Portland Press Limited has signed an agreement to move its sector-leading journals, including the Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science and Bioscience Reports, to the HighWire Open Platform.
The new journal sites will see more than 10,000 pages of research published annually and a catalogue of papers dating back 100 years hosted on HighWire by mid-2015.
The HighWire Open Platform will provide a flexible publishing platform designed to adapt to the latest advances in online publishing; support of key industry standards, such as CrossMark, FundRef, COUNTER and ORCID; improved article discoverability and integration with services such as Google Scholar, PubMed and Web of Science; and inter-journal linking that will allow subscribers access to cited references and sources from other HighWire-hosted journal articles.
The agreement will see all journals published by Portland Press Ltd move to HighWire by mid-2015, including the Biochemical Journal, Biochemical Society Transactions, Bioscience Reports and Clinical Science.
According to Kate Baillie, Managing Director of Portland Press Ltd and Chief Executive of the Biochemical Society, the not-for-profit owner of Portland Press Ltd, this agreement will also benefit clients of Portland Customer Services, a division of Portland Press Ltd. Under the agreement, Portland Customer Services can provide its clients hosting services, as part of the range of membership, fulfilment and support services they offer to learned societies, professional associations and the publishing industry.
