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Subject:
Portland Press Ltd to move to the HighWire Open Platform |
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From:
Alastair Stewart <Alastair.Stewart@biochemistry.org> |
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Date:
4/7/2014 9:59 AM |
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To:
"'SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU'"
<SERIALST@list.uvm.edu> |
For immediate
release
London, UK &
Stanford, CA USA | 7 April 2014 - Portland Press Limited has
signed an agreement to move its sector-leading journals,
including the Biochemical Journal, Clinical Science
and Bioscience Reports, to the HighWire Open
Platform.
The new journal
sites will see more than 10,000 pages of research published
annually and a catalogue of papers dating back 100 years hosted
on HighWire by mid-2015.
“After careful
analysis, HighWire was identified as the best platform to take
our journals forward,” says Kate Baillie, Managing Director of
Portland Press Ltd and Chief Executive of the Biochemical
Society, the not-for-profit owner of Portland Press Ltd.
“HighWire is at
the forefront of digital scholarly publishing, with many leading
journals in the life sciences relying on its community-based
strengths and its track record for innovation and technological
support. Our new sites will benefit from this support and will
allow us to deliver a modern platform for our readers, authors
and subscribers.
“For our readers
it will be easier to find, read, share and explore our
authoritative catalogue of papers, while authors that publish
with us will benefit from greater discoverability of their
work.”
Some of the
benefits the HighWire Open Platform will provide include:
· A flexible
publishing platform designed to adapt to the latest advances in
online publishing.
· Support of
key industry standards, such as
CrossMark, FundRef, COUNTER and ORCID.
· Improved
article discoverability and
integration with services such as Google Scholar, PubMed and
Web of Science.
· Inter-journal linking that will allow
subscribers access to cited references and sources from other
HighWire-hosted journal articles.
“Since the Biochemical Journal began
over 100 years ago, Portland Press Ltd’s publications have
gone from strength-to-strength while adapting to technology
changes,” notes Tom Rump, Managing Director of
HighWire. “Moving their online content to HighWire is a natural
evolution for the company, taking advantage of our cutting-edge
technology in a fast-changing world.”
The agreement
will see all journals published by Portland Press Ltd move to
HighWire by mid-2015, including the Biochemical Journal,
Biochemical Society Transactions, Bioscience Reports and
Clinical Science.
Ms Baillie says
the agreement will also benefit clients of Portland Customer
Services, a division of Portland Press Ltd. Under the agreement,
Portland Customer Services can provide its clients hosting
services, as part of the range of membership, fulfilment and
support services they offer to learned societies, professional
associations and the publishing industry.
“With our
publishing expertise and HighWire’s feature-rich platform, this
agreement will allow us to deliver even better journal services
to learned societies and publishers. The surplus from the sale
of our publications and services are returned to the global
scientific community via the activity of the Biochemical
Society,” says Ms Baillie.
ENDS
Registered Office: Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street, London,
WC1N 2JU.
VAT registration number GB 523 2392 69
Charles Darwin House, 12 Roger Street, London, WC1N 2JU|
Subject:
University of California Press to partner with HighWire |
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From:
Sara Killingworth <sara@maverick-os.com> |
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Date:
4/10/2014 11:01 AM |
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To:
<SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU> |
- Apologise for cross-posting - Contact: Rebekah Darksmith Email: rdarksmith@ucpress.edu Tel: 510-883-8307 University of California Press to partner with HighWire OAKLAND, Calif. April 10, 2014‐University of California Press (UC Press) is pleased to announce that beginning in mid-2015 its journal content will be hosted on the HighWire Open Platform from Stanford University’s HighWire Press. Speaking of the move, UC Press Director Alison Mudditt commented, “As the ways in which students and researchers consume information evolve, UC Press felt it critical to seek a long-term hosting partnership that will allow us to take full advantage of new avenues to make scholarly work accessible and relevant in an increasingly dynamic digital space of our own. We believe that our collaboration with HighWire will support us in this.” The flexible HighWire Open Platform technology infrastructure is increasingly becoming the platform of choice for social sciences and humanities publishers. HighWire’s collaborative environment and evidence-based product development process provide unique opportunities for its publishing partners to share and learn from each others’ experiences. As Mudditt further commented, “Our partnership with HighWire will enable us to deliver new and innovative products and services essential to our publishing strategy. HighWire’s capabilities in social media, community-based services, and alternative metrics will allow UC Press to develop new ways of sharing and delivering content to our user communities.” HighWire’s Managing Director Tom Rump said of the partnership, “UC Press and HighWire share an alliance as we are both born out of prestigious universities, are known for excellence in our respective fields, and are based in California. UC Press’s decision to move their content to the HighWire Open Platform validates our long established reputation for pioneering the latest technological solutions for market leading publishers.” UC Press content is currently part of the Current Scholarship Collection at JSTOR. While UC Press will no longer include its current journal issues in this collection, its content will still be available on, and form part of, the JSTOR archive collections. The new UC Press HighWire platform will go live in mid-2015, but its current journal content will continue to be hosted on JSTOR throughout 2015 to facilitate a smooth transition for library customers. JSTOR will also continue to handle renewals for 2015. Rebekah Darksmith, Marketing & Sales Director and Assistant Director of UC Press notes, “The move to HighWire means UC Press can more rapidly develop and bring to market the new and innovative publishing programs and initiatives that our users want through our own site. We are very much looking forward to this exciting phase of our journey.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- About University of California Press University of California Press is one of the most forward-thinking scholarly publishers in the nation. For more than 100 years, it has championed work that influences public discourse and challenges the status quo in multiple fields of study. At a time of dramatic change for publishing and scholarship, we collaborate with scholars, librarians, authors, and students to stay ahead of today’s knowledge demands and shape the future of publishing. Each year, UC Press publishes approximately 175 new books and 33 multi-issue journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. www.ucpress.edu | Twitter: @ucpress About HighWire HighWire Press provides innovative technology solutions to influential societies, university presses, and independent publishers through its ground-breaking HighWire Open Platform. Long affiliated with Stanford University, HighWire offers digital content development and hosting services, a customizable peer-review manuscript submission system, cross-publisher librarian tools, strategic consultation, and unique networking opportunities for organizations which produce high-impact journals, books, and other scholarly publications. highwire.stanford.edu | Twitter: @highwirepress Sara Killingworth Senior Associate Maverick Publishing Specialists Ltd email: sara@maverick-os.com Mobile: 07776 150601 www.maverick-os.com <http://www.maverick-os.com/> http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/sara-killingworth/14/b57/25 Skype: sara.killingworth Twitter: @maverickmavlets Registered office: 40 West Street, Corfe Castle, Dorset, UK, BH20 5HD