Case Study: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory accelerates COVID-19 research sharing with HighWire Press hosting solutions

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory maintained 99.8% uptime with HighWire Press

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), a leading international biomedical research center, needed a robust platform to host and manage its vital preprint servers, bioRxiv and medRxiv, which were experiencing an unprecedented surge in submissions and traffic at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. They partnered with HighWire Press to utilize its submission system and content hosting platforms to ensure the free and immediate dissemination of critical research.

HighWire Press provided a powerful and reliable hosting solution that successfully managed the massive influx of content and users. The results were significant, with the HighWire-hosted servers maintaining 99.8% uptime despite traffic spiking to over 13 million page views per month. HighWire's platform was instrumental in hosting over 28,000 pandemic-related preprints, accelerating the screening process to disseminate research faster and supporting a vast majority of COVID-19 preprint citations.

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