Stanford University’s HighWire Press® offers a full range of online publishing services that will suit the needs and budget of your organization. From manuscript submission and workflow systems to building a website that delivers your content worldwide, HighWire’s software and services assist you in meeting your publishing goals. We offer high-end hosting and development services to independent societies, associations, university presses, and other scholarly publishers.
Your custom website:
Create a unique look or select from one of our many design options and customize it to fit your organization. You decide.
Select from dozens of site features and options to create a site that fits the needs of your user community
Display content in whichever way works for you: full text HTML or PDF, by issue, ahead-of-print, or continuously, and add many content enrichment options
Provide personalization and alerting options that bring users in and keep them coming back
Advanced search and discovery tools:
Offer advanced research tools such as taxonomic browsing, content collections, sequence & structure database links, citation mapping and more. You decide.
Increase content discoverability and add new delivery systems, such as PDA, RSS, podcasting, and other feeds; be poised to handle new usage and delivery models in the future, such as OAI, Outbound OpenURL, and SRU
Incorporate Web2.0 technologies such as virtual symposia, interactive e-letters, online discussion forums, tagging, social bookmarking or blogs
Add data supplements, links and more multimedia data, eLetters, related links
Increase opportunities for revenue:
Incorporate a variety of business models from individual and institutional subscriptions to multiple types of e-commerce, or experiment with new models, including Open Access. You decide.
Manage subscription information enjoy complete visibility into and control over your subscription database, customer records, and access and activation reports
Increase your revenue move beyond subscriptions with new online business models, CME/CPD sites, collective advertising opportunities, and other ways to monetize traffic
Create advertising campaigns create and manage ad campaigns, whether house or commercial ads, generate reports on click-throughs and impressions
Make selected content freely available select issues or articles to make freely available, or set up free trials
Increased efficiency for all your staff:
Manage content flow using our timely and transparent content processing product, HighWire Express, Monitor progress of content production with this easy-to-use content production tool. You can manage this flow, your compositor can, or we can. You decide.
Streamline marketing tasks quickly access the information and tasks that marketing and business professionals need most
Generate reports of all kinds view dozens of different types of reports to assist in your marketing, editorial, technological and business decisions
A variety of resources for your librarian customers:
Library friendly Library administrators can manage IP addresses, generate COUNTER2-compliant usage reports, and select from a suite of other features to customize their institutions’ experience
One-stop maintenance creating an account on the HighWire Portal allows librarians to consolidate their tasks across most HighWire-affiliated publishers, offering your customers a significant and welcome time-saving option. As an independent publisher, this is a unique advantage of teaming up with HighWire.
State-of-the-Art IT Infrastructure and Internet Connectivity
HighWire delivers content using the highest speed network connectivity available in production with multiple 100-megabit connections to the Internet, which serves all of the high-tech companies in the greater Silicon Valley area and directly connects to the national Internet backbone.
In addition, Stanford is a Charter member of the not-for-profit Internet2, an advanced networking consortium comprising several hundred U.S. universities in cooperation with government agencies, laboratories and other institutions of higher learning as well as over 50 international partner organizations. Members have access to a unique nationwide high-performance network infrastructure that removes boundaries of today's Internet. Internet2 actively supports our community in developing and deploying advanced network applications and technology.
We offer complete operational support: conversion and loading of data, operation of the servers, network connectivity, 24-hour/7 days a week hardware and software maintenance, system backup, and archiving.
To serve your overseas customers, we offer an international private network -- with lines into the public Internet in about 30 countries -- to deliver consistent access speeds to Europe, Asia and South America. http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/intl.dtl
Flexible, and at your service
Our goal is to serve as an extension of your own staff (not as an outsourcing vendor with our own agenda). We provide seamless service integration with state of the art providers of web analytics, manuscript management, image analysis, fulfillment vendors, repository management. We know we’re not your only partner in the online publishing world.
We welcome the opportunity to work with your technical staff should they wish to implement and integrate their own versions of the services mentioned above or additional services that you help us create of our publishing partners and the communities they serve. Contact us for more information: online{at}highwire.stanford.edu