Royal Society of Medicine Press choose HighWire for online hosting

["Kristen Boyton" <kristen.boyton@rsm.ac.uk>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Royal Society of Medicine Press choose HighWire for online hosting

The Royal Society of Medicine Press and Stanford University's 
HighWire Press are delighted to announce their new partnership 
for online journals publishing. Content from all 16 of the RSM 
Press journals will be live on HighWire's premier ePublishing 
platform by early May 2008, as RSM Press expands its HighWire 
presence.

"HighWire's reputation is excellent, and they host an unrivalled 
selection of the world's leading medical journals. In addition, 
their platform provides the flexibility and stability required 
for ePublishing in the current climate," says Peter Richardson, 
the Managing Director of RSM Press. "We have been working with 
the HighWire team for many years on the Journal of the Royal 
Society of Medicine, and they were the natural choice when we 
decided to consolidate our online journals onto a single 
platform."

A key benefit of the new HighWire partnership is easier access to 
the RSM Press eJournals Collection, which offers institutions the 
opportunity to subscribe to all RSM Press journals at a special 
collection rate. Covering a wide range of topics from sexual 
health to tropical medicine, and from telemedicine to health 
policy, the RSM Press eJournals Collection is part of a range of 
new purchasing and licensing options available from RSM Press.

"We see many ways in which HighWire can help RSM Press with their 
goals to promote their prestigious branding," said John Sack, 
Director of HighWire Press. "HighWire's new platform, H2O, will 
provide them with the technical expertise and flexibility to 
layer new services on to their online presence into the future."

Included on the new RSM platform are two journals which have 
never been online before: Journal of Integrated Care Pathways and 
Journal of Medical Biography. Each journal will be available with 
three years of back content from launch, and access will be free 
to existing print subscribers and eJournals Collection customers.

As an adjunct to the move, RSM Press have signed up to both 
LOCKSS and Portico, to preserve their digital content for future 
generations.

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About RSM Press

Established over 200 years ago, the Royal Society of Medicine 
(RSM) is an independent, non-political organization whose mission 
is to promote and exchange views on medical, educational and 
other health care issues and to provide a broad range of 
education for qualified doctors and healthcare workers. The RSM 
has a worldwide multidisciplinary membership that currently 
exceeds 20,000, including a substantial number of overseas 
members.

RSM Press, a wholly owned trading subsidiary of the RSM, is the 
publishing arm of the RSM and publishes books, journals and 
online services. The organisation has grown significantly in 
recent years, and further growth is planned for the future.

The 16 journals published by RSM Press cover a wide variety of 
subjects in the medical field, from biochemistry to ethics and 
from biography to telemedicine. In addition to publishing their 
own journals, RSM Press also provide publishing services to an 
increasing number of medical societies and organisations, such as 
the Medical Screening Society, the Association for Clinical 
Biochemistry and the British Menopause Society.

More information can be found at www.rsmjournals.com.

Contact: Kristen Boyton, Journals Sales Manager
(kristen.boyton@rsm.ac.uk)
or Natasha Cohen, Senior Journals Development Editor
(natasha.cohen@rsm.ac.uk)

About HighWire Press

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.

More information can be found at http://highwire.stanford.edu.

Contact: Bonnie Zavon, Public Relations (bzavon@stanford.edu)