HighWire Press Innovation by

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HighWire PressInnovation by with scholars

• Michael A. Keller
• Stanford University Libraries
• http//highwire.stanford.edu

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What is HighWire Press?

• A dept of the Stanford University Libraries
• A service to scholarly societies responsible
  publishers
• A community of publishers
• An enterprise (it is self-supporting)
• Not an aggregator
• Not a serials jobber
• Not free, publishers charged fees for services
• Not going to be sold, soon or ever

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What is the mission ofHighWire Press?

• Engage advanced network other I.T. to enhance
  scholarly communication
• -- innovate constantly on the basis of
• -- publishers editors desires
• -- feedback from readers
• Contribute to marketplace correction by improving
  the competitive posture of scholarly societies
  and other responsible publishers
• -- lifting the performance bars high
• -- attracting authors readers to scholarly
  societies

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Content -highly cited, frequently read

• Publishers/societies 65
• Titles/sites 211
• 40 of top 100 of most cited journals
• 20 of top 500 of most cited journals
• 52 of HW in top 500 most cited journals
• Full text articles 295,000, of which
• Free full text articles 172,000
• Total content (articles/abstracts) 743,000
• per month growth in 1999
• Distinct hosts 3 million 73
• Data delivered over a terabyte 126

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Content Representative Journals

• Science Magazine
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Journal of Biological Chemistry
• British Medical Journal
• EMBO Journal EMBO Reports
• Journal of Neuroscience
• American Journal of Physiology (all sections)
• Annual Review (all sections)
• Health Promotion International

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Content - available as published

• No delay of content for institutional readers
• Publication is becoming faster
• Ever shortening time between author submission
  publication
• Manuscript acceptance publication are becoming
  simultaneous events
• The issue is becoming a relic
• Private overnet to Brazil ( 24 other nations)

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Articles become free
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Content multimedia with purposes

• 2000 articles have data supplements (.01)
• Movies 26
• Documents 6
• Images 60
• Excel  6

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Content easily accessible, even free

• Free back articles
• Publishers 24
• Titles 62
• Articles 172,000 60 of total
• Database grows 7,000 articles/month
• 10,000 to 12,000 pp per week
• Free prepublication articles
• Accepted manuscripts (unedited papers) available
  for free, forever, e.g. JBC Papers In Press

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Content are older articles accessed?

• Use decay users/article/month
• At publication 100
• After 3 months 13
• After 6 months 7 (forever?)
• More readers online they are accessing old
  articles need more full text articles online
• Institutional statistics of use available
• Governments should fund retrospective conversion
  else science will cease before 1995

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Content More is better

• Marketplace competition choice
• Content, content, content
• Highly cited, frequently read
• Back files
• Easily accessible, even free
• Available fast
• Formats follow function, multimedia with purposes
• Services to enhance research, teaching, learning
• Toll free linking among HighWire titles
• Personal alerting functions
• Perpetual access

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Services - links

• 2 million links from bibliographic references
  to full text articles abstracts
• Medline, ISI Web of Science, GenBank, HW jrnls
• 500,000 links to free full text articles

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Services - alerts

• Table of Contents
• current
• future
• Subject and Author
• topic/author match
• article is cited hot link in e-mail message
• Forward citation alert
• New titles
• 1 million alerts to 1/3 million readers
• Growth 100,000 alerts/month
• As of 4.16.00

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Perpetual Access

• STM publishing is a record of scholarship
• Online is superset of the paper
• Paper journals are no longer an archival record
• E-journals are dynamic, have links and services
• Static PDF or SGML archives are not sufficient
• Back files free access are services, not
  archives

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Perpetual Access

• Need many different systems and approaches
• HighWire migrates files (5x, so far!)
• HighWire maintains source and operating file
  tape archive off-site
• LOCKSS Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe
• A software protocol to locally store and manage
  web content
• decentralized, distributed, highly replicated
• easy to use, inexpensive to operate
• Insures web content functionality, integrity,
  access
• http//lockss.stanford.edu
• SUL Dark Cave digital archive in development

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Innovations

• Design/development production site for Oxford
  English Dictionary, 3rd ed
• http//www.oed.com
• Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment
• AAAS content HighWire technology
• A digital library information and information
  services
• First of many http//www.stke.org
• Concept (semantic) searching in development

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http//Highwire.stanford.edu

• Contacts
• vreich_at_stanford.edu
• bzavon_at_stanford.edu

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More about lockssif questions arise

• Provides simple web cache that
• never gets flushed
• holds authorized content
• The cache
• pre-fetches content as published
• continuously validates against other caches
• repairs gaps from publisher and other caches
• Persistence via redundancy
• not via media archiving
• Cheap hardware free open source software