HighWire Press News: Expansion of Program for Books and Reference Works
by Eleanor Brown
HighWire Press, the online publishing division of Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR), hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, including journals and full text articles from over 140 scholarly publishers.
In addition to over 100 books, reference works, and other non-journal content sites, HighWire hosts editions of over 1200 full text journals in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities, as well as cross-content products for niche markets that combine content from many different sources.
Recently, HighWire announced an increase in the growth of its books program, with over 30 new titles launched online so far this year and hundreds more scheduled through 2009 and early 2010.
For many years, HighWire has developed and hosted non-journal content, such as books, reference works, databases, continuing education, and conference proceedings sites. In 2000, the Oxford English Dictionary was launched on HighWire, and in 2003, Red Book Online, the reference work on childhood infectious disease published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, launched on HighWire.
The quantity of books and reference works going live or planning to launch with HighWire has increased significantly in recent years as publishers seek greater integration between journals and other online content.
"In the next 12 months, about a third of the new sites going up on HighWire will be books, reference works, and handbooks," said John Sack, Director of HighWire. "Our approach involves intelligently integrating books and journals online to offer publishers new opportunities to productize (and monetize) across all content."
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