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Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:21 PM
Press Release For Immediate Release
AAAS/Science Renews Long-Standing Relationship with HighWire
WASHINGTON D.C. & STANFORD CA - FEBRUARY 7, 2013 - - The American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announced its decision to
renew their relationship to their long-standing ePublishing partner,
HighWire Press.
AAAS's reputation as a pioneer in scientific publishing comes from more than
150 years of a mission-driven goal to advance science and serve society.
Since 1995, as one of HighWire's first society partners, and now into the
future, the two organizations will continue to share a collegial and
collaborative working relationship, exploring new ways to innovate in the
scientific marketplace.
Stewart Wills, Science's Editorial Director, Web and New Media, said of the
decision: "HighWire's roadmap for the future dovetailed nicely with our own
plans for developing our Web sites and other information products, and
afforded us an opportunity to actively participate in that development on
the Drupal platform, which AAAS is using for a number of efforts. This was
an important factor in our decision, as it will allow for tighter
integration across our sites and for more experimentation and responsiveness
around the needs of our own users, while still taking advantage of the
community-based strengths of HighWire's platform."
AAAS has long been a distinguished source of content for their members and
the scientific communities they serve. Over the years of working with
HighWire, AAAS has created a series of connected digital assets, from the
prestigious and multi-media content of Science, to experimenting with
topical Knowledge Environments, to reaching new users with leading research
news and career sources.
"AAAS is a recognized authority in the STM world, truly a scholarly market
leader," said Tom Rump, HighWire's Managing Director. "Science's editorial
excellence, combined with the HighWire Open Platform which leverages Drupal
co-development services, will create exciting new publishing and technology
solutions."
About AAAS/Science
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the
world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal
Science (www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine
(www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and Science Signaling
(www.sciencesignaling.org). AAAS was founded in 1848 and includes some 261
affiliated societies and academies of science, serving 10 million
individuals. Science has the largest paid circulation of any peer-reviewed
general science journal in the world, with an estimated total readership of
1 million. The non-profit AAAS (www.aaas.org) is open to all and fulfills
its mission to "advance science and serve society" through initiatives in
science policy, international programs, science education, public
engagement, and more. For the latest research news, log onto EurekAlert!,
www.eurekalert.org, the premier science-news Web site, a service of AAAS.
See: www.aaas.org.
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, facilitating the research communication process to meet
the ever-changing needs of today's online and mobile readers.
highwire.stanford.edu
Press contact:
Bonnie Zavon, Public Relations
bzavon @stanford. edu
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