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Wiley-Blackwell ist ein Imprint des amerikanischen Wissenschaftsverlags John Wiley & Sons. Er wurde 2007 gegründet, nachdem John Wiley & Sons den britischen Wissenschaftsverlag Blackwell Publishing der Buchhandelskette Blackwell’s übernommen hatte, [1] und umfasst überdies auch den Bereich Naturwissenschaften ( STM) von John ...
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons. It was formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business with Blackwell Publishing in 2007.
Wiley-VCH, 1921 als Verlag Chemie gegründet, feierte im Jahr 2021 sein 100-jähriges Bestehen. Das Verlagsprogramm umfasst viele Bereiche der Naturwissenschaften - wie Chemie, Material- und Biowissenschaften, Physik, Medizin und Technik - sowie den Bereich Wirtschaft.
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The company was established in 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a print shop in Manhattan. The company was the publisher of 19th century American literary figures like James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, as well as of legal, religious, and other non-fiction titles. The firm took its current name in 1865. Wi...
Brands and partnerships
Wiley's Professional Development brands include For Dummies, Jossey-Bass, Pfeiffer, Wrox Press, J.K. Lasser, Sybex, Fisher Investments Press, and Bloomberg Press. The STMS business is also known as Wiley-Blackwell, formed following the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing in February 2007. Brands include The Cochrane Libraryand more than 1,500 journals. Wiley has publishing alliances with partners including Microsoft, CFA Institute, the Culinary Institute of America, the American Institute of...
Open access
In 2016, Wiley started a collaboration with the open access publisher Hindawito help convert nine Wiley journals to full open access. In 2018 a further announcement was made indicating that the Wiley-Hindawi collaboration would launch an additional four new fully open access journals. On January 18, 2019, Wiley signed a contract with Project DEAL to begin open access to its academic journals for more than 700 academic institutions. It is the first contract between a publisher and a leading re...
Higher education
Higher Education's "WileyPLUS" is an online product that combines electronic versions of texts with media resources and tools for instructors and students. It is intended to provide a single source from which instructors can manage their courses, create presentations, and assign and grade homework and tests; students can receive hints and explanations as they work on homework, and link back to relevant sections of the text. "Wiley Custom Select" launched in February 2009 as a custom textbook...
Governance and operations
While the company is led by an independent management team and Board of Directors, the involvement of the Wiley family is ongoing, with sixth-generation members (and siblings) Peter Booth Wiley as the non-executive chairman of the board and Bradford Wiley II as a Director and past chairman of the board. Seventh-generation members Jesse and Nate Wiley work in the company's Professional/Trade and Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly businesses, respectively.[citation needed] Wiley has...
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 Austra...
Gender pay gap
Wiley reported a mean 2017 gender pay gapof 21.1% for its UK workforce, while the median was 21.5%. The gender bonus gaps are far higher, at 50.7% for the median measure and 42.3% for the mean. Wiley said: "Our mean and median bonus gaps are driven by our highest earners, who are predominantly male."
Journal protests
The entire editorial board of the European Law Journalresigned over a dispute about contract terms and the behavior of its publisher, Wiley. Wiley did not allow the editorial board members to decide over editorial appointments and decisions. A majority of the editorial board of the journal Diversity & Distributionsresigned in 2018 after Wiley allegedly blocked the publication of a letter protesting the publisher's decision to make the journal entirely open access.
Publication practices
Wiley makes some articles disappear from their journals without any explanation.
Manipulation of bibliometrics
According to Goodhart's law and concerned academics like the signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, commercial academic publishers benefit from manipulation of bibliometrics and scientometrics like the journal impact factor, which is often used as proxy of prestige and can influence revenues, including public subsidiesin the form of subscriptions and free work from academics. Five Wiley journals, which exhibited unusual levels of self-citation, had their journal...
Photographer copyrights
A 2013 lawsuit brought by a stock photo agency for alleged violation of a 1997 license was dismissed for procedural reasons. A 2014 ruling by the District Court for the Southern District of New York, later affirmed by the Second Circuit,says that Wiley infringed on the copyright of photographer Tom Bean by using his photos beyond the scope of the license it had purchased. The case was connected to a larger set of copyright infringement cases brought by photo agency DRK against various publish...
Used books
In 2018, a Southern District of New York court upheld the award of over $39 million to Wiley and other textbook publishers in a vast litigation against Book Dog Books, a re-seller of used bookswhich was found to hold and distribute counterfeit copies. The Court found that circumstantial evidence was sufficient to establish distribution of 116 titles for which counterfeit copies had been presented and of other 5 titles. It also found that unchallenged testimony on how the publishers' usually a...
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons
In 2008, John Wiley & Sons filed suit against Thailand native Supap Kirtsaeng over the sale of textbooks made outside of the United States and then imported into the country. In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court held 6–3 that the first-sale doctrineapplied to copies of copyrighted works made and sold abroad at lower prices, reversing the Second Circuit decision which had favored Wiley.
The First One Hundred and Fifty Years: A History of John Wiley and Sons Incorporated 1807–1957. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 1957.Moore, John Hammond (1982). Wiley: One Hundred and Seventy Five Years of Publishing. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-86082-2.Munroe, Mary H. (2004). "John Wiley Timeline". The Academic Publishing Industry: A Story of Merger and Acquisition. Archived from the originalon October 20, 2014 – via Northern Illinois University.Wiley, Peter Booth; Chaves, Frances; Grolier Club (2010). John Wiley & Sons: 200 years of publishing (PDF). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.Blackwell Publishing is part of John Wiley & Sons. Browse, buy and learn at www.wiley.com, the online home of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., publisher of award-winning journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products.
John Wiley & Sons mit Sitz in Hoboken (New Jersey) ist ein börsennotierter US-amerikanischer Verlag vor allem für wissenschaftliche Literatur. Im Geschäftsjahr 2021/22 hatte das Unternehmen 9.500 Angestellte und machte einen Umsatz von 2,08 Milliarden US-Dollar.
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