HighWire Press wins ALPSP award

[Bonnie Zavon <bzavon@stanford.edu>]

HighWire Press wins award for service to nonprofit publishing

At ceremonies held Sept. 18 at the British Library in London, HighWire
Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries, was named winner of
the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' (ALPSP)
2003 Award for Service to Not-for-Profit Publishing.

HighWire produces online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals
and other scholarly content. It hosts the largest repository of free
full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 600,000 free,
full-text articles online.

HighWire provides "a magnificent service to not-for-profit and society
publishers. Many agree that their journal web sites are 'state of the
art,'" according to the ALPSP Report 03, distributed at the awards
ceremony. "They are truly innovative and are constantly researching new
functionality for their customers. Indeed, as they get ever better at
preparing our content for the web they pass on economics of scale and
process efficiencies; where else would we actually see genuine cuts in
costs from our suppliers?" In a presentation given by ALPSP judge Charles
Fry, of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, it was noted
that "HighWire hosts two publisher meetings a year, which have become
legendary for the degree of collegiality between publishers, editors and
HighWire."

With continuous online production and support of such prestigious journals
as the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), Science Magazine, and The
New England Journal of Medicine, HighWire has established an outstanding
reputation as an innovative partner for scholarly societies in the online
world. As a division of Stanford University, HighWire offers its
affiliated publishers a unique opportunity to leverage the experience,
experiments and intellect of leading society colleagues. Within the
HighWire community, peers share with peers their successes and travails in
the online publishing environment and brainstorm together for the
collective good.

"Stanford created HighWire Press precisely for the purpose of improving
scholarly publishing through more effective use of the online
environment,"  comments Michael A. Keller, HighWire's Publisher and the
Stanford University Librarian. "ALPSP's award, as a form of recognition of
academia's common purpose with responsible scholarly publishers, is very
welcome, particularly in this time of confusion about the mission and
economics of journal publication."

About HighWire Press

HighWire partners with influential scholarly societies, university presses
and publishers to create a collection of the finest, fully searchable
research and clinical literature online. Together, these partners produce
nearly half of the 200 most-frequently-cited journals publishing in
science. Since 1995, with the launch of the Journal of Biological
Chemistry (JBC), to the continuous online production of hundreds of
prestigious journals, such as Science Magazine, the New England Journal of
Medicine, PNAS and JAMA, HighWire has established an outstanding
reputation for helping to disseminate primary scientific information on
the Web. For further information, go to http://highwire.org or, for
readers outside the United States, http://intl.highwire.org.

About ALPSP

Formed in 1972, the Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers' mission is to serve, represent and strengthen the community of
not-for-profit publishers and those who work with them to disseminate
academic and professional information. The association monitors national
and international issues and represents the interests of members to the
wider world. It helps its members, and others, to prepare for the
challenges of the future through a program of education, training and
development. (www.alpsp.org)

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Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
  HighWire Press
  Stanford University
  650.723.0522 voice
  650.736.1981 fax
http://highwire.stanford.edu/~bzavon