HighWire is an
internet hosting service
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in the United States specialising in academic and scholarly publications. HighWire-hosted publishers collectively make over 2 million articles available (out of 7.5 million articles) freely accessible.
History
HighWire was founded by
Stanford University Libraries
The Stanford University Libraries (SUL), formerly known as "Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources" ("SULAIR"), is the library system of Stanford University in California. It encompasses more than 24 libraries in all. S ...
in 1995.
The ''
Journal of Biological Chemistry
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'' (JBC) (1905) published by the
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, was the first to launch online on the HighWire platform.
In 2014, majority ownership of HighWire was purchased by the
private equity firm
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Accel-KKR
Accel-KKR is an American technology-focused private equity firm with over $14 billion in total assets under management. The firm invests primarily in middle-market software and technology-enabled services businesses, providing capital for buyo ...
.
In 2017, it was announced that the entirety of the journals published by HighWire would be indexed in
Meta
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.
In 2020, HighWire was acquired by MPS Limited.
Reviews and awards
While HighWire is primarily a hosting facility, a 2007 study showed that its search engine outperformed
PubMed
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in the identification of desired articles, and yielded a higher number of search results than when the same search was performed on PubMed. PubMed, however, was faster.
HighWire was the recipient of the 2003
Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers
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(ALPSP) Award for "Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing", and was named one of the "Ten to Watch" organizations in the Scientific, Technical & Medical information space in 2014 by Outsell. Founding Director John Sack was awarded the Council of Science Editors (CSE) 2011 Award for Meritorious Achievement.
In 2018, HighWire won the Best Business Intelligence Reporting & Analytics Solution award for their Vizors analytics product at the
SIIA CODiE Awards.
HighWire was named a 'Best Place to Work' by The Business Intelligence Group in May 2018.
References
External links
HighWire websiteList of all publications hosted on HighWire
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Electronic publishing
Academic publishing
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