FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


HighWire Press’ Chinese Connection


August 26, 2004. Stanford, California – HighWire Press, Stanford
University’s electronic journal development and hosting service, has
recently opened a direct pipeline Internet connection with CERNET, the
China Education and Research Network. Online content from all 361
HighWire-hosted journals – containing over 1.8 million articles to date
(more than 750,000 full text articles are freely available without
subscription) – are now fully accessible through a locally-hosted broadband
connection authorized and supported by the Ministry of Education of the
People’s Republic of China.

   Because of this pathway to HighWire-hosted journals, readers affiliated
with China's academic institutions are able to access high-impact journal
content online without being charged for Internet traffic to “foreign” web
sites. Chinese academic librarians can activate their online subscriptions
and run COUNTER-compliant usage reports directly through each journal’s
subscriber help pages. The connection also allows Chinese researchers and
students to use the free full-text searching and alerting features on the
HighWire Portal: http://intl.highwire.org without incurring access fees.

   As a result of this direct channel access, HighWire-affiliated
publishers have strengthened the link with their members, authors, and
growing readership within China. By improving online access to high-impact
journal content to current customers, and simplifying the route to the
rapidly growing free content available through HighWire, the CERNET
connection is another step on the road to breaking down barriers in
disseminating knowledge on the World Wide Web.

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About HighWire Press

   HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries,
produces the online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and
other scholarly content. Recipient of the 2003 ALPSP Award for “Service to
Not-for-Profit Publishing”, HighWire partners with influential societies,
university presses and other scholarly publishers to create a collection of
the finest, fully searchable research, clinical, humanities and social
science literature online. Together, these partners produce nearly half of
the 200 most-frequently-cited journals publishing in science. From a single
host, users can find the largest repository of free full-text life science
articles in the world: over 750,000 free articles, on the Stanford servers,
plus links to thousands of others.

   Born out of the serials crisis, HighWire Press was created as an
alternative to commercial journal web aggregators. The HighWire portal was
developed to provide a uniform interface for disparate journal sites, both
as a user-friendly launch pad for scholarly research, and as a way to
manage institutional subscriptions. Since 1995, with the launch of the
Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), to the continuous online production
of hundreds of prestigious journals, such as PNAS, Science Online, and the
New England Journal of Medicine, HighWire has established an outstanding
reputation for helping to disseminate primary scientific information on the
Web. For further information, go to www.highwire.org or, for readers
outside the U.S: http://intl.highwire.org

   CERNET’s National Center is located in Tsinghua University with
regional, provincial, and campus backbones supported at universities
throughout the country. Through international gateway bandwidth through
channels connected by an Internet2 link to the United States and other
countries, more than 1000 educational and research institutions, across
over 200 cities, covering 10 million end users, have connected to CERNET to
date. CERNET enhances the information infrastructure in China, shortens the
gap between China and the west in the information industry, and plays a
pioneer role in China's information initiative. www.edu.cn/HomePage/english/


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For more information:
Bonnie Zavon
Public Relations
HighWire Press – Stanford University
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