Wiley-Interscience

John Wiley & Sons is one of the best-known names in non-fiction publishing. It boasts nearly 200 years of history and today is known for everything from the most scholarly journals, through reference works and textbooks, to the hugely successful 'For Dummies' series. Wiley made a major foray into scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishing in 1961 when it acquired InterScience Publishers. Since then it has continued to expand its STM publishing program with the acquisition in 1989 of Alan R Liss, a publisher of journals and books in the life sciences, and of VCH in 1996, an important scientific, technical, and professional publisher based in Germany. VCH has a longstanding publishing partnership with the German Chemical Society, and the acquisition of the VCH Group further strengthened Wiley's leadership in these markets. In 1997 Wiley InterScience was launched onto the World Wide Web initially as a free service offering full-text access to its journals. Two years later Wiley InterScience became a commercial service in which abstracts can be accessed and searched at no charge, with the full-text of journal articles being available either through a variety of licence and subscription deals or Pay Per View (PPV).