Societies
Usage of our content on Wiley Online Library continued to grow in 2012, with article downloads increasing from 216.8 million in 2011 to 247.6 million in 2012; a 14.2% increase. However, some of our titles saw only a moderate growth in online usage, compared to the tremendous increases following the launch of the Wiley Online…
Societies Research
OnlineOpen, Wileys hybrid open access model, enables authors to make their article fully open in a subscription journal, thus providing choice for authors to publish open access in the journal of their preference. With OnlineOpen, the author, their funding agency, or their institution pays a fee to ensure that the article is made available to non-subscribers immediately on…
Societies Research
Marketing colleagues for Wileys Social Science and Humanities (SSH) journals recently tapped the buzz around social media with the virtual Museum of Social Media, which ran from May through September 2012 on Wiley Online Library with promotions and free access to all readers. Featuring a clickable floor plan map with exhibits linking to collections of…
By
Kris Bishop
Marketing Manager
Societies
Kazakhstan is the worlds ninth largest country by land area, larger than the whole of Western Europe, and the largest landlocked nation; however, it has a relatively small population of less than 17 million. Kazakhstan was the last country to declare independence from the former Soviet Union, in December 1991, and President Nazarbayev has led…
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keith.webster
Vice President & Director, Academic Relations
Societies
Open Access in 2011 If it seems like a new open access journal launches every day, thats probably because it does! In 2011, on average four OA journals were added daily to the Directory of Open Access Journals. Many of the recent press announcements about Gold OA journal launches are from mainstream STM publishers including…
By
Rachel Burley
Vice President & Director, Open Access
Societies Research Libraries
A very interesting thread popped up on the social network Quora recently. Justin Kiggins, had the most popular answer to the question “Why do scientists tend to prefer PDF documents over HTML when reading scientific journals?” “For me, Justin wrote, “there is one primary reason that I prefer the PDF versions of scientific documents. PDFs…
By
Todd Toler
Director & Publisher, Wiley Online Library
Societies
Another year has gone by since our last article on Chinas research landscape, and as we start an auspicious Year of the Dragon its time to take stock of the current state of play in Chinas research and publishing environment, as well as some of Wileys China activities over the past year. Research and Publishing…
By
James Murphy
Publisher, Asia STM
Societies
While Wiley is widely known as a publisher of journals for scientific and scholarly societies, not everyone is aware that we also collaborate with many societies on their book publishing programs. These arrangements can take different forms, but the common thread is a mutual desire to collaborate to provide an effective member service and effective…
Societies Libraries
Following the launch of Wiley Online Library in August 2010 we can now look at a full calendar year of usage on the new site. A year ago we reported impressive increases in visits to the new site and downloads of articles immediately following the launch and we are delighted that growth has continued throughout…
By
Lorna Berrett
Director, Society Project Management
Societies Research
RightsLink® is the easy-to-use automated permissions clearing system developed by the Copyright Clearance Center to enable customers to clear permissions swiftly and easily — at any time, from anywhere in the world. As featured in a previous issue of Publishing News Wiley implemented RightsLink® for all our journals back in November 2009, and we have recently also…
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Kris Kleimann
Vice President & Director, Global Rights, Licensing,& Permissions