Oxford Journals extends their contract with HighWire Press
1 September 2008Oxford Journals today announced the extension of their contract with HighWire Press, the premier online hosting division of the Stanford University Libraries. With this agreement, HighWire will continue hosting the online content of all journals published by Oxford University Press through 2010.
Oxford Journals has partnered with HighWire for over a decade, and during that time has grown to 220 journals online. Readers enjoy a wide range of functionality such as full-text searching, toll-free reference links to the full text of over 1150 journals on the HighWire platform, and the ability to export citations, link to similar articles, create RSS feeds, and be alerted when chosen articles and authors are cited.Oxford Journals will soon be migrating to HighWire’s recently launched new platform, H2O, a completely standards-based hosting environment designed to be flexible and adaptable to changing electronic publishing needs. The new HighWire publishing platform will also offer OUP innovative tools such as customized widgets, interactive marketing options as well as interoperability with the many third party applications emerging from Web 2.0 development and beyond.
“OUP was looking for an agile base from which to continue to innovate and serve its partnering societies”, said John Sack, Director of HighWire Press. “HighWire’s new platform, H2O, will provide that and put OUP at the forefront of electronic publishing. We look forward to expanding our relationship and moving in the new exciting directions that OUP is planning.”
Pam Sutherland, Operations Director at Oxford Journals, comments, "We are very pleased to be extending our contract with HighWire. Feedback indicates that our users are extremely satisfied with the service that HighWire provides and we would like to ensure that they can take advantage of all the new functionality planned for the near future."
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For more information, please contact:
Kirsty Luff
Senior Communications and Marketing Manager, Oxford Journals
+44 (0)1865 354206
Notes to Editors
Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. Read more about OUP
Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 220 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about Oxford Journals
HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, provides online site development and hosting solutions to the scholarly publishing community. HighWire 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. The HighWire community shares ideas and innovations in publishing through regular meetings, discussion forum and through the service of its unique blend of highly qualified staff. HighWire has recently launched its dynamic new electronic hosting platform, H2O. For more information on H2O, please visit our website at:http://highwire.stanford.edu
