![]() 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. ![]() 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, reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals in the life and physical sciences, medicine and allied health, engineering, the humanities, and the social sciences. Wiley's scientific, technical, and medical business was expanded by the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing in February 2007 for US$1.12 billion, its largest purchase to that time. On April 16, 2012, the company announced the establishment of Wiley Brasil Editora LTDA in São Paulo, Brazil, effective May 1, 2012. Wiley established publishing operations in India in 2006 (though it has had a sales presence since 1966), and has established a presence in North Africa through sales contracts with academic institutions in Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. In December 2010, Wiley opened an office in Dubai. In 2021, Wiley acquired Hindawi (publisher). Wiley has also created an online community called Wiley Living History, offering excerpts from Knowledge for Generations and a forum for visitors and Wiley employees to post their comments and anecdotes. In conjunction with the anniversary, the company published Knowledge for Generations: Wiley and the Global Publishing Industry, 1807-2007, depicting Wiley's role in the evolution of publishing against a social, cultural, and economic backdrop. In 2005, Wiley acquired the British medical publisher Whurr. In 1999, Wiley acquired the professional publisher Jossey-Bass from Pearson. In 1997, Wiley acquired the professional publisher Van Nostrand Reinhold (the successor to the company started by David Van Nostrand) from Thomson Learning. In 1996, Wiley acquired the German technical publisher VCH. In 1989, Wiley acquired the life science publisher Liss. ![]() Through the 20th century, the company expanded its publishing activities, the sciences, and higher education. Wiley joined his brother Charles in the business. The company acquired its present name in 1876, when John's second son William H. The firm was successively named Wiley, Lane & Co., then Wiley & Putnam, and then John Wiley. Ĭharles Wiley's son John (born in Flatbush, New York, 4 October 1808 died in East Orange, New Jersey, 21 February 1891) took over the business when his father died in 1826. Wiley later shifted its focus to scientific, technical, and engineering subject areas, abandoning its literary interests. 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. Wiley was established in 1807 when Charles Wiley opened a print shop in Manhattan.
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