Over 75 years of combined experience in shaping the Scholarly and STM industry.

Founded in 1995 by Stanford University, HighWire has served as the leaders in the industry since our beginning. Our technology, which remains at the forefront of digital knowledge management, provides our customers with market-leading capabilities.

HighWire,Powered by MPS

HighWire Press is a leading provider of digital publishing tools and platform solutions, across all aspects of the publishing lifecycle, including content management and hosting, e-commerce, access and identity management, manuscript submission and tracking, and analytics. Since our inception at Stanford University in the early days of the web, HighWire has remained an innovative leader, focused on the creation, production, and sharing of knowledge. We are now powered by MPS Limited, a global partner to the world’s leading publishers of scholarly and eLearning content and corporates. This combination of deep domain expertise makes HighWire the technology partner of choice for global commercial, society and academic publishers.

Our Mission

Innovation in the Service of the Scholarly Community.

HighWire has thrived largely as a result of its proven modular and scalable technology. HighWire is at the forefront of digital knowledge management, providing our customers with market leading solutions.

Our Solutions

Innovation in the Service of the Scholarly Community.

Our expertise in the service of knowledge. From peer review to putting content out into the world, we give publishers the tools to connect the best minds to the most people.

News and Events

Innovation in the Service of the Scholarly Community.

HighWire continues to support organizations that encourage knowledge sharing and best practices, bringing the community together to improve engagement, impact, and revenue.

Our Partners

Our Journey

From industry pioneer to supporting publishers for the future.

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Acquired by MPS Limited strategically positioned for new innovation and growth while extending resource capacity. bioRxiv passes its 100,000th preprint while medRxiv shows exponential growth.

Further helped revolutionize scholarly publishing with the launch of medRxiv, a sister preprint server to bioRxiv. Both preprint servers played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Launched Scolaris, our next-generation multi-content platform.

Launched Sigma for identity and access management. Launched integrated eCommerce functionality.
Led initiatives to pioneer CASA and MECA, letting users access research seamlessly off campus and defining a common standard for manuscript transfer.
Moved headquarters to Los Gotos, CA.

Launched Usage Vizor. Launched ‘Direct publishing’ capacity to support real-time news publishing.
Launched Impact Vizor.
Acquired Semantico, expanding operation with two new offices in the UK (Brighton and Belfast), extending operation capacity and operational hours.

Launched custom Collection Toolkit.

Private equity investment from AKKR.

HighWire technology used to launch the groundbreaking preprint server bioRxiv, the preprint server for life sciences.

First to integrate with Google Scholar, working with them to develop the tag set still used by publishers today.

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