The European Respiratory Society Launches its Integrated Content Platform on HighWire Hosting

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The European Respiratory Society Launches its Integrated Content Platform on HighWire Hosting

HighWire Press, a leading provider of digital publishing tools and platform solutions, is excited to announce the successful launch of the European Respiratory Society’s (ERS) new platform on HighWire Hosting. This strategic upgrade enhances discoverability and engagement, providing a dynamic new interface for all content types on one site.

HighWire Press, the leading provider of publishing solutions to the scholarly community, is proud to announce the launch of ERS’s publications portfolio, https://publications.ersnet.org/, on HighWire’s highly configurable hosting platform. Users can now access ERS’s journals, books, podcasts and meeting abstracts all in one place, meeting the Society’s need to increase accessibility and user engagement.

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A comprehensive discovery process ensured that the needs of ERS’s stakeholders and users were fully understood, leading to a rich feature set tailored around precise use cases.

Key features of the HighWire platform were configured for ERS, including:

Enhanced User Experience: Each content type has its own design template, developed iteratively in collaboration with ERS staff.
Custom Collections: Allows the publisher to create new pages containing custom groups of content
Fully CMS-Controlled Home Page: Publisher can instantly update key pages any time
Dedicated Podcasts Page: Access audio content and download MP3s
Advanced Search Filters: Specific content searches covering plain language summaries, conference abstracts, graphical abstracts, and podcasts
Access to Conference Abstracts: Stay updated with the latest findings
Multiple Citation Formats: Support for articles and books
Integrations: Includes Altmetrics, PubMed and TrendMD
Most Read and Related Articles: Encourage onward journeys
Topic Taxonomies: Organized content for related subjects
Supplemental Issues: Additional resources to enhance knowledge
SSO and Custom Login Scenarios: Robust solutions covering content licensing models, including self-service content grouping
eCommerce: business models to allow content monetisation.

Elin Reeves, Director of Publications at ERS, stated, “The ERS’s journals and books are essential resources for the respiratory community and we are delighted with the transition to our new platform, which will offer an enhanced experience to all our stakeholders, including ERS members, individual users and our institutional subscribers.

Tony Alves, Senior Vice President of Product at HighWire, added, “We are excited to continue our partnership with ERS! The upgrade significantly improves the user experience, allowing ERS to host multiple content types on a single platform”.

This partnership is expected to drive significant business impact for ERS by making content distribution more efficient and user-friendly. Additionally, the platform’s customizable design is anticipated to reduce service requests, leading to further savings in cost and effort.

About HighWire Press

HighWire Press provides digital publishing tools and solutions across the publishing lifecycle, including content management, e-commerce, and analytics. Founded at Stanford University, HighWire is committed to advancing knowledge sharing in collaboration with leading publishers globally. Now powered by MPS Limited, HighWire combines deep domain expertise with innovative technology to serve commercial, society, and academic publishers. For more information, please visit highwirepress.com.

About the European Respiratory Society (ERS)

European Respiratory Society (ERS) is an international organisation that brings together physicians, healthcare professionals, scientists and other experts working in respiratory medicine. ERS is one of the leading medical organisations in the respiratory field, with a growing membership representing over 140 countries.

ERS’s mission is to promote lung health in order to alleviate suffering from disease and drive standards for respiratory medicine globally. Science, education and advocacy are at the core of everything it does.

As part of that mission, ERS publishes a range of journals and books, owned and managed by the respiratory community: European Respiratory Journal, ERJ Open Research, European Respiratory Review, Breathe, ERS Monograph series and ERS Handbook series.

For more information about the ERS publications, please visit ERS Publications.

 

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