CSHL Symposia & Archive moves to HighWire's H2O Platform

["Bonnie Zavon" <bzavon@stanford.edu>]

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press to release 70 Years of 
Ground-Breaking Biological Research on HighWire's New ePublishing 
Platform

[Press Release online: 
http://highwire.stanford.edu/inthepress/stories/CSHLP-HW_Symposia.pdf 
Pre-launch discount information available at 
http://www.cshsymposia.org]

May 28, 2008 (Cold Spring Harbor, NY and Stanford, CA)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHLP) today announced that it will
be moving its world-renowned annual series The Cold Spring Harbor Symposia
on Quantitative Biology (CSH Symposia) to the new HighWire electronic
publishing platform, H2O. The move will coincide with the launch of the
CSH Symposia's new 70-year online archive. The CSH Symposia have long been
signal events in in many fields of modern experimental biology. Now the
record of these events will be available for the first time in its
entirety on the premier HighWire platform.

"Since 1933, advances in biology such as the structure of DNA, 
the genetic code, the discovery of mobile genes, the PCR and RNAi 
techniques, and the feasibility of a human genome project have 
been announced, debated, and distilled at our annual Symposia," 
said Dr. John Inglis, Executive Director of CSHLP. "The Symposia 
focus on a different and timely field of research each year, and 
the participants are handpicked luminaries and rising stars of 
that particular field. We are excited to be able to offer the 
complete record of this historically unique material online for 
the first time with the help of HighWire."

"We're proud that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press decided to 
move this vital series to HighWire," said John Sack, Director of 
HighWire Press. "H2O's flexibility makes it the ideal platform 
for handling complex, non-journal content, such as the Symposia."

HighWire's H2O platform infrastructure is designed to cooperate 
with emerging web services and technologies, keeping publishers 
ahead of the curve. Because the system architecture seamlessly 
accommodates content structured in many different ways, H2O works 
well with journals, books, reference works, and other media 
formats, such as CSHLP's online laboratory methods resource CSH 
Protocols. Recent volumes of the CSH Symposia will be moved from 
current host, Atypon Systems, and CSHLP will be digitizing the 
complete archive for release in October 2008.

The archive of these historic meetings will be available online 
as a stand-alone collection for one-time purchase covering 1933 
to 2003, and will include the following highly influential 
volumes:

   1946: Heredity and Variation in Microorganisms
   1953: Viruses
   1966: The Genetic Code
   1974: Tumor Viruses
   1980: Movable Genetic Elements
   1987: Evolution of Catalytic Function
   1990: The Brain
   2003: The Genome of Homo sapiens

The contributions recorded in each Symposium volume, and the 
accompanying photographs of participants in action, make a unique 
contribution to the scholarly history of science in the 20th 
century and the emergence of molecular and cellular biology as 
drivers of all aspects of current biomedical research. CSH 
Symposia volumes from 2004-present will available online with the 
purchase of the current year's hardcover print edition.

More information, including pre-launch discounts can be found online at
www.cshsymposia.org.

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About Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Established more than a century ago, Cold Spring Harbor 
Laboratory, New York, is a private, non profit basic research and 
educational institution. Its 330 scientists conduct 
groundbreaking research in cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, 
and bioinformatics. Their studies have won numerous awards and 
honors, including three Nobel Prizes. The Laboratory is 
recognized internationally for professional training programs 
that bring more than 8000 scientists to its campus each year, and 
innovative graduate education, and outreach programs that enhance 
K-12 education and the public understanding of science.

About Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
>From its beginnings in 1933 as an initiative to publish an Annual 
Symposium in Quantitative Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 
Press is now an internationally recognized science publisher. The 
largest of the five educational divisions of the Laboratory, with 
more than 200 books in print, 6 research journals, and a variety 
of multimedia and online resources, its publications inspire and 
train scientists, educate students, and explain science to the 
public. Visit www.cshlpress.com for a complete list of 
publications and to register for a free monthly newsletter 
featuring information on new titles, meetings, courses, and 
employment opportunities.

About HighWire Press
HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, 
provides online site development and hosting solutions to the 
scholarly publishing community. HighWire produces the definitive 
online versions of high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and other 
scholarly content in many disciplines. Since 1995, HighWire has 
partnered with influential societies, university presses and 
other publishers to create a vast database of the finest, fully 
searchable research, medical and social science literature 
available on the Internet. The HighWire community shares ideas 
and innovations in publishing through regular meetings, 
discussion forum and through the service of its unique blend of 
highly qualified staff.

For more information on HighWire's new platform, H2O, please see 
http://highwire.stanford.edu/inthepress/stories/H2OPlatform.pdf

Contacts:
Stephanie Novara
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
(516) 422-4159
novara@cshl.edu

Bonnie Zavon
HighWire Press - Stanford University
650.723.0522
bzavon@stanford.edu