Wiley
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Wiley is a large publishing company that specializes in science and higher education. According to their website[1], the advantages of Wiley include:
- Global brands that are highly regarded by influential communities of interest
- Leading positions in targeted segments of attractive markets
- Deep reservoir of "must-have" content, benefiting from Web-enabled opportunities
- Strong financial characteristics, including significant free cash flow, strong balance sheet, and solid earnings growth
- Emphasis on businesses with continuity characteristics that generate predictable revenues, earnings, and cash flow
- Proven track record with acquisitions
- Ability to capitalize on global opportunities
- Active stock repurchase program
- Stable leadership team and independent Board of Directors distinguished by their longstanding commitment to effective governance, and the integrity of reported financial results
- Performance-driven, collaborative culture has established Wiley as "the place to be" for authors, customers, employees, and partners
Wiley maintains an online presence at Wiley Interscience, which practices cloaking.
Along with Elsevier and the American Chemical Society, Wiley solicited input from lobbyist Eric Dezenhall in July 2006.[2] Dezenhall advised the publishers on strategies for combating open access, strategies which then became the basic operational plan of PRISM. According to Nature,
- In an enthusiastic e-mail sent to colleagues after the meeting, Susan Spilka, Wiley's director of corporate communications, said Dezenhall explained that publishers had acted too defensively on the free-information issue and worried too much about making precise statements. Dezenhall noted that if the other side is on the defensive, it doesn't matter if they can discredit your statements, she added: "Media messaging is not the same as intellectual debate".[2]
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References
- ↑ Wiley, Why Invest in Wiley?
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jim Giles, PR's 'pit bull' takes on open access: Journal publishers lock horns with free-information movement, Nature, 24 January 2007; doi:10.1038/445347a
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