Extended and integrated portfolio will support development of new services for chemists
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today that it has acquired the assets
of the FIZ Chemie Berlin, a leading provider of online database products
for organic and industrial chemists. The acquisition aligns with the
company’s long-term strategy to support research, learning, and
professional practice through high quality content and services. Wiley
is expanding its presence in Berlin with the new venture providing roles
for more than 30 skilled information professionals.
“This is an outcome that represents the best combination of public
investment and private enterprise, given Wiley’s deep roots in chemistry
publishing and its high-profile German and international chemistry
society partnerships,” said Christian Köhler-Ma, Leonhardt
Rechtsanwälte, Berlin, who managed the sale of the assets.
“The FIZ suite of databases and services are a great addition to Wiley’s
deep reservoir of chemical databases, journals, books and references.
The FIZ products and services will enable Wiley to build a new
generation of information products to help boost the productivity of
chemists,” said Steve Miron, Senior Vice President, Scientific,
Technical, Medical and Scholarly, Wiley.
The products include the ChemInform weekly abstracting
service and reaction database (CIRX), as well as the abstracting journalChemisches
Zentralblatt, the InfoTherm database of thermophysical
properties, and eLearning tools and services.
Dr. Jon Walmsley, Managing Director, Physical Sciences and Engineering,
said, “The acquisition will position Wiley’s premier Chemistry
publishing program and its society partners for future growth. This
portfolio, which includes such eminent society journals as Angewandte
Chemie (GDCh) and European Journal of Organic Chemistry (ChemPubSocEurope),
as well as book and reference brands like Ullmann’s Encyclopedia
of Industrial Chemistry and Larock’s Comprehensive
Organic Transformations will provide a powerhouse of brands with
which to leverage the capabilities of the new operation. In addition we
will make significant investments in the sales and marketing of the
products.”
About Wiley:
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of
information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people
around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Wiley
and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 450
Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or
Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.
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solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly
research; professional development; and education. Our core businesses
produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals,
reference works, books, database services, and advertising; professional
books, subscription products, certification and training services and
online applications; and education content and services including
integrated online teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and
graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are
located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe,
Asia, Canada, and Australia. The Company's Web site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com.
The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols
JWa and JWb.
About Wiley-VCH:
Wiley-VCH is a publishing center of excellence and branded imprint of
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.’s scientific and technical publishing business.
Founded in 1921 by German chemical societies and associations, Wiley-VCH
is one of the leading science publishers in Germany. Wiley-VCH works in
close co-operation with both the German Chemical Society (GDCH) and a
continuously growing number of national and international scientific
societies and associations, including ChemPubSocEurope (currently
comprising 16 European chemical societies), ACES (its counterpart in
Asia), the German Physical Society DPG, the German Research Foundation
DFG, EMBO, and many more. Wiley-VCH, which has been part of John Wiley &
Sons, Inc. since 1996, publishes English- and German-language scientific
and technical books, journals, and data collections in print and online,
featuring leading authors and researchers in chemistry, physics and
materials science from all over the world. For more information, please
visit www.wiley-vch.de
or our online platform, Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com),
one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of
online resources, covering life, health, social and physical sciences,
and humanities.
