John Wiley & Sons is a global publishing company founded in 1807 based in Hoboken, New Jersey. The company specializes in academic and professional publishing.
With strong brands like Wiley Blackwell and Wiley VCH, it publishes books, journals, reference works and lab protocols. It also provides content-enabled solutions to improve outcomes in research, education and practice.
About Us
John Wiley & Sons is a world-leading publisher of research and education products and services. We provide peer-reviewed scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing, content platforms, and related services to a broad range of academic, professional, and corporate customers around the world.
Our primary product areas include scientific, technical and medical (STM) books, journals and databases; educational books, including college textbooks, for undergraduates and graduates; professional books; and subscription services for scientists and academics. We also offer educational software, e-books, online courses, and learning resources.
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons is one of the oldest and most prestigious publishers in the United States. During the 20th century, we expanded our business through acquisitions, strategic alliances and growing emphasis on electronic distribution.
The early 1990s marked a new era for the company, with a new management team and a sweeping strategy to reclaim its fortunes and restore its place as one of America's premier publishing companies. During this time, the company embarked on a series of acquisitions that dramatically increased its presence in both scientific and academic publishing.
While many of these acquisitions were small, a number of them were significant, especially those involving the U.K.-based Pearson PLC and its Jossey-Bass unit, which provided Wiley with professional/trade publishing titles in a variety of business, psychology, education, health, and finance fields. In addition, the company purchased VCH Publishing Group, a German technical publisher.
This purchase, which significantly boosted the company's professional/trade division, helped to fuel growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Other notable purchases included Alan R. Liss, Inc., which added more than 100 titles to John Wiley & Sons' scientific/technical portfolio, and a diversified business publisher called Ronald Press that added business and accounting titles to the company's backlist.
During this period, the company also launched a number of new business lines that signaled the company's intention to expand into more modern markets. These ventures included a foray into nonbook sales, such as the sale of pencils, school slates and violins, along with stereoscopic equipment and pictures.
Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is an international scholarly publisher, formed by the merger of John Wiley & Sons’ Global Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly business with Blackwell Publishing in 2007. We publish a wide range of academic and professional fields: biology; medicine; allied health; physical sciences, including engineering; social science; and the humanities.
Wiley-Blackwell’s products and services help people worldwide meet their learning and career goals. Our products include a range of electronic books, journals, databases and reference works in various subject areas. We also offer professional development courses, training programs and other services.
We are a leading international publisher in science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. Through our scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing platform Wiley InterScience, we deliver content across more than 1,200 scientific, academic and professional journals. Our STM content is complemented by a full complement of e-books and reference works, as well as by our world-renowned laboratory protocols and online lab manuals.
Through our Society Publishing Division, we publish on behalf of more than 700 academic and professional societies representing more than 1 million members around the world. The collaboration with societies, which we continue to strengthen since the Wiley-Blackwell merger, provides a wealth of benefits to both parties. In addition to accessing superlative peer-reviewed scientific content and enhanced visibility among society memberships, our prestigious partners gain Wiley-Blackwell’s publishing expertise as well as access to Wiley-Blackwell’s renowned collections of journals and books.
Our research content and services are used by researchers and professionals in academia, industry, and government worldwide. Our Global Research business specializes in content-enabled solutions that improve outcomes in research, education and professional practice through the use of online tools, journals, books, databases, reference works and laboratory protocols.
In Higher Education, we offer WileyPLUS (link is external), an online product that combines the electronic versions of a text with media resources and tools to support students’ learning. It also supports instructors’ teaching and learning with a variety of features that assist in assignment management, grade management, and assessment.
In addition to providing a comprehensive set of e-books and media, our WileyPlus service offers users the ability to search and browse all of Wiley’s titles by topic, author, or discipline in order to find relevant information quickly and easily. With a rich range of personalization and alerting options, it is easy to stay connected to the most relevant content while working on assignments or studying for tests.
Wiley Author Services
Wiley Author Services is here to support authors at every stage of their publishing journey - from submission and acceptance, through to publication and promotion. We offer expert editorial assistance, including English language editing, translation, manuscript formatting, figure illustration and graphical abstract design - as well as a wide range of resources to help you prepare your article.
Wiley Open Access journals publish articles under a Creative Commons license, which means you retain the copyright to your work and the public is allowed to reuse it under a variety of conditions. This enables you to comply with funder mandates that require your article to be published under a CC-BY license.
Once you’ve submitted your article to a Wiley journal, it will undergo a thorough peer review process. This will be conducted by at least two appropriately qualified experts in your field selected by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief or a member of the Editorial Board. Upon review, the editors will decide whether your article meets the requirements of the journal and should be accepted for publication.
The Editorial Office will provide you with a copy of the journal’s Copyright Transfer Agreement or Copyright & Licensing Agreement (CTA or ELA), which you should complete, sign and date. Please be sure to indicate whether you own the copyright in your article or are an employee or student of your institution. If you are an employee, you must ensure that all members of your team have signed the CTA or ELA on your behalf, with additional signatures attached separately if necessary.
Alternatively, you can submit your article directly to a Wiley Open Access journal through our Manuscript Transfer Program. This will automatically transfer the paper and all reviews to the appropriate journal, which will consider the reviewers’ comments in light of your original article.
Many of our subscription-based journals now offer a hybrid open access option, which allows you to make your article available to the world immediately after publication. This means that your article will be made available on the journal website, where it can be accessed by anyone, anytime, anywhere, for free. For more information, see our How to Order Hybrid Open Access page.
Wiley Books
Wiley Books provides the essential knowledge and services that enable research, learning and professional practice worldwide. Our global portfolio consists of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals; reference works; books; database services; advertising; and test prep and certification.
Our academic and professional book products span the lifecycle of the human experience from positive psychology and self-help to business & management, teaching, and computing. Written by expert authors, our bestselling titles are sure to meet your needs.
We publish a variety of academic and non-academic book formats, including print textbooks, digital e-books, and audiobooks. Our digital content can be found in various online platforms, such as Wiley Online Library and WileyPLUS. In addition, Wiley also distributes books in specialized digital formats for the academic market, including Wiley Custom Select.
As a leading B2B publisher, we provide high quality media and services to customers in the pharmaceuticals, chemicals, foods, biotechnology, laboratory technology, automation, physics, and safety and security industries. Whether as print, digital or corporate publishing partner, we are market leaders and trend-setters in our fields and are dedicated to meeting the needs of our customers worldwide.
Founded in 1807, Wiley was initially a small printing shop that grew into a world-leading publishing company. Today, the company publishes more than 450 Nobel laureates in every category and more than 15,000 academic titles.
The Wiley brand has become a trusted name among academics and professionals worldwide. With more than 20 major international book series and a variety of global publishers, the company's content is written by celebrated academics, renowned researchers, and award-winning authors.
A leading provider of knowledge and knowledge-enabled services, Wiley improves outcomes in research, professional practice, and education through its three segments: Research, Professional Development, and Education. Its Research segment publishes a broad range of digital and print scientific, technical, and medical journals, reference works, and books; its Professional Development segment offers a range of online assessment, training and testing services; and its Education segment offers digital and print book products as well as software and other education solutions.
In 2016, revenue from the company's research and professional development segments decreased 5% and 2%, respectively, while print textbooks declined 20%. However, revenue from the digital book segment increased 5%.