Online technology provider in scholarly publishing HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has reached a significant milestone with the posting of the five millionth article on its e-Publishing platform. HighWire provides technology and customised online services to 140 publishing partners ranging from independent non-profit societies and associations, to university presses and large commercial publishers.
The milestone occurred while loading a substantial amount of journal backfiles on behalf of the American Medical Association. Bringing the HighWire total article count over the 5 million mark was an article dating from 1884, 'Dermatitis Herpetiformis' by Louis A. Duhring, MD1, published in JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. The JAMA & Archives Journals Backfiles Collection will ensure that 125 years of high quality medical research will be available online at the journals' web sites on the HighWire platform.
HighWire has grown over the years to host the definitive online versions of journals, books, reference works, monographs, dictionaries, proceedings, edited collections and Knowledge Environments. JAMA & Archives Journals are among the dozens of publishers who have released, or are planning to release, a complete online record of their publications on HighWire, including AAAS' ScienceClassic, The Rockefeller University Press Archives, SAGE Publications backfiles, American Academy of Pediatrics e-Archives, the BMJ backfiles archive, and many more. By individual publisher policy, over 2 million of those 5 million articles are available online to readers without subscription barriers.
