discoverability & Visibility at Online Information 2010 (also presented at the 2009 Charleston Library Conference pre-meeting workshop on eBooks)
	►  Anh Bui, HighWire's Products Manager, interviewed by Sue Polanka from Wright State University Libraries on her blog, No Shelf Required.

If you are interested in learning more about HighWire's work in ebooks, please contact: marketing{at}highwire.org.