FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Royal Society of Medicine Press choose HighWire for online
hosting
The Royal Society of Medicine Press and Stanford
University's
HighWire Press are delighted to announce their new
partnership
for online journals publishing. Content from all 16 of the
RSM
Press journals will be live on HighWire's premier
ePublishing
platform by early May 2008, as RSM Press expands its
HighWire
presence.
"HighWire's reputation is excellent, and they host an
unrivalled
selection of the world's leading medical journals. In
addition,
their platform provides the flexibility and stability
required
for ePublishing in the current climate," says Peter
Richardson,
the Managing Director of RSM Press. "We have been
working with
the HighWire team for many years on the Journal of the Royal
Society of Medicine, and they were the natural choice when
we
decided to consolidate our online journals onto a single
platform."
A key benefit of the new HighWire partnership is easier
access to
the RSM Press eJournals Collection, which offers
institutions the
opportunity to subscribe to all RSM Press journals at a
special
collection rate. Covering a wide range of topics from sexual
health to tropical medicine, and from telemedicine to health
policy, the RSM Press eJournals Collection is part of a
range of
new purchasing and licensing options available from RSM
Press.
"We see many ways in which HighWire can help RSM Press
with their
goals to promote their prestigious branding," said John
Sack,
Director of HighWire Press. "HighWire's new platform,
H2O, will
provide them with the technical expertise and flexibility to
layer new services on to their online presence into the
future."
Included on the new RSM platform are two journals which have
never been online before: Journal of Integrated Care
Pathways and
Journal of Medical Biography. Each journal will be available
with
three years of back content from launch, and access will be
free
to existing print subscribers and eJournals Collection
customers.
As an adjunct to the move, RSM Press have signed up to both
LOCKSS and Portico, to preserve their digital content for
future
generations.
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About RSM Press
Established over 200 years ago, the Royal Society of
Medicine
(RSM) is an independent, non-political organization whose
mission
is to promote and exchange views on medical, educational and
other health care issues and to provide a broad range of
education for qualified doctors and healthcare workers. The
RSM
has a worldwide multidisciplinary membership that currently
exceeds 20,000, including a substantial number of overseas
members.
RSM Press, a wholly owned trading subsidiary of the RSM, is
the
publishing arm of the RSM and publishes books, journals and
online services. The organisation has grown significantly in
recent years, and further growth is planned for the future.
The 16 journals published by RSM Press cover a wide variety
of
subjects in the medical field, from biochemistry to ethics
and
from biography to telemedicine. In addition to publishing
their
own journals, RSM Press also provide publishing services to
an
increasing number of medical societies and organisations,
such as
the Medical Screening Society, the Association for Clinical
Biochemistry and the British Menopause Society.
More information can be found at www.rsmjournals.com.
Contact: Kristen Boyton, Journals Sales Manager
(kristen.boyton rsm.ac.uk)
or Natasha Cohen, Senior Journals Development Editor
(natasha.cohenrsm.ac.uk)
About HighWire Press
HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University
Libraries,
provides online site development and hosting solutions to
the
scholarly publishing community. HighWire produces the
definitive
online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and
other
scholarly content in many disciplines. Since 1995, HighWire
has
partnered with influential societies, university presses and
other publishers to create a vast database of the finest,
fully
searchable research, medical and social science literature
available on the Internet. The HighWire community shares
ideas
and innovations in publishing through regular meetings,
discussion forum and through the service of its unique blend
of
highly qualified staff.
More information can be found at http://highwire.stanfor
d.edu.
Contact: Bonnie Zavon, Public Relations (bzavonstanford.edu)
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