Stanford University’s HighWire press provides electronic access to a wide variety of high impact journals with a focus on science, technology, and medicine (STM). As a research institution, Stanford is strongly interested in the economics of provision of scholarly information to researchers, especially STM research information.

Through HighWire users can access:

  • all of Medline, with full-text links to publishers’ 301 full-text journals
  • searches across all journals, or selected journals, or search within topics
  • 380,677 free full-text articles with about 3,000 more free each month, making HighWire the largest archive of free life science articles in the world
  • journal subscription facility
  • alerts to new content that matches specific user interests in any of HighWire-affiliated publishers’ full text, or in Medline

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