PRESS RELEASE
30 May 2013
For Immediate Release
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GeoScienceWorld Selects HighWire for New eBooks Platform
WASHINGTON DC & STANFORD, CA
(printable version:
http://bit.ly/GSWeBooks)
GeoScienceWorld (GSW) and HighWire Press today announced a significant
expansion of
their journals partnership through a new integrated eBooks platform built
on the
HighWire Open Platform.
The GSW eBooks Collections will be the first nonprofit, multi-publisher
eBooks platform
devoted to the study of the earth sciences. It will include more than 1,000
scholarly
titles at launch with library-preferred purchasing and access models and
the latest
technologies from HighWire, including mobile access, faceted and map-based
searching,
metadata-driven content recommendations, and social sharing tools. Library
trials
will be available in January with public product release in May 2014.
With the addition of eBooks to its 45 geoscience journals and AGI's GeoRef,
GSW
will provide much of the most respected earth science content with
sophisticated
integration, search, and discovery capabilities. The organization's mission
is
to expand global access to scholarly resources using the most useful and
effective
research tools. As a nonprofit, GSW strives to deliver value without
commercial
markups. GSW's journals archive, for example, is provided to current
subscribers
free of charge.
The move comes on top of a related project slated for October 2013, the
beta release
of OpenGeoSci, a cyber-infrastructure and map-based discovery platform,
which will
provide free, geographic searching for more than 300,000 maps,
cross-sections, charts,
tables, and other data assets from an ever-expanding collection of public
and proprietary
journals, eBooks, and other vetted research resources.
"The data-driven integrated, and flexible approach demonstrated in these
projects
showcases the visionary partnership we set out to forge with our technology
partner,"
says Alix Vance, Executive Director of GeoScienceWorld. "HighWire has been
a trusted
partner for our publishers for nearly a decade. With the addition of their
Folio
eBook product and incorporation of Drupal technologies, HighWire has
increased its
commitment to creative solutions with its Open Platform. We're excited
about the
prospects for our new work together."
"We are pleased to team with GSW on this exciting project - delivering an
integrated
solution for researchers to seamlessly navigate among journals, books and
map-based
tools," said Tom Rump, Managing Director of HighWire. "The combination of
the HighWire
Open Platform and the capabilities of Drupal has the promise to be a market
changer."
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About GeoScienceWorld
GeoScienceWorld (www.gswhome.org) is a nonprofit collaborative and
comprehensive Internet resource for research and
communications in the earth sciences, built on a core database of
peer-reviewed
journals and is integrated with the GeoRef index. The organization gives
global
researchers a single point of access to 45 full-text scholarly journals
plus specialized
searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted
elsewhere
on the Web. Twitter: @geoscienceworld
GeoScienceWorld founding publishers: American Association of Petroleum
Geologists
* American Geosciences Institute * Geological Society of America *
Geological Society
of London * Mineralogical Society of America * SEPM - The Society for
Sedimentary
Geology * The Society of Exploration Geophysicists
GeoScienceWorld eBooks Collections program sponsors: ExxonMobil * The
American Association
of Petroleum Geologists Foundation * The Geological Society of London *
SEPM - The
Society for Sedimentary Geology * The Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Foundation.
About HighWire Press
At the forefront of strategic scholarly publishing, HighWire Press provides
the
latest in digital content development and hosting solutions to the
scholarly community
through its ground-breaking HighWire Open Platform. A division of the
Stanford University
Libraries, HighWire partners with influential societies, university
presses, and
other independent publishers, sharing ideas and innovations in publishing,
and
producing definitive online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed
journals, books,
reference works, and other scholarly content. Since its inception in 1995,
HighWire
has embodied a commitment to helping publishers disseminate their content
to the
widest possible audience, provided superior innovation, integration and
insights
to advance and facilitate the research communication process from within
the scholarly
community to meet the ever-changing needs of today's online and mobile
readers.
http://highwire.stanford.edu | Twitter: @highwirepress
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