HighWire Press

Name

HighWire Press

Legal name

HighWire Press, Inc.

Website

https://home.highwire.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Scholarly Publishing Platform

NAICS

Periodical Publishers (513120), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Interdisciplinary & Multidisciplinary Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAI), Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs (EDAGAFAJ), Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK)

Keywords

• Scholarly publishing platform
• Academic journal hosting
• Peer review software
• Manuscript submission system
• COUNTER-compliant analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Redwood City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Platform Hosting Services: Subscription-based hosting and platform services for publishers, including content hosting, digital publication management, and identity management through Sigma system. Revenue is recurring through multi-year contracts with major publishers.
2. Editorial and Production Services: Professional services including manuscript processing, peer review management, and book production services through DigiCorePro, BenchPress, DigiEdit, and MPSLabs.
3. Analytics and Reporting Solutions: Analytics platforms including Impact Vizor, Insight Vizor, and ScholarlyStats providing COUNTER-compliant reporting and scholarly insights to publishers and libraries.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

HighWire Press provides a cloud-based, end-to-end scholarly publishing platform that spans the entire publishing lifecycle—from manuscript submission and peer review through content hosting, publication, identity management, subscription handling, and analytics/reporting. The platform supports journals, preprint repositories, books, and multimedia content for scientific and academic publishers, scholarly societies, and university presses, complemented by professional services such as book production, fulfillment, and R&D through MPSLabs.

Product overview

HighWire Press offers an end-to-end suite of platform tools spanning the entire scholarly publishing lifecycle. The portfolio includes Scolaris and JCore as the core hosting platforms; BenchPress for manuscript submission and peer review; DigiCorePro, DigiEdit, and Rubriq for editorial and production workflows; Impact Vizor, Insight Vizor, and ScholarlyStats for analytics and reporting; Sigma for identity and access management with CRM integration; and THINK365 for subscription management. Supporting services include MPSLabs (R&D), Fulfillment Services, and Book Production Services. The company also delivers managed services including COUNTER-compliant analytics and full-text content delivery capabilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Scolaris Multi-content, future-facing hosting platform for journals, preprint repositories, books, and multimedia content, with advanced hosting capabilities for major scientific publishers.
• JCore Core hosting and publishing platform for digital content delivery, supporting journal publication and content management for scholarly publishers.
• BenchPress Manuscript submission and peer review platform designed for high-volume scholarly publishers, providing flexibility and scalability for processing large numbers of submissions (e.g., bioRxiv at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).
• DigiCorePro Editorial and production tool for managing the full publishing workflow from manuscript to publication, supporting digital content processing for scholarly publishers.
• DigiEdit Editorial management component for handling the editing and review stages of scholarly content in publisher workflows.
• Rubriq Peer review management solution that streamlines and scores the scholarly article review process for publishers.
• Impact Vizor Analytics tool for tracking and visualizing scholarly content performance and engagement metrics for publishers.
• Insight Vizor Analytics platform providing insights into user behavior and content consumption patterns on scholarly hosted publications.
• ScholarlyStats COUNTER-compliant statistical reporting and analytics service providing standardized usage reporting for scholarly publishers and libraries.
• Sigma Identity management system providing user authentication, access control, and CRM integration capabilities including Salesforce connectivity for publisher platforms.
• THINK365 Subscription management platform for handling continuous access, access controls, and content licensing for institutional customers of scholarly publishers.
• MPSLabs Research and development service for exploring and implementing innovative publishing technologies in collaboration with scholarly publishers.
• Fulfillment Services Service for managing content distribution and fulfillment operations for scholarly publishers.
• Book Production Services Comprehensive book publishing production services covering the entire workflow from manuscript to printed or digital output for academic and university press publishers.

Quantifiable outcome

• Content upload time reduced from 26 hours to 45 minutes (97% reduction)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers20 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature13 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered notable and core.

• Middle East InstitutenotableStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 May 2026HighWire Press successfully launched an upgraded digital hosting platform for The Middle East Journal, the flagship publication of the Middle East Institute. The new platform provides advanced search and discovery capabilities, Salesforce CRM integration through HighWire's Sigma identity management system, COUNTER-compliant analytics, and full-text content delivery. The companies are developing plans to integrate the MEJ platform with the Institute's main website to create a unified knowledge ecosystem for researchers and policymakers.
• McGraw HillcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 24 August 2021Five-year renewal agreement to host McGraw Hill's AccessEngineering and AccessScience on HighWire's Scolaris platform. Access Science is migrating from an earlier version platform to Scolaris, HighWire's multi-content, future-facing platform, for identity management and hosting services.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Clarivate: Clarivate operates Web of Science, ScholarOne Manuscripts (peer review), and various analytics products that intersect with HighWire's BenchPress, Impact Vizor, and ScholarlyStats offerings, making it both a competitor and ecosystem partner for academic publishers.
• JSTOR: JSTOR is a digital library and content platform that hosts scholarly journals and primary sources. While primarily a content archive rather than a hosted publishing platform, JSTOR competes with HighWire for institutional relationships and is increasingly active in publishing services.
• EBSCO Information Services: EBSCO is a broad incumbent in scholarly information services, providing research databases, discovery (EBSCO Discovery Service), and full-text hosting that overlaps with HighWire's content distribution and analytics offerings for libraries and institutions.
• Innovative (Ex Libris): Ex Libris, part of Clarivate, provides library services platforms and discovery tools that intersect with HighWire's distribution and access management layers (Sigma, THINK365). Comparable as adjacent scholarly information infrastructure.

Direct peers

• Silverchair: Silverchair is a direct peer operating a unified platform for scholarly and professional publishers across journals, books, and conferences. It serves many of the same society and university press customers as HighWire, with overlapping product functionality in hosting, analytics, and identity management.
• Atypon: Atypon, acquired by Wiley in 2020, is the closest direct competitor to HighWire. It provides scholarly publishing platforms (Literatum) for journals, books, and reference works, serving many of the same large-publisher and society customers that HighWire targets. The two compete head-to-head for marquee hosted-journal contracts.

Emerging players

• Pensoft Publishers: Pensoft is an open-access-focused scholarly publisher and platform provider (ARPHA Publishing Platform) competing with HighWire in the journal and book hosting layer, particularly for open-access and society journals seeking modern, workflow-integrated tooling.
• Knowledge Unlatched: Knowledge Unlatched is an open-access publishing facilitator and platform provider focused on monographs and journals. It represents an emerging model that competes for some of the same society and independent-publisher accounts that HighWire targets.
• Public Knowledge Project (Open Journal Systems): PKP's Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a widely used open-source journal management and publishing platform. It is a partial substitute for HighWire's BenchPress and JCore for budget-constrained publishers and societies, particularly in the open-access community.

Others

• Crossref: Crossref is a not-for-profit DOI registration agency and scholarly metadata infrastructure provider. While not a direct hosting competitor, it is part of the same publishing workflow ecosystem and a critical interoperability partner for HighWire's platform.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A1 record

Investments

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