SUMMARY: "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today announced that it will be moving its world-renowned annual series The Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology (CSH Symposia) to the new HighWire electronic publishing platform, H2O. The move will coincide with the launch of the CSH Symposia’s new 70-year online archive. The CSH Symposia have long been signal events in in many fields of modern experimental biology. Now the record of these events will be available for the first time in its entirety on the premier HighWire platform."
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press, the leading online technology provider in scholarly publishing, is proud to announce that it has become a key content partner in Serials Solutions' KnowledgeWorks Certification program. With this partnership, HighWire and Serials Solutions will actively work together to make publishers' content accurate and easy to find so that readers may access the information they need within their library systems."
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Podcast summary:
In this Beyond the Book “extra,” presented in anticipation of the 30th annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing beginning May 28 in Boston, host Christopher Kenneally examines whether current “packaging” trends in the music industry (think iTunes) will make their way into the publishing world.
Taking on the question are executives from two leading solutions providers for book and journal publishers – John Sack, Director and Associate Publisher of HighWire Press, and Joel Bush, director at Near-Time.
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SUMMARY: "In support of expanding global service and publishing tools development, HighWire Press is pleased to announce two key strategic staff additions. Joining the team are Dominic Mitchell, who will establish HighWire’s first full-time European presence in his role as UK-based Journal Manager, and Xenia Prionas Siller, in a Technical Manager role based out of HighWire’s Stanford University offices."
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press, the preeminent online technology provider for over 140 publishers, is proud to announce the release of its new electronic publishing platform, H2O. HighWire has rebuilt its platform from the bottom up, creating a standards-based hosting solution that embraces the new vision of Publishing 2.0. H2O will put HighWire’s publisher partners at the forefront of online publishing."
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) are pleased to announce the public beta of the first journal to be launched on HighWire’s new platform, H2O. The new site, at beta.pnas.org, represents a major re-design of PNAS Online."
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SUMMARY: "SAGE and the Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) division of the Association of American Publishers are pleased to announce that the SAGE Journals Online (SJO) platform has won a 2007 PSP Award for Excellence for best platform in the electronic publication category."
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press and the Royal Society are pleased to announce a new partnership in the provision of the independent scientific academy’s publications online. All content of the Society’s eight periodicals, some dating back as early as 1665, will be live on HighWire’s premier ePublishing platform beginning in 2009 as the Royal Society joins HighWire’s respected community of scholarly publishers."
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SUMMARY: "PubMed and HighWire Press are both useful medical literature search engines available for free to anyone on the internet... We found that using HighWire Press resulted in a higher likelihood of retrieving the desired article and higher number of search results than the same search on PubMed."
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press celebrates a milestone today with the launch of its 1000th journal site, the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society."
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SUMMARY: "The announcment of an initiative that will see the various parties in the journal supply chaing (publishers, subscription agents and libarians) joining forces to explore the creation, prototype implementation and value of a common institutional identifier that can be used throughout the entire industry, from purchaser to end user."
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press was named in the Fifth Annual EContent 100 List, 2005 for
Companies that matter most in Digital Content as a winner in the category: Fee based Information Services"
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press has a new look. In September 2005, Stanford University released a new edition of its popular Web-based medical literature search engine. HighWire Press claims that it "hosts the largest repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed content" and is without pop-ups or advertising."
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Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science, October 12, 2005
SUMMARY: The 1,000,000th scientific article is made free to the public on HighWire Press. "The 68 clinical, scientific and scholarly publishers that constitute the DC Principles for Free Access to Science Coalition today applauded the announcement by Stanford University’s HighWire Press that its one millionth free article has been made available online to the public."
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Stanford University News Service, 11 October, 2005
SUMMARY: "On Oct. 6, the millionth scholarly journal article was made freely available to users worldwide by publishers hosted by HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources."
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SUMMARY: The Kaufman-Wills Group, with sponsorship of the ALPSP, HighWire Press, and AAAS Project on Science and Intellectual Property in the Public Interest, has produced a research study of the financial and non-financial effects of alternative business models on scholarly journals. Both an overview and the complete 128 page
report can be found on the ALPSP site:
Overview from report [PDF] Complete report [PDF]
More information and a press release: Press Release [PDF]
The report is free online. Details about ordering a print version can be found at http://www.alpsp.org/publications/pub11.htm
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SUMMARY: "The new e-Duke
Scholarly Collection will replace the interim electronic journals package that was offered in the summer of 2004 to the libraries that had formerly accessed Duke’s humanities and social sciences journals via Project Muse."
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Gale - Free Resources - Péter Jacsó Reference Shelf, June 2005
SUMMARY: "The new edition of the brainy software from the best digital facilitator brings out the best of the high quality, genuinely scholarly content of more than 850 science and social science journals from nearly 200 publishers. More than 1.8 million abstracts and more than half of the 1.6 million full-text articles are freely available to any user. HighWire Press shows an awesome fusion of quality and quantity, enhanced by links to citing articles from within the HighWire archive. Maybe it should be called HighWire Scholar."
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ABSTRACT: "Recent developments in the publication of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) are discussed, particularly the development of the electronic version of the Journal, JBC Online, and the opportunities and challenges that this mode of publication has presented to its publisher, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) and its mission of service."
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ABSTRACT: "The emergence of e–journals brought a great change in scholarly communication and in the behavior of scholars. However, the importance of scholars’ behavior in the pricing of scientific journal has been largely ignored in the recent debate between libraries and publishers over site license practices and pricing schemes. Stanford’s survey results indicate that sharply increasing costs are the main reason for individual subscription cancellation, driving users to rely on library or other institutional subscriptions. Libraries continue to be a vital information provider in the electronic era and their bargaining power in the market and the importance of roles in scholarly communication will be increased by branding and a strong relationship with users. Publishers’ strategy for thriving in the electronic era is not to lose personal subscribers. Cooperation among the three sectors — scholars, libraries, and publishers — promises optimal results for each sector more than ever."
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SUMMARY: "Beyond navigation of search results, some visualization tools provide a high-level topical overview of an entire information resource, such as HighWire Press's Topic Map, which displays more than 54,000 subjects and their hierarchical subheadings. It offers a way to bridge the search/browse dichotomy by supporting "browse-initiated querying" as well as "query-directed browsing." This type of guided browsing provides opportunities for the serendipity that is often lacking in search."
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SUMMARY: "While government agencies, academics, and publishers debate over whether or not publicly funded research results should be freely available, Stanford University’s HighWire Press has been doing its part in taking responsibility for the Open Archive. Participating HighWire-hosted publishers have been steadily growing the world’s largest collection of open access, high-impact scholarly research online - more than 780,000 free peer-reviewed, full-text articles are available at www.highwire.org"
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Library Journal Academic Newswire (TM), November 11, 2004
SUMMARY: "Keynote speaker Michael Keller, and HighWire's Associate Director, Richard Newman, spoke out about recent issues in the serials crisis, at the 2004 annual Charleston Conference."
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SUMMARY: "Oxford Journals, a Division of Oxford University Press (OUP) announced today that it had signed an agreement for Stanford University's HighWire Press to host its entire journals collection, beginning January 2005. Through this partnership OUP and HighWire aim to develop a leading online environment in academic publishing."
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SUMMARY: "No matter how you slice it", says Michael A. Keller, Stanford University Librarian and Publisher of HighWire Press, "there is an urgent, dramatic, critical struggle under way, between the needs of the academy and the dynamics of leveraged greed which controls scholarly publishing."
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SUMMARY: "Academic librarians across the country have long complained that the bundled subscription packages from large scholarly publishers and database aggregators force them to subscribe to journals they don't want to get good prices on ones they do. (See Paula Hane's NewsBreak, "Cornell and Other University Libraries to Cancel Elsevier Titles" .) Smaller publishers, such as those from scholarly societies, have often suffered as library budgets are absorbed by payments to large publishers. Now HighWire Press, the librarian-led journal aggregator from Stanford University, has launched a new subscription program called Shop for Journals. Initiated by a group of scholarly society publishers participating in HighWire, the new pricing/subscription model offers an alternative to the "Big Deal" packages and allows librarians to create their own packages using tiered pricing tied to library type."
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SUMMARY: "Stanford University's HighWire Press announced the launch of a new feature for institutions, 'Shop for Journals'. 25 society publishers, with content hosted on HighWire, have banded together to create an easy way to select from an initial list of 57 journal titles and create custom packages, with more titles expected to join in the New Year. In addition, these publishers have developed a standard set of Guidelines for Institutional Access (defining authorized use and users), and have agreed to use a common tiered pricing model, based on type of institution: http://highwire.stanford.edu/shopforjournals"
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ABSTRACT: "While it is typical for electronic journals to offer conventional search features similar to those provided by electronic databases, a select number of e-journals have also made available higher-level access options as well. In this article, we review several novel technologies and implementations that creatively exploit the inherent potential of the digital environment to further facilitate use of e-collections." (Article pages 97-107 offer a detailed review of the high level search functions available in the HighWire Press portal.)
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EXCERPT: "Digital facilitators assist publishers in digitizing their publications for the Web. They may offer additional services, such as hosting the publishers' digital journal editions, conference proceedings, and monographs. Such hosting also implies the authentication of customers to determine what services they qualify for depending on whether they are casual or registered visitors, or subscribers. There are a number of digital facilitators, but four of them stand out from the crowd: Stanford University Library's HighWire Press.... HighWire Press has by far the best hyperlinking capabilities, including links to not only many documents cited by the article being read, but also from many documents citing the article being read."
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SUMMARY: "HighWire Press has launched a newly designed Web site (http://highwire.stanford.edu) that offers seamless, full-text access to nearly 300 highly cited journals, plus simultaneous, searchable access to all of MEDLINE. Researchers now have faster, better, and more comprehensive access to online scientific, medical, and social sciences information. The site's search capabilities are freely available to all. ASPET's five journals are published online through Stanford University's HighWire Press, the world's largest archive of free, peer-reviewed, full-text life sciences research with over 380,000 free full-text articles. The new HighWire site allows researchers to be more productive and efficient in finding just the information they need. The site provides 12 powerful new search features, advanced browsing capabilities, linguistic processing, and a 4-color graphical TopicMap, which gives the researcher a sense of context while navigating HighWire's new peer-reviewed taxonomy in a tree-structured topical-database browser. Users of the site will have seamless access to both free and paid content and simplified management of content alerts."
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SUMMARY: "ASBMB's Journal of Biological Chemistry and Stanford University's HighWire Press have joined together to create a single Portal for access to biomed-ical research literature. The new portal includes all Medline content, plus all full text for the three hundred journals HighWire produces online, such as Science and PNAS."
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The Physiologist, Volume 45, Number 1, February 2002, page 3
SUMMARY: "On January 11th, HighWire Press, the producer of APS' online journal sites, announced the launch of a new and better mousetrap for the scientific community. Named the HighWire Library of the Sciences and Medicine [from http://highwire.stanford.edu, click on the link to "Try the beta version"], the site is designed to address one of the major concerns of the proponents of E-Biomed and the Public Library of Science (http://www.public-libraryofscience.org). That is, the creation of a single site for digital scientific content deposition will provide enhanced searchability for all of Medline, plus the full text of 300 science journals."
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SUMMARY: "Stanford University Libraries has released two new resources as part of its LOCKSS digital preservation project . One of them is a demo of the user interface to be used by libraries participating in the LOCKSS system. The other is an interactive online world map showing the status of the 60 test caches at 46 libraries worldwide. LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe), provides a strategy for long-term preservation by systematically caching content in a self-correcting P2P network."
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Science, Volume 295, Number 5552, Issue of 4 Jan 2002, p. 13.
EXCERPT: "We made the decision last year, as a service to the scientific community, to release the full content of our Reports and Research Articles after 12 months on Science Online. HighWire Press, producer of Science Online and about 300 other journals, now has the world's largest archive of free, peer-reviewed, full-text biomedical articles--over 350,000 of them. This entire set can be browsed and searched by topical area, by keyword, or by using a new taxonomy we helped develop. You can also arrange to receive alerts and coach the search engine about your favorite journals. The new portal, the HighWire Library of Science and Medicine, comes to life on January 11; see it right now at http://highwire.stanford.edu. Click."
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SUMMARY: "Stanford University's HighWire Press, host to the world's most influential online journal content, today announced the public beta of its newly redesigned Web site. The new HighWire site offers seamless, full-text access to nearly 300 highly cited journals, plus simultaneous, searchable access to all of MEDLINE. Researchers now have faster, better and more comprehensive access to online scientific, medical and social sciences information. HighWire Press is the world's largest archive of free, peer-reviewed, full-text life sciences research with over 350,000 free full-text articles."
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Stanford University News Service, November 7, 2001
SUMMARY: "HighWire Press recently welcomed the 100th scientific journal that provides free back issues online and uploaded the 330,000th free article.
Those figures make HighWire -- a Stanford University Libraries program that hosts the online editions of leading scientific journals -- the world's largest database of free life science articles and second in size only to NASA among free scientific article databases." [Note that now HighWire Press hosts the largest such archive.]
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SUMMARY: "Data Conversion Laboratory worked with HighWire Press, a leading online publisher with over 225 science, technical and medical journals, bring scholarly publishing to the Internet. How DCL's conversion technology and partnering assisted HighWire convert a mountain of data to SGML each month is outlined in this case study."
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SUMMARY: "bmj.com was hailed Best Business Product or Service by the publishing industry at the Interactive Publishing Awards ceremony, hosted by the Periodical Publishers Association (PPA) in London last night. The awards aim to reward excellence in the online publishing sector and to showcase the best websites in the industry."
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SUMMARY: "Sun Microsystems Laboratories and Stanford University are testing a new, real-world approach to preserving access to scientific, technical, and medical journals. It promises to help libraries better exploit Web technologies. In the bargain, it may make good on another promise: using information technology to reduce the flow of paper worldwide.
Using Java[tm] and Linux technologies, Stanford Library and Sun Microsystems Laboratories researchers have adapted a centuries-old model for circulating paper to create one that reduces our reliance on it."
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SUMMARY: "David S. H. Rosenthal of Sun Microsystems presented work conducted with Vicky Reich of Stanford University Laboratories, entitled "Permanent Web Publishing." The talk was presented at the USENIX Annual Technical Conference in San Diego on 22 June 2000, and the paper appears in the conference proceedings."
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ABSTRACT: "Ariadne has already described the long-term task of revising the Oxford English Dictionary and reviewed OED Online at its launch in March this year, but the editor judged, rightly, that there must be a hidden story on the making of the web site. This article sets out to tell that story, describing what was technically involved in turning a twenty-three volume print work into an online publication, and recording how this generation of publishers benefited from visionary groundwork undertaken fifteen years ago which meant that the hardest part of going online - preparing the content - was three-quarters done before they'd heard of the Web."
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EXCERPT: "In yet another major step forward in the provision of free scholarship online, Stanford University's HighWire Press (last reviewed in the February 16, 2000 Scout Report) has announced that publishers of the science, technology, and medicine journals it hosts now provide free online access to the full text of more than 137,000 articles."
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EXCERPT: [Referring to HighWire Press' archive of, at the time, over 137,000 free full-text articles online making us the second largest scientific archive on Earth. Note that now Highwire hosts the largest such archive.]
"It already dwarfs the nascent PubMed Central (PMC) initiative that has been set up by the US National Institutes of Health -- whose goal is to create a free global website for the entire life sciences literature (see Nature 401, 6; 1999, Nature 401, 626 ; 1999).
'PMC went live last month, but has so far attracted only a handful of publishers, many of whose back issues are also available from HighWire, such as Molecular Biology of the Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)....
David Lipman, director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the NIH and one of the main architects of PMC, puts a brave face on this situation.
The HighWire initiative is 'a great thing', he says. 'It shows in principle that journals are willing to make back content free and therefore should be willing to take part in PMC.
'Our goal is to provide free access for all life sciences. HighWire can only do it for journals that are paying them.'
But some editors are already questioning the need for PMC. Ira Mellman, editor-in-chief of The Journal of Cell Biology, which is making its back issues free on HighWire after 18 months, says: 'Allowing journals and publishers to select their own host sites makes more sense than trying to enforce a common solution on all.'
EXCERPT: "Stanford University's HighWire Press announced Thursday that publishers of the journals it hosts now provide free online access to the full text of more than 137,000 articles. As a result, HighWire Press is now home to the second-largest free full-text science archive in the world - and the largest in the life sciences - with three entirely free journals, 51 journals offering free back issues and 32 offering free trial access." [Note that now HighWire Press hosts the largest such archive.]
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EXCERPT: "Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press believes that it has solved the problem of long term archiving of electronic journals, thus removing one of the main reasons for librarians' reluctance to embrace the new medium. HighWire Press hosts 170 journals on the world wide web, including the BMJ and a dozen of the BMJ Publishing Group's specialist journals."
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Stanford University News Service, February 4, 2000
EXCERPT: "The Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press announced today that it has devised a comprehensive plan for preserving and assuring access to the more than 170 scholarly journals it hosts on the web. The plan addresses complex archival problems that can cause libraries and other consumers to be hesitant about subscribing to online academic journals."
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ABSTRACT: "The Internet revolution is injecting more competition into publishing and giving power back to scientists and learned societies. It presents new challenges to the guardians of the archives and could yet spell the end for many print titles."
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SUMMARY: "'Medical Software Reviews' -- a newsletter on healthcare computing topics -- in its August 1999 issue reviewed the online journal implementations of BMJ, Circulation, JACC, JAMA, The Lancet, and The NEJM. The first two of these are produced by HighWire for the publishers, and scored higher than all the others in the reviewer's ratings, including a perfect score for 'Ease of use for online viewing' and the highest score for 'Overall Internet Implementation'. The BMJ and Circulation each scored 30 points in the detailed ratings, while the others scored 20, 21, 24 and 23 points respectively. The Ovid implementation of JAMA was reviewed, which scored 21 points."
EXCERPT: "The Institute for Scientific Information® (ISI*) today announced a collaboration to build hypertext links between the electronic resources provided by ISI and by Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press. Part of the ISI Links initiative, the collaboration provides the technology to permit users to navigate from the ISI Web of ScienceSM, a multidisciplinary bibliographic database tool, to participating HighWire publishers' full text journal content. The HighWire-produced journals include more than 100 life science and biomedical titles published by a core group of prestigious professional and scholarly societies. Among those titles are the widely known publications Science and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."
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EXCERPT: "Leading academic publisher Oxford University Press (OUP) is transferring responsibility for the production and hosting of its growing corpus of online journals to HighWire Press, the electronic imprint of Stanford University Libraries."
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EXCERPT: "Following the news in the August Quarterly that the three SGM journals were to go on-line with HighWire Press of Stanford, California, there has been intense activity on both sides of the Atlantic. In collaboration with Dr Rod Mulvey, Electronic Products Director and colleagues at our printers Cambridge University Press, work has been going on to demarcate responsibilities, agree on file structure and naming conventions, timings, transfer methods, features required ... no-one ever thought it would be easy!"
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EXCERPT: "Scientists, scientific editors and publishers, scholarly society officers, and an enterprise unit of the Stanford University Libraries named HighWire Press have worked together over the past three and a half years to publish Internet editions of 70 influential scientific journals. Three significant accomplishments have resulted. First, there has evolved a mode of scholarly communication which serves readers, and facilitates research as much as it supports the clarity and validity of scientific discourse; this model has become a standard in Internet scholarly publishing. Second, an active community of scholarly editors and publishers has intensified the benefits of online scholarly publishing to the scientific, medical and technical communities at large. Third, the products of life sciences research in the advanced economies of Europe and North America are now more widely available than ever before, stimulating scientific and other cultural developments in other parts of the world."
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EXCERPT: "Oxford University Press has always been quick to take up the challenge of the information technology revolution. The company printed its first book in 1478, only 2 years after Caxton's first printing press was set up. Now, some 500 years later, OUP is once again at the leading edge of a new publishing medium - the electronic journal."
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EXCERPT: "An in-depth interview with Michael A. Keller (University Librarian; Director of Academic Information Resources; Publisher of HighWire Press at Stanford) follows in which he provides insightful, thought-provoking answers to questions involving his role and HighWire's mission, as well as its uniqueness, impact on the market, customer base, competition, partners, and the future."
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HMS Beagle, September 5, 1997 (Free registration required)
EXCERPT: "In only six months, Science Online has signed up more paying subscribers (18,000 and counting) than most print journals have garnered after decades of effort. And yet I continue to encounter scores of scientists who have yet to visit our site - or have visited us merely to download a particular paper. What they don't know is that Science (and many of the other high-impact life science journals) are now mounting an array of online services that many scholars have only dreamed of."
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EXCERPT: "HighWire Press may be a solution to the time-honored problem faced by libraries and other information centers of high subscription rates of science, technical, and medical (STM) journals. HighWire's mission is to 'provid(e) a more direct linkage between the writers and readers of scholarly materials...to affect the economics of provision of scholarly information...[and] to build new technological, economic and programmatic partnerships' with other interested parties. Add to this the hope to 'ensure that the nascent marketplace...does not develop along the semi-monopolistic lines of current STM publishing' and you've got good use of server space."
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Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, Summer 1997
EXCERPT: "Three years ago, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) was searching for alternatives for delivery of the society's journal, the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC). With over 30,000 pages per year and steady growth, the journal was outgrowing its printed format. A CD-ROM version had been introduced but had not been successful, in part because JBC is simply too large for CD-ROM. Robert Simoni, an editor of JBC, discussed the problem with Michael Keller, the Director of Stanford University Libraries, and after negotiations with ASBMB, the Stanford University Libraries enthusiastically agreed to take on development of the web version of JBC. The HighWire Press team, a unit within Stanford University Libraries, was appointed in early 1995. The first web version of JBC was released in May of that year."
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EXCERPT: "One man's dream of the island life coupled with the Hawaiian pipeline - of high-fiber telecom, that is - is making it possible for companies firmly rooted on the US mainland to speed Internet deliveries to their international customers. By detouring traffic away from the overcrowded US public Internet and onto a private network based in Honolulu, Digital Island is shortening the route data travels, and therefore the minutes spent downloading information and software from its clients' sites.
Stanford University's HighWire Press, which publishes searchable electronic editions of leading science journals, on Tuesday became the latest bit-heavy content provider to sign on to Digital Island's private network. Some of the site's files, weighing in at 1.5 mgbs, used to take as long as 10 minutes to download, but those times should improve by an average 160 percent on the Digital Island network, according to a study conducted by HighWire. "
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HMS Beagle, March 21, 1997 (Free registration required)
ABSTRACT: "HighWire Press, a tiny division of Stanford University Library, is the biggest open secret to getting scientific journals on the Web. Staffed by visionaries often juggling other jobs, HighWire has enabled journals to reach the on-line market and consider reshaping their print content. Whether HighWire's work even profits its clients is discounted by all parties, for now."
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Stanford University News Service, November 20,1996
EXCERPT: "Biology Professor Robert Simoni has set himself a test: He wants to write a scientific review article without going to the library to look up papers or references. Two years ago, that would have been unthinkable. But now it's just a matter of time, due in large part to the efforts of HighWire Press, a fledgling division of Stanford Libraries that is a key player in shifting distribution of scientific ideas from printed journals to online publications."
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EXCERPT: "The world of science and technology changes rapidly, even daily. Contrast this with the lead-time required to publish a journal or magazine in print. It immediately becomes apparent that information can become outdated even before it appears on the newsstand.
Now consider the difficulty a reader might have in searching for articles with a particular focus. This can be a time-consuming process when the reader has only spools of microfilm at his disposal.
And think about the expense of printed journals; many libraries are finding it increasingly difficult to acquire publications because of their rising cost.
When these problems became apparent, staff members at Stanford University Libraries/Academic Information Resources were prompted to develop Stanford's Network Publishing project, known as HighWire Press"
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Science, February 9, 1996 (Free registration required)
EXCERPT: "The on-line journals that publishers are launching by the hundreds are transforming science communication by turning journals into perpetual electronic seminars and weaving them into a single interconnected database. This two-part report also examines a trend that may threaten established publishers: the rise of free, on-line preprint archives and efforts to transform them into low-cost, fully refereed journals. The full text also provides hot-links to relevant sites."
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