25 years of shaping the future

Together with our publishers, we have shaped what journals look like today. Together, we will shape what journals look like tomorrow.

Connecting the best minds to the most people

With technology and expertise always advancing in perfect poise, HighWire is the principal digital partner for the global publishing community.

The power behind academic publishing

Whether you’re a society, university press or an independent educational publisher, your content should draw the right attention. That’s why we’ve been helping the brightest minds reach more people since 1995.

HighWire publishes Plan S whitepaper

HighWire has published a whitepaper summarizing views of over 30 leading publishers, on the best options to address Plan S.

About HighWire

Innovation in the service of the scholarly community

Born out of Stanford University, HighWire is a global provider of scholarly publishing solutions. In 1995, we spearheaded the digital publishing revolution, working with Google to digitize and index academic journals. Today, we are powered by MPS, providing the scholarly publishing community with innovative technology and market-leading capabilities.

Our end-to-end services span the entire publishing lifecycle, from manuscript submission and peer review, content hosting and publication, to analytics and reporting. Whether it’s a journal, preprint repository, or books and multimedia you want to share, we help you connect the brightest minds with the most people.

The world of digital publishing may continue to turn, but with HighWire you will always have the latest technology at your fingertips.

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Share your academic journals with the world

We can help you widen your reach and improve engagement, today.

We are the power behind the publishing world

Our clients include some of the most influential scientific journals and publishers in the world.

What Our Customers Say

“When looking for partners to digitise our range of publications, HighWire’s intelligent platform was an easy choice. It gives us the ability to offer up our extensive collection of content instantaneously and with ease, as well as providing us with valuable insight and data to inform our publishing process."

Pascal Schwarzer, VP of Digital Development, Springer Publishing
“Content upload was reduced from 26 hours to 45 minutes, there was a 200% traffic uplift and a 42.24% rise in organic referrals.”

BrillOnline Reference Works & BrillOnline Bibliographies
“Our new design delivers an elegant reader experience, makes it easier to find important content, and has resulted in increased advertising revenue.”

Christian Kohler, Scholarly Publishing, American Diabetes Association
“We needed a fast, reliable and scalable system that would allow for thousands of submissions. It was a natural fit to choose the flexibility of BenchPress as it successfully tackled our business challenges and led to reduced costs and time saved.”

Kevin-John Black, Product Lead for bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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April 16 2020

Adjusting to the new normal: publishing in the time of COVID-19

The scientific community has come together to find new ways of collaborating more rapidly and more widely, working across borders to collate and share knowledge and information. We are posting regular updates on some of the initiatives being carried out by our customers and partners.

Benchpress

BenchPress is configured to your workflows to simplify and streamline the manuscript submissions process, helping you increase efficiency, decrease costs and dramatically reduce time to publication.

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Vizor

Vizor is an award-winning data visualization tool that will give you rapid insight into the reach and impact of your scholarly content, allowing you to uncover trends, meaning and context.

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JCore

JCore was designed by publishers for publishers, offering a modern, intuitive journal-hosting platform that gets your readers what they need in as few clicks as possible.

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Scolaris

Scolaris is our next-generation multi-content hosting platform, integrating books and journals seamlessly with multimedia content, videos, spreadsheets, case studies, news and tutorials.

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Sigma

Sigma is a true authentication system, supporting complex hierarchical relationships amongst publishers and institutions to provide centralized access and identity management to licensed content.

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Ampere

Ampere is a dynamic cloud-based workflow management platform for all content and media product types; that provides operational agility for constantly evolving editorial and production processes in a rapidly changing publishing world.

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