Royal Society Publishing has announced that its online journal content is now hosted on the HighWire H2O platform. The new domain http://royalsocietypublishing.org replaces the site on MetaPress. Title-level redirects are now in place until the end of April on the old MetaPress site to take users automatically to the relevant journal homepage on HighWire where all journal content, 1665 to the present day, is now loaded. To give libraries time to check their e-access accounts and make necessary changes all content is open to visitors until March 31. After that date only subscribers will be able to access current content for Royal Society journals.
HighWire's H2O platform infrastructure is designed to cooperate with emerging web services and technologies, keeping publishers ahead of the curve. Because the system architecture seamlessly accommodates content structured in different ways, H2O is designed not only to accommodate the latest technology, but also to anticipate the technology of the future. The e-publishing software platform will allow Royal Society Publishing content to be more accessible, and more portable, than ever. It will enable readers to take the latest scientific discoveries with them, through RSS feeds or through any other flexible - and future - innovations in online publishing.
HighWire, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, 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. 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. In addition to just handling XML input and output, HighWire's electronic publishing platform H2O, which debuted in March 2008, incorporates standards like Atom Publishing Protocol (backed by Google & Microsoft), and powerful tools such as the MarkLogic Server.
