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HighWire Press

Logo: highwirepress.com3

Internet hosting service

HighWire is an internet hosting service in the United States specialising in academic and scholarly publications. HighWire-hosted publishers collectively make over 2 million articles available (out of 7.5 million articles) freely accessible.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jan 1, 1995Founded1

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HighWire is an internet hosting service in the United States specialising in academic and scholarly publications. HighWire-hosted publishers collectively make over 2 million articles available (out of 7.5 million articles) freely accessible.2

The story

HighWire was founded by Stanford University Libraries in 1995. The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) (1905) published by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, was the first to launch online on the HighWire platform.

In 2014, majority ownership of HighWire was purchased by the private equity firm Accel-KKR.

In 2017, it was announced that the entirety of the journals published by HighWire would be indexed in Meta.

In 2020, HighWire was acquired by MPS Limited.

From Wikipedia’s article on HighWire, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Jan 1, 1995Founded Founded1

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