Our mission is to ensure the continuing success of independent, society-based and other scientific and scholarly publishers in their efforts to disseminate high-quality content worldwide. An enterprise of Stanford University, HighWire builds both the community and the technological environment that publishers need to thrive within the challenging business of electronic publishing. HighWire and its
publishing partners develop and explore new ideas and emerging technologies to innovate sustainable solutions that meet the ongoing challenges of research communication.
- - - John Sack, Director, HighWire Press
HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University
Libraries, which produces the online versions of high-impact,
peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Recipient of
the ALPSP Award for "Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing",
HighWire partners with influential scholarly societies,
university presses and publishers to create a collection of the
finest, fully searchable research and clinical literature online. Together, these partners produce 71 of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals publishing in science.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text
life science articles in the world, with 1,903,158 articles available without subscription.
Since 1995, with the launch of the
Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), to the continuous online
production of hundreds of prestigious journals, such as Science
Magazine, the New England Journal of Medicine, PNAS and JAMA,
HighWire has established an outstanding reputation for helping
to disseminate primary scientific information on the Web.
From time to time HighWire Press has open positions.
Current openings, if any, can be found on the
Stanford University job site using HighWire as a search term.