01. Back to our roots

Connecting the best minds to the most people

02. What we do

HighWire is the principal digital partner for the global publishing community.

03. Our customers

Whether a society, university press or an independent publisher, it is critical that your content attract and captivate the attention of your target audiences. That’s why we’ve been helping the brightest minds reach more people since 1995.

About HighWire

Born out of Stanford University, HighWire is a trusted global provider of innovative scholarly publishing technology. In 1995, we spearheaded the digital publishing revolution, working with Google to digitize and index academic journals. Today, we are powered by MPS, providing the scholarly publishing community with leading edge solutions and capabilities.

Our end-to-end suite of platform tools span the entire publishing lifecycle: from manuscript submission and peer review, content hosting and publication, to analytics and reporting. Whether it’s a journal, preprint repository, or books and multimedia, we help you connect the brightest minds with the most people.

99.97%

Uptime delivered

85m

Monthly search requests

60m

Monthly users

200m

Key activities per month

80m

Unique visitors per month

28m

Downloads per month

15m

New content alerts per month

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Search requests per month

Our clients include some of the most influential scientific journals and publishers in the world.

“I have always been satisfied with the stable and reliable product that HighWire provides; there is virtually zero down-time or outages, and there rarely seem to be any problems for our readers.”

Raquel Abad, Managing Editor, American Society for Enology and Viticulture

“It’s very important that we have close, trusted working relationships with our digital partners. The HighWire team has listened to our recent feedback to ensure a level of service that supports our day-to-day requirements and gives us confidence in the future.”

Kathryn Gibbons, Operations Manager, BMJ

“When looking for partners to digitise our range of publications, HighWire’s intelligent platform was an easy choice. It gives us the ability to offer up our extensive collection of content instantaneously and with ease, as well as providing us with valuable insight and data to inform our publishing process."

Pascal Schwarzer, VP of Digital Development, Springer Publishing

“Content upload was reduced from 26 hours to 45 minutes, there was a 200% traffic uplift and a 42.24% rise in organic referrals.”

BrillOnline Reference Works & BrillOnline Bibliographies

“Our new design delivers an elegant reader experience, makes it easier to find important content, and has resulted in increased advertising revenue.”

Christian Kohler, Scholarly Publishing, American Diabetes Association

“We needed a fast, reliable and scalable system that would allow for thousands of submissions. It was a natural fit to choose the flexibility of BenchPress as it successfully tackled our business challenges and led to reduced costs and time saved.”

Kevin-John Black, Product Lead for bioRxiv, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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August, 24, 2021

McGraw Hill and HighWire are pleased to announce a five-year renewal agreement to host McGraw Hill’s AccessEngineering and AccessScience on HighWire’s Scolaris platform. This means that Access Science will be migrating from an earlier version platform to Scolaris, HighWire’s multi-content, future-facing platform.  

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