John Wiley & Sons
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a well-known global publishing company serving professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and the world’s scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly communities. The company produces books, journals, and encyclopedias, in print and electronically, as well as online products and services, training materials, and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners.[1]
HistoryWiley was established in 1807, when Charles Wiley opened a print shop in Manhattan. Founded during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, Wiley is one of the oldest independent publishing companies in the world.[2] The company established its early reputation as the publisher of such leading 19th century American literary figures as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles. During the second industrial revolution, Wiley shifted its focus to “need to know” areas of publishing, expanding its scientific, technical, and engineering lists and abandoning its literary interests. The company acquired its present name in 1876, when John’s second son William H. Wiley joined his brother Charles in the business. Throughout the 20th century, the company expanded its offerings in business, the sciences, and higher education. Since the establishment of the Nobel Prize in 1901, Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 350 Nobel Laureates, in every category in which the prize is awarded. Governance and OperationsWhile the company is led by an independent management team and Board of Directors, the involvement of the Wiley family continues to this day, with sixth-generation members (and siblings) Peter Booth Wiley as the non-executive Chairman of the Board; Bradford Wiley II as a Director and past Chairman of the Board; and Deborah Wiley as Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications. Seventh-generation member Jesse Wiley is an assistant editor in the company’s Professional/Trade business. Wiley has been publicly owned since 1962, and listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1995; its stock is traded under the symbols NYSE: JWA and NYSE: JWB. William J. Pesce is President and Chief Executive Officer, the company’s tenth leader since 1807. Image:WileyBuilding1.jpg
The Wiley Building in Hoboken, New Jersey, located on the waterfront between River Street and Frank Sinatra Drive.
Today, Wiley operates in the USA, Canada, the EU, Asia, and Australia, with about 5,000 employees worldwide. Since 2002, the company's world headquarters have been located in Hoboken, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from Manhattan, where it had previously been based. The company’s global operations are organized into three core businesses: Professional/Trade; Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS), also known as Wiley-Blackwell; and Higher Education. Brands and PartnershipsWiley’s well-known Professional/Trade brands include For Dummies, Frommer’s, Webster's New World, CliffsNotes, Betty Crocker, Wrox Press, J.K. Lasser, and Sybex. In STMS, Wiley’s highly regarded brands include Wiley InterScience® and numerous prestigious journal brands, and in Higher Education, WileyPLUS is rapidly becoming a well-known brand. Wiley has publishing alliances with such partners as Microsoft, CFA Institute, the Culinary Institute of America(CIA), and the American Institute of Architects. In Higher Education, Wiley has partnered with the National Geographic Society to produce the innovative Wiley Visualizing series of introductory textbooks. Wiley-Blackwell partners with hundreds of professional and scholarly societies to publish their journals. Publishing in a New CenturyWith the integration of digital technology and the traditional print medium, Wiley is moving towards the realization of a publishing vision it calls “All Wiley All the Time,” enabling the customer to search across all Wiley content regardless of discipline or original medium, assemble a unique product, and receive the result in the format of choice.[3] These new resources are allowing the company to make a fundamental shift from being a product-centric business to being a customer-centric business. TravelIn the Frommer’s travel program, Wiley has taken a business built on print-on-paper guidebooks and developed it into an ongoing engagement with travelers. Through newsletters, online forums, and blogs, they cultivate their travel dreams; through guidebooks, travel Web sites, and custom PDF trip guides, they plan their trips; once embarked, they avail themselves of audio walking tours; and once home, they share their experiences with friends and family through online trip journals and photo albums. Higher EducationHigher Education’s WileyPLUS is one of the most successful products in company history, an integrated suite of online learning and teaching tools that brings together print, online, CD/DVD, and classroom resources to provide instructors and students with a single source for course planning, presentations, study, homework, and assessment. Instructors can create assignments and quizzes which are automatically graded; students receive immediate feedback and context-sensitive support, and benefit by hints and explanations, direct links back to the text, interactive problem solving, and practice quizzes. MedicineIn January 2008, Wiley launched an enhanced version of its evidence-based medicine (EBM) content resource, InfoPOEMs with InfoRetriever, under the name Essential Evidence Plus, providing primary-care clinicians with point-of-care access to the most extensive source of EBM information via their PDAs/handheld devices as well as their desktop computers. Essential Evidence Plus includes the InfoPOEMs daily EBM content alerting service and two new content resources—EBM Guidelines, a concise collection of practice guidelines, evidence summaries, and images, and e-Essential Evidence, an innovative general medical reference for general practitioners, nurses, and physician assistants providing first-contact care. The relaunch signifies the evolution of an important tool of EBM, which has become a central support of modern medical practice. The Blackwell AcquisitionWiley’s scientific, technical, and medical business was significantly expanded by the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing in February 2007.[4] The combined business, named Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (also known as Wiley-Blackwell), publishes, in print and online, 1,400 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books, major reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals in the life and physical sciences, medicine and allied health, engineering, the humanities, and the social sciences. Through a backfile initiative completed in 2007, 8.2 million pages of journal content have been made available online, a collection dating back to 1799. Wiley-Blackwell also publishes on behalf of about 700 professional and scholarly societies; among them are the American Cancer Society (ACS), for which it publishes Cancer, the flagship ACS journal; the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, with more than 120,000 members; and the American Anthropological Association. Other key journals published include Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, HEPATOLOGY, and Liver Transplantation. Launched commercially in 1999, Wiley InterScience provides online access to Wiley journals, major reference works, and books, including backfile content dating back to 1799. Journals previously from Blackwell Publishing are available online from Blackwell Synergy; as of July 1, 2008, they will be integrated into Wiley InterScience, and in January 2009 a new service will be launched that will go beyond the current features and functionality of Wiley InterScience and Blackwell Synergy. In December 2007, Wiley also began distributing its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service. Corporate CultureThe company has been honored on several occasions for the quality of its corporate culture. In 2008, Wiley was named for the second consecutive year to Forbes Magazine's annual list of the "400 Best Big Companies in America". In 2007, Book Business magazine cited Wiley as ["One of the 20 Best Book Publishing Companies to Work For". For two consecutive years, 2006 and 2005, Fortune magazine named Wiley one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For". Wiley Canada was named to Canadian Business magazine's 2006 list of "Best Workplaces in Canada", and Wiley Australia has received the Australian government's "Employer of Choice for Women" citation every year since its inception in 2001. In 2004, Wiley was named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "Best Workplaces for Commuters" list. Working Mother magazine in 2003 listed Wiley as one of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers", and that same year, the company received the Enterprise Award from the New Jersey Business & Industry Association in recognition of its contribution to the state's economic growth. In 1998, Wiley was selected as one of the "most respected companies," with a "strong and well thought out strategy," by the Financial Times in a global survey of Chief Executive Officers. Wiley was the only publisher on a list that included such global brand names as General Electric, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Intel, and Proctor & Gamble. The Wiley BicentennialAs one of the world’s oldest independent publishing companies, Wiley marked its bicentennial in 2007 with a year-long celebration, hosting festivities that spanned four continents and ten countries and included such highlights as ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange on May 1. In conjunction with the anniversary, the company published Knowledge for Generations: Wiley and the Global Publishing Industry, 1807-2007 (Wiley, 2008), ISBN 978-0-471-75721-4, depicting Wiley’s pivotal role in the evolution of publishing against a social, cultural, and economic backdrop. Wiley has also created an online community called Wiley Living History, offering excerpts from Knowledge for Generations and a forum for visitors and Wiley colleagues to share comments and anecdotes that will add to the company's continuing story. NotableOn April 25, 2007, a representative from the Society of Chemical Industry, which publishes Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture,[5][6], on Wiley InterScience, sent a “cease and desist” letter to blogger Shelley Batts that warned of consequences if she did not remove the image from an article in that journal that she posted without permission on her blog, but later apologized for the over-reaction, citing it as "a misunderstanding inadvertently caused by a junior member of staff".[7] Bibliography
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