...research, teaching, and learning; the effective deployment of information technology; and the evolution and growth of scholarly communication.

Fortuitously, within two years of Keller's 1993 arrival on campus, Stanford founded HighWire Press to address a growing concern within academia that scientific societies and not-for-profit publishers would, individually, lack the resources and expertise to remain competitive in the Internet era. (Keller, in fact, calls digital preservation of content "the real challenge of the digital age.") The goals of the enterprise, which today serves roughly 150 client publishers, were twofold: "to improve the delivery of scientific research articles through the Web and to help reputable, small- to medium-sized scholarly publishers make the transition to the online environment both efficiently and economically."

Nine years later, the urgency of these goals is palpable. "The basic problem set is...

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