HighWire Press is an online service provider of Stanford University. HighWire Press is not a publisher,
it does not own the content readers access through their web browsers. The content is owned by our partner
publishers and they set all long term access policies.
Many librarians ask whether e-journal content they have subscribed to will be available to their reader
communities when access to the publishers web sites is no longer available (cancelled subscriptions,
change in publisher business practices, etc.). These questions are best directed to each individual publisher
via the question form at
To support both HighWire Press partner publishers and these publisher's librarian customers, HighWire Press has
taken the following actions to ensure long term access and preservation of online content:
All issues online stay online. Access is available to current issues on each journal website,
plus all previous issues and back material as available.
Free back issues. Many titles offered though HighWire Press offer free back issues older than
a set time period to the entire web community. Publishers are able to offer this unique service because their business
model is to 'recover costs' not to 'make as much money as the market can bear'. Their motives are to serve research,
teaching, learning -- not to make money for stock holders. Specific policies vary by publisher.
Standard archiving policies of data stored on magnetic tape. The HighWire Press servers are located
at Stanford University. All information that is online will continue to be kept online at Stanford. The data served
from Highwire Press is archived and stored according to rigorous industry standards.
LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) - Many HighWire Press affiliated publishers support the
LOCKSS Program, a multi-institutional, multi-publisher initiative to create a permanent web publishing and access system,
http://lockss.stanford.edu.