When was Wiley founded and by whom?
Wiley was founded in 1807, when Charles Wiley opened a print shop in Manhattan. The firm changed names several times before becoming John Wiley & Sons in 1876.
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Where is Wiley headquartered today?
Wiley has been headquartered in Hoboken, New Jersey, since 2002. The company employs about 10,000 people worldwide.
Why did Wiley stop using the Hindawi brand?
Wiley bought the open access publisher Hindawi in 2021 for $298 million in cash. In 2023, more than 8,000 articles produced by paper mills were retracted from Hindawi journals. Wiley stopped using the Hindawi brand that same year and folded its remaining roughly 200 journals into the main Wiley brand.
Why was Wiley sued in a 2024 antitrust class action?
In September 2024, UCLA neuroscience professor Lucina Uddin sued John Wiley & Sons and five other academic journal publishers. The proposed class action alleged the publishers agreed not to compete for manuscripts and denied scholars payment for peer review work.
How much money is Wiley expected to earn from AI training deals?
Reports in August 2024 said Wiley stood to earn $44 million, about £33 million, by giving artificial intelligence firms access to its published content for training large language models. Authors had no option to opt out of having their work included.
What does Wiley Online Library give members access to?
Wiley Online Library, which launched on the 7th of August 2010, gives members access to more than 4 million articles, plus more than 22,000 books and hundreds of reference works, lab protocols, and databases. It runs on the Literatum platform built by Atypon, a company Wiley acquired in 2016.