& sons founded 1922 country of origin united states headquarters location hoboken new jersey publication types books academic journals official website www.wiley.com wiley blackwell wiley blackwell is the international scientific technical medical and scholarly publishing business of john wiley & sons . it was formed by the merger of john wiley s global scientific technical and medical business with blackwell publishing after wiley took over the latter in 2007 . 1 as a learned society publisher wiley blackwell partners with around 750 societies and associations . it publishes nearly 1 500 peer reviewed journals and more than 1 500 new books annually in print and online as well as databases major reference works and laboratory protocols . wiley blackwell is based in hoboken new jersey united states and has offices in many international locations including boston oxford chichester berlin singapore melbourne tokyo and beijing among others . wiley blackwell publishes in a diverse range of academic and professional fields including in biology medicine physical sciences technology social science and the humanities . 2 access to more than 1 500 journals onlinebooks lab protocols electronic major reference works and other online products published by wiley blackwell is available through wiley online library 3 which replaced the previous platform wiley interscience in august 2010 . contents 1 blackwell publishing history 2 see also 3 references 4 external links blackwell publishing history edit blackwell publishing was formed by the 2001 merger of two oxford based academic publishing companies blackwell science founded 1939 as blackwell scientific publishing and blackwell publishers founded 1922 which had their origins in the nineteenth century blackwell s family bookshop and publishing business . the merger created the world s leading learned society publisher partnered with 665 academic and professional societies . blackwell published over 805 journals and 650 text and reference books in 2006 across a wide range of academic medical and professional subjects and had 990 staff members with offices in the united states uk australia china denmark germany singapore and japan . on november 17 2006 john wiley & sons announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire blackwell publishing . 4 the acquisition was completed in february 2007 at a purchase price of 572 million . blackwell publishing was merged into wiley s global scientific technical and medical business to create wiley blackwell . 1 from june 30 2008 the journals previously on blackwell synergy are delivered through wiley interscience . 5 see also edit list of journals published by wiley blackwell references edit a b about wiley blackwell . john wiley & sons inc. wiley blackwell inc. private company information businessweek . investing.businessweek.com . retrieved 21 november 2012 . wileyonlinelibrary.com wiley to acquire blackwell publishing holdings ltd. john wiley & sons inc. november 17 2006 interscience.wiley.com wiley blackwell . june 16 2008 . external links edit official website mary h. munroe 2004 . blackwell timeline . the academic publishing industry a story of merger and acquisition via northern illinois university . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wiley blackwell & oldid 741531264 categories academic publishing companiespublishing companies established in 1922companies based in oxfordcommercial digital librariespublishing companies of the united kingdomamerican companies established in 1922hidden categories use mdy dates from february 2012official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages deutsch fran aisnederlandsnorsk bokm lsrpskohrvatski svenska edit links this page was last modified on 28 september 2016 at 02 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view