Highwire Open Archive milestone

Highwire Press now has over 819,000 free online full-text articles. From the January 3 press release: 'Participating HighWire-hosted publishers have been steadily growing the world's largest collection of open access, high-impact scholarly research online. Today, more than 819,000 free peer-reviewed, full-text articles are available at www.highwire.org. This open archive covers a wide range of not-for-profit titles, with twice as much content as the current, NIH-funded repository, PubMed Central. Over 90% of the articles in the government repository are already available for free in their complete context (the entire online journal, not just individual articles), with advanced full-text searching and toll-free reference linking, through HighWire....Through the HighWire free back issues program, participating journals make all their research content free after a brief delay. Currently, 50 journals on HighWire offer content free within six months or less from the day of publication, another 161 titles after a wait of twelve months or more, and all offer immediate access for members, subscribers or those on an authorized institutional network....The pace of adding free articles is rapidly increasing, and HighWire expects to cross the one million mark during the year 2005.'