HighWire Press是提供免費(fèi)全文的、全球最大的學(xué)術(shù)文獻(xiàn)出版商之一，于1995年由美國(guó)斯坦福大學(xué)（Stanford University）圖書(shū)館創(chuàng)立。最初，僅出版著名的周刊“Journal of Biological Chemistry”，目前已收錄電子期刊340多種，文章總數(shù)已達(dá)130多萬(wàn)篇，其中超過(guò)47萬(wàn)篇文章可免費(fèi)獲得全文；這些數(shù)據(jù)仍在不斷增加。通過(guò)該界面還可以檢索Medline收錄的4500余種期刊中的1200多萬(wàn)篇文章，可看到文摘題錄。HighWire Press收錄的期刊覆蓋以下學(xué)科：生命科學(xué)、醫(yī)學(xué)、物理學(xué)、社會(huì)科學(xué)。

HighWire Press在線期刊主要具有以下特點(diǎn)：
1．提供免費(fèi)全文文獻(xiàn)的期刊。該鏈接下的頁(yè)面列出了本站收錄的所有可提供免費(fèi)全文文獻(xiàn)的期刊。在刊名后按“Free Issues”，“Free Trial”，“Free Site”標(biāo)注著相應(yīng)時(shí)間或其他，意義與前面介紹的相同。其中“Free Issues”欄中如標(biāo)注的是某月，則表示每年在該月及以前的所有文獻(xiàn)都免費(fèi)提供全文。
2．提供即將進(jìn)入本站的期刊。該鏈接下和頁(yè)面列出了即將加入本站的期刊及預(yù)計(jì)加入的時(shí)間。
3．提供在線使用部分期刊的統(tǒng)計(jì)情況。包括該刊被經(jīng)常閱讀的文獻(xiàn)和引用最頻繁的文獻(xiàn)（均采用本站收錄文獻(xiàn)的數(shù)據(jù)，每月重新統(tǒng)計(jì)）。
4．提供需要付費(fèi)的站點(diǎn)。列出需要收費(fèi)提供全文文獻(xiàn)的站點(diǎn)及其收費(fèi)標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，有兩種收費(fèi)方式�！癙ay-per-view Site”為在一段時(shí)間內(nèi)獲得使用某篇文獻(xiàn)的權(quán)利；“Site Pass”為在一段時(shí)間內(nèi)獲得該刊所有文獻(xiàn)的權(quán)利。
5．提供在線期刊文獻(xiàn)數(shù)。介紹了所收錄文獻(xiàn)的總數(shù)及各個(gè)期刊所提供文獻(xiàn)的情況。全部期刊按字順排列，從提供的文摘數(shù)、HTML格式的全文文獻(xiàn)、PDF格式的全文文獻(xiàn)數(shù)、全部全文文獻(xiàn)的總數(shù)、免費(fèi)全文文獻(xiàn)的數(shù)量，以及所提供的全部文獻(xiàn)數(shù)等幾個(gè)項(xiàng)目的統(tǒng)計(jì)表。
6．除本站外，還提供了其他一些可提供免費(fèi)全文服務(wù)的自然科學(xué)文獻(xiàn)站點(diǎn)，并進(jìn)行了簡(jiǎn)要介紹，并鏈接到更多的自然科學(xué)期刊的網(wǎng)頁(yè)。

使用方法 對(duì)HighWire Press收錄的期刊的檢索有三種方式：
1．按字母順序?yàn)g覽，選中某刊后，點(diǎn)擊可以進(jìn)入對(duì)該刊的檢索，檢索方法為一般檢索和高級(jí)檢索，如果在文章后標(biāo)出可獲取全文，則可以得到該文獻(xiàn)的PDF格式全文。
2．一般檢索：可以輸入作者、關(guān)鍵詞、年、卷、頁(yè)等限制進(jìn)行檢索，由于同時(shí)可以檢索Medline數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)，所以同時(shí)需要選擇是檢索Medline還是HighWire-hosted journals。點(diǎn)擊檢索結(jié)果后的文摘、全文、期刊網(wǎng)站、引用圖，可以分別獲得文摘、全文（PDF格式）、該期刊的網(wǎng)站主頁(yè)和該文被引用情況。
3．高級(jí)檢索：可提供以下限制，比如年、卷、起始頁(yè)、作者、起始年月、結(jié)果顯示形式、匹配形式（最佳匹配、最新出版）、數(shù)據(jù)庫(kù)（Medline、HighWire-hosted journals）等。

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A leading ePublishing platform, HighWire Press partners with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of more than 3000 journals, books, reference works, and proceedings. HighWire also offers a complete manuscript submission, tracking, peer review, and publishing system for journal editors, Bench>Press. HighWire provides outstanding technology and support services, and fosters a dynamic and innovative community, enhancing the strengths of each of its members. HighWire plays a unique role in the online publishing business: affiliated with an academic library, a first-class research institution, and partner and colleague to scholarly societies who value the high quality and content of their journals, books and other materials. By working with HighWire, publishers gain the economies of scale and networking opportunities of working collaboratively in their business technology.

HighWire has been affiliated with Stanford University since 1995, with the launch of the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC Online). Science, the Journal of Neuroscience, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) soon joined with HighWire to become pioneers who defined today's online journal. HighWire quickly became known for combining cutting-edge technology with long-term organizational stability and has maintained a leadership position in the industry ever since.

Librarians

Librarians and other information professionals routinely praise our highly intuitive management tools for their online subscriptions and reports. The HighWire portal provides a centralized interface for administrators to manage their accounts across HighWire-hosted publications. While HighWire is neither an aggregator nor sales agent, the HighWire portal increases the visibility of partner publishers and their publications for librarians and their patrons.

Researchers

The users of HighWire-hosted publications include researchers, clinicians, scholars, and students seeking the best online research from a vast database of full-text scholarly, high-impact materials. The HighWire portal offers advanced searching and browsing capabilities and tools, creating an alternative means to find and make sense of information from over seven million full-text articles; create keyword, citation or author alerts; and download citations across all the content HighWire hosts. Coming Summer 2014, HighWire will be launching an innovative new tool, eStacks, for researchers to collect, organize, and share the scholarly content that is meaningful to them.