HighWire Press and Its Journey to Become the World's Largest Full-Text STM Online Journal Collection

Abstract

It has been nearly ten years since Stanford University founded HighWire Press, a producer of online journals in science, technology, and medicine (STM). This article examines the phenomenon of HighWire Press and discusses its history and its future as a premier host of online scholarly journals in science and medicine. HighWire Press is examined from the publisher's, institutional subscriber's, and individual user's experience. Key initiatives in e-journal publishing that were developed at HighWire Press are reviewed.