Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP) has signed an agreement for Stanford University’s HighWire Press to host its entire journals collection, beginning January 2005. Through this partnership OUP and HighWire aim to develop a leading online environment in academic publishing. HighWire Press, which currently hosts the majority of OUP’s science, technology, and medicine (STM) journals, is a not-for-profit organization that is a department of Stanford University Libraries. HighWire Press is a division of the Stanford University Libraries, producing the online versions of journals and other scholarly content since 1995. HighWire Press delivers a collection of searchable research literature in Web environments and hosts a repository of free, full-text, peer-reviewed articles.

Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children’s books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. Oxford Journals publishes journals covering a range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection includes Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies.
(www.highwire.org; www.oupjournals.org)