HighWire-hosted journals in China

[Bonnie Zavon <bzavon@stanford.edu>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

HighWire Press's Chinese Connection

August 26, 2004. Stanford, California

HighWire Press, Stanford University's electronic journal development and
hosting service, has recently opened a direct pipeline Internet connection
with CERNET, the China Education and Research Network.  Online content
from all 361 HighWire-hosted journals, containing over 1.8 million
articles to date (more than 750,000 full text articles are freely
available without subscription) are now fully accessible through a
locally-hosted broadband connection authorized and supported by the
Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.

Because of this pathway to HighWire-hosted journals, readers affiliated
with China's academic institutions are able to access high-impact journal
content online without being charged for Internet traffic to foreign web
sites.  Chinese academic librarians can activate their online
subscriptions and run COUNTER-compliant usage reports directly through
each journal's subscriber help pages. The connection also allows Chinese
researchers and students to use the free full-text searching and alerting
features on the HighWire Portal:  http://intl.highwire.org without
incurring access fees.

As a result of this direct channel access, HighWire-affiliated publishers
have strengthened the link with their members, authors, and growing
readership within China. By improving online access to high-impact journal
content to current customers, and simplifying the route to the rapidly
growing free content available through HighWire, the CERNET connection is
another step on the road to breaking down barriers in disseminating
knowledge on the World Wide Web.

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About HighWire Press

HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, produces
the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other
scholarly content. Recipient of the 2003 ALPSP Award for "Service to
Not-for-Profit Publishing," HighWire partners with influential societies,
university presses and other scholarly publishers to create a collection
of the finest, fully searchable research, clinical, humanities and social
science literature online. Together, these partners produce nearly half of
the 200 most-frequently-cited journals publishing in science. From a
single host, users can find the largest repository of free full-text life
science articles in the world: over 750,000 free articles, on the Stanford
servers, plus links to thousands of others.

Born out of the serials crisis, HighWire Press was created as an
alternative to commercial journal web aggregators. The HighWire portal was
developed to provide a uniform interface for disparate journal sites, both
as a user-friendly launch pad for scholarly research, and as a way to
manage institutional subscriptions. Since 1995, with the launch of the
Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), to the continuous online production
of hundreds of prestigious journals, such as PNAS, Science Online, and the
New England Journal of Medicine, HighWire has established an outstanding
reputation for helping to disseminate primary scientific information on
the Web. For further information, go to www.highwire.org or, for readers
outside the U.S: http://intl.highwire.org

CERNET's National Center is located in Tsinghua University with regional,
provincial, and campus backbones supported at universities throughout the
country. Through international gateway bandwidth through channels
connected by an Internet2 link to the United States and other countries,
more than 1000 educational and research institutions, across over 200
cities, covering 10 million end users, have connected to CERNET to date.
CERNET enhances the information infrastructure in China, shortens the gap
between China and the west in the information industry, and plays a
pioneer role in China's information initiative.  
www.edu.cn/HomePage/english/

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For more information:
Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
HighWire Press -- Stanford University
bzavon@stanford.edu
+1-650-723-0522