Wiley
American multinational publishing company
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| 2024 | Wiley closed down 19 of its approximately 250 journals acquired from Hindawi after retracting over 11,300 'compromised' studies in the past two years. |
| September 2024 | Lucina Uddin, a neuroscience professor at UCLA, filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against John Wiley & Sons and five other academic journal publishers, alleging antitrust law violations related to non-competition for manuscripts and denial of payment for peer review services. |
| August 2024 | Wiley was reported to be projected to earn $44 million from partnerships with AI firms for using authors' content to train Large Language Models, without providing authors an opt-out option. |
| March 19 2024 | Wiley officially entered a scandal of persistent moral rights infringement, specifically involving articles by Zhongwei Shen, including 'Geometrically Exact Simulation of Inextensible Ribbon' and 'Harmonic Functions for Rotational Symmetry Vector Fields'. |
| November 2023 | Academic Partnerships agreed to purchase Wiley's OPM business for $110 million. |
| June 2023 | Wiley announced plans to divest several business units, including Wiley University Services, with full year revenue of $208 million, an 8% reduction from the prior year. |
| April 2022 | Science journal revealed that a Ukrainian company was operating a website selling authorships in academic papers, with over 100 papers published in Wiley-Blackwell journals identified as potentially fraudulent. |
| 2021 | Wiley acquired eJournalPress (EJP), a provider of web-based technology solutions for scholarly publishing companies. |
| 2021 | Wiley acquired Hindawi publishing firm for $298 million in cash to expand its open access journals portfolio. |
| 2020 | Zhongwei Shen began making initial complaints to police in Zhejiang Tongxiang regarding moral rights infringement by Wiley. |
| 2020 | Wiley had five of its journals' 2019 journal impact factor suspended from Journal Citation Reports due to unusual levels of self-citation, part of a broader sanction affecting 34 journals in total. |
| 2020 | Wiley reported $232 million in OPM revenue with 11% organic growth compared to the previous year. |
| 2020 | The entire editorial board of an unspecified journal resigned over a dispute with Wiley, citing issues with contract terms and the publisher's control over editorial appointments and decisions. |
| June 2020 | Wiley joined a group of publishers in filing a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, alleging copyright infringement through the library's e-book collection and claiming the digital lending was denying revenue to authors and publishers. |
| September 2019 | Wiley entered into a collaboration with IIM Lucknow to offer analytics courses specifically designed for finance executives. |
| January 18 2019 | Wiley signed a groundbreaking contract with Project DEAL, becoming the first publisher to establish an open access agreement with a leading research nation (Germany), enabling open access to scientific research for over 700 academic institutions. |
| 2018 | Wiley acquired The Learning House, further strengthening its position as a major OPM provider with 60 university partners and over 700 online programs. |
| 2018 | Wiley won a significant copyright litigation case in the Southern District of New York against Book Dog Books, with the court awarding over $39 million to Wiley and other textbook publishers for distributing counterfeit book copies. |
| 2018 | A majority of the editorial board of the journal Diversity & Distributions resigned after Wiley allegedly blocked the publication of a letter protesting the publisher's decision to make the journal entirely open access. |
| 2018 | Wiley and Hindawi announced plans to launch four additional fully open access journals as part of their ongoing collaboration. |
| 2017 | Wiley reported a gender pay gap analysis for its UK workforce, revealing a mean gender pay gap of 21.1% and a median gender pay gap of 21.5%. The company also disclosed significantly higher gender bonus gaps of 50.7% (median) and 42.3% (mean), attributing the disparity to predominantly male high earners. |
| 2016 | Wiley's Natural Resources Forum was one of six journals to receive the highest possible 'Five Wheel' impact rating from an SDG Impact Intensity journal rating system, analyzing data from 2016 to 2020. |
| 2016 | Wiley launched a worldwide partnership with Christian H. Cooper to create a program for Financial Risk Manager exam candidates, using Wiley's efficient learning platform and Cooper's legacy Financial Risk Manager product. |
| 2016 | Wiley acquired Atypon, the company that developed the Literatum platform used to implement the Wiley Online Library. |
| 2016 | Wiley initiated a collaboration with open access publisher Hindawi to convert nine of its journals to full open access. |
| 2015 | The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion establishing that a photo agency had legal standing to sue Wiley for using photos beyond the scope of its acquired license. |
| 2014 | The District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Wiley infringed on photographer Tom Bean's copyright by using his photos beyond the scope of the purchased license. This ruling was later affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. |
| 2013 | The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons case, applying the first-sale doctrine to copyrighted works made and sold abroad, effectively reversing the previous Second Circuit decision that had favored Wiley. |
| 2013 | A lawsuit by a stock photo agency against Wiley for alleged violation of a 1997 license was dismissed for procedural reasons. |
| 2013 | Wiley partnered with American Graphics Institute to create The Digital Classroom, an online education video and e-book subscription service. |
| June 2012 | Wiley announced the proposed closing of its Edinburgh facility in June 2013, intending to relocate journal content management activities to Oxford and Asia, which would result in laying off approximately 50 employees. |
| April 16 2012 | Wiley announced the establishment of Wiley Brasil Editora LTDA in São Paulo, Brazil, effective May 1, 2012. |
| February 17 2012 | Wiley acquired Inscape Holdings Inc., which provides DISC assessments and training for interpersonal business skills. |
| November 2011 | Wiley Education Services purchased Deltak for $220 million, expanding its Online Program Management (OPM) services. |
| December 2010 | Wiley opened an office in Dubai. |
| August 7 2010 | Wiley Online Library launched, replacing Wiley Interscience, providing access to over 4 million articles from 1,600 journals, 22,000 books, and various reference materials. |
| March 2010 | Wiley announced a reorganization of its Wiley-Blackwell central marketing operations that would lay off approximately 40 employees. |
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