The Royal Society, the UK's autonomous scientific academy, and Stanford University's HighWire Press recently announced a new partnership to offer the Society's publications online. Under the deal, all content of the Society's eight periodicals, some dating as back as 1665, will be live on HighWire's ePublishing platform, beginning 2009.
The Royal Society will launch on HighWire's next generation platform, H2O. HighWire built H2O to enable a Publishing 2.0 site. This new XML-based electronic publishing environment makes use of standards beyond just the input and display to include all layers of the technology. The platform infrastructure is claimed to be highly permeable, flexible and modular so that it can interact easily with many other systems and Web 2.0 applications. This in turn will enable HighWire's publishers to transform a traditional website into a truly active marketing web presence.
A division of the Stanford University Libraries, HighWire Press provides online site development and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. It produces the definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content in many disciplines. Since 1995, HighWire has partnered with influential societies, university presses and other publishers to create a vast database of the finest, fully searchable research, medical and social science literature available on the Internet.
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