John Wiley and Sons Inc., (NYSE:JWA) (NYSE:JWB) is pleased to announce
the migration of Wiley Online Library to Atypon’s Literatum online
publishing platform. This transition reinforces Wiley’s commitment to
enabling the success of its customers and partners while advancing
research, discovery, and learning.
The new Wiley Online Library provides a best-in-class online experience
for researchers, connecting them to the most relevant scholarly content
to support their research goals. Wiley Online Library is home to one of
the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collections of online
resources, including content from life, health, physical, and social
sciences, as well as the humanities. It supports and delivers access to
over 6 million articles, 1,600 journals, 200 reference works, and 21,000
online books.
The migration to Literatum provides an optimized online research
experience allowing users to discover and access the extensive breadth
of scholarly content on Wiley
Online Library. The new platform features predictive search and
filters to quickly surface the most relevant content, prominent
institutional branding, automated recommendations for related articles,
and a fully mobile, responsive design and navigation supporting research
on any device.
“Literatum reflects the combined input and business needs of the
hundreds of other publishers and societies whose content we host, and
that comprehensive functionality will now benefit the entire community
of societies and researchers who use Wiley Online Library,” said
Georgios Papadopoulos, Atypon’s Founder and CEO. “Similarly, all members
of the Literatum community will benefit from enhancements that Wiley
makes to the platform.”
Executive Vice President of Research at Wiley, Judy Verses, stressed the
company’s mission to provide researchers with the critical tools
necessary to advance their research. “Researchers are at the core of our
mission. We will continue to enhance our services and platform to drive
our users, customers and partners to the forefront of research.”
Additional Information
About Atypon
Atypon was founded in 1996, and its online publishing platform,
Literatum, has been in continuous development since then. The platform
allows scholarly societies and publishers to quickly and
cost-effectively update their publication websites, as well as build new
ones, while prioritizing their brand and users’ experience. The platform
supports all content types, including articles, books, audio, video, and
interactive applications. It also offers enhanced search and discovery
interfaces; a full suite of tools for onsite and offsite behavioral
marketing; actionable insight into content usage and reader behavior;
and a built-in eCommerce module with unlimited sales and subscription
models. Atypon’s continual investment in R&D and new engineering talent
regularly yields new features that are deployed to all Atypon customers.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Atypon has offices and development
hubs across the United States, Europe, and Jordan. www.atypon.com.
About Wiley
Wiley, a global research and learning company, helps people and
organizations develop the skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Our
online scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, combined
with our digital learning, assessment and certification solutions, help
universities, learned societies, businesses, governments and individuals
increase the academic and professional impact of their work. For more
than 210 years, we have delivered consistent performance to our
stakeholders. The company's website can be accessed at www.wiley.com.
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