of this article is disputed . relevant discussion may be found on the talk page . please do not remove this message until conditions to do so are met . may 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message john wiley & sons status active traded as nyse jw.a founded 1807 ; 209 years ago 1807 new york city united states founder charles wiley country of origin united states headquarters location hoboken new jersey distribution worldwide nonfiction topics science technology medicine professional development higher education revenue us 1.8 billion fy 2012 1 number of employees 4 900 2 official website www.wiley.com john wiley & sons inc. also referred to as wiley nyse jw.a is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers students and instructors in higher education and researchers and practitioners in scientific technical medical and scholarly fields . the company produces books journals and encyclopedias in print and electronically as well as online products and services 3 training materials and educational materials for undergraduate graduate and continuing education students . 4 founded in 1807 wiley is also known for publishing for dummies . as of 2015 the company had 4 900 employees and a revenue of 1.8 billion . 1 contents 1 history 2 governance and operations 3 brands and partnerships 4 worldwide partnership with christian h. cooper 5 current initiatives 5.1 higher education 5.2 medicine 5.3 architecture and design 6 acquisition of blackwell publishing 7 wiley online library 8 corporate culture 9 apple controversy 10 kirtsaeng v. john wiley & sons 11 strategic acquisition and divestiture 12 high growth and emerging markets 13 references 14 bibliography 15 external links history edit the hoboken new jersey headquarters wiley was established in 1807 when charles wiley opened a print shop in manhattan . the company was the publisher of such 19th century american literary figures as james fenimore cooper washington irving herman melville and edgar allan poe as well as of legal religious and other non fiction titles . wiley later shifted its focus to scientific technical and engineering subject areas abandoning its literary interests . 5 charles wiley s son john born in flatbush long island 4 october 1808 ; died in east orange new jersey 21 february 1891 took over the business when his father died in 1826 . the firm was successively named wiley lane & co. then wiley & putnam and then john wiley . the company acquired its present name in 1876 when john s second son william h. wiley joined his brother charles in the business . 5 6 through the 20th century the company expanded its publishing activities the sciences and higher education . since the establishment of the nobel prize in 1901 wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 450 nobel laureates in every category in which the prize is awarded . 5 one of the world s oldest independent publishing companies wiley marked its bicentennial in 2007 with a year long celebration hosting festivities that spanned four continents and ten countries and included such highlights as ringing the closing bell at the new york stock exchange on may 1 . in conjunction with the anniversary the company published knowledge for generations wiley and the global publishing industry 1807 2007 depicting wiley s pivotal role in the evolution of publishing against a social cultural and economic backdrop . wiley has also created an online community called wiley living history offering excerpts from knowledge for generations and a forum for visitors and wiley employees to post their comments and anecdotes . governance and operations edit while the company is led by an independent management team and board of directors the involvement of the wiley family is ongoing with sixth generation members and siblings peter booth wiley as the non executive chairman of the board and bradford wiley ii as a director and past chairman of the board . seventh generation members jesse and nate wiley work in the company s professional trade and scientific technical medical and scholarly businesses respectively . wiley has been publicly owned since 1962 and listed on the new york stock exchange since 1995 ; its stock is traded under the symbols nyse jw.a and nyse jw.b . wiley s operations are organized into three business divisions scientific technical medical and scholarly stms also known as wiley blackwell professional development global education the company has approximately 5 000 employees worldwide with headquarters in hoboken new jersey since 2002 . brands and partnerships edit the old logo of sybex a wiley brand of computer books wiley s professional development brands include for dummies jossey bass pfeiffer wrox press j.k. lasser sybex fisher investments press and bloomberg press . the stms business is also known as wiley blackwell formed following the acquisition of blackwell publishing in february 2007 . brands include the cochrane library and more than 1 500 journals . the wileyplus brand refers to an online higher education product . wiley has publishing alliances with partners including microsoft cfa institute the culinary institute of america the american institute of architects the national geographic society and the institute of electrical and electronics engineers ieee . wiley blackwell also publishes journals on behalf of more than 700 professional and scholarly society partners including the new york academy of sciences american cancer society the physiological society british ecological society american association of anatomists and the london school of economics and political science making it the world s largest society publisher . 7 wiley partners with greycampus to provide professional learning solutions around big data and digital literacy . 8 wiley has also partnered with five other higher education publishers to create coursesmart a company developed to sell college textbooks in etextbook format on a common platform . 9 in 2002 wiley created a partnership with french publisher anuman interactive in order to launch a series of e books adapted from the for dummies collection . 10 worldwide partnership with christian h. cooper edit in 2016 wiley launched a worldwide partnership with christian h. cooper to create a program for candidates taking the financial risk manager exam offered by global association of risk professionals . the program will be built on the existing wiley efficient learning platform and christian s legacy financial risk manager product . the new partnership is built on the view the frm designation will rapidly grow to be one of the premier financial designations for practitioners that will track the growth of the chartered financial analyst designation . the program will serve tens of thousands of frm candidates worldwide and is based on the adaptive learning technology of wiley s efficient learning platform and christian s unique writing style and legacy book series . 11 current initiatives edit with the integration of digital technology and the traditional print medium wiley has stated that in the near future its customers will be able to search across all its content regardless of original medium and assemble a custom product in the format of choice . 12 web resources are also enabling new types of publisher customer interactions within the company s various businesses . higher education edit higher education s wileyplus is an online product that combines electronic versions of texts with media resources and tools for instructors and students . it is intended to provide a single source from which instructors can manage their courses create presentations and assign and grade homework and tests ; students can receive hints and explanations as they work on homework and link back to relevant sections of the text . wiley custom select launched in february 2009 as a custom textbook system allowing instructors to combine content from different wiley textbooks and lab manuals and add in their own material . the company has begun to make content from its stms business available to instructors through the system with content from its professional trade business to follow . 13 medicine edit in january 2008 wiley launched a new version of its evidence based medicine ebm product infopoems with inforetriever under the name essential evidence plus providing primary care clinicians with point of care access to the most extensive source of ebm information 14 via their pdas handheld devices and desktop computers . essential evidence plus includes the infopoems daily ebm content alerting service and two new content resources ebm guidelines a collection of practice guidelines evidence summaries and images and e essential evidence a reference for general practitioners nurses and physician assistants providing first contact care . clarification needed architecture and design edit in october 2008 wiley launched a new online service providing ceu pdh credits to architects and designers . the initial courses are adapted from wiley books extending their reach into the digital space . wiley is an accredited aia continuing education provider . citation needed acquisition of blackwell publishing edit wiley s scientific technical and medical business was significantly expanded by the acquisition of blackwell publishing in february 2007 . 15 the combined business named scientific technical medical and scholarly also known as wiley blackwell publishes in print and online 1 400 scholarly peer reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books major reference works databases and laboratory manuals in the life and physical sciences medicine and allied health engineering the humanities and the social sciences . through a backfile initiative completed in 2007 8.2 million pages of journal content have been made available online a collection dating back to 1799 . wiley blackwell also publishes on behalf of about 700 professional and scholarly societies ; among them are the american cancer society acs for which it publishes cancer the flagship acs journal ; the sigma theta tau international honor society of nursing ; and the american anthropological association . other major journals published include angewandte chemie advanced materials hepatology international finance and liver transplantation . 16 launched commercially in 1999 wiley interscience provided online access to wiley journals major reference works and books including backfile content . journals previously from blackwell publishing were available online from blackwell synergy until they were integrated into wiley interscience on june 30 2008 . in december 2007 wiley also began distributing its technical titles through the safari books online e reference service . wiley online library edit wiley online library is a subscription based library of john wiley & sons that launched on august 7 2010 replacing wiley interscience . 17 it is a collection of online resources covering life health and physical sciences as well as social science and the humanities . to its members wiley online library delivers access to over 4 million articles from 1 500 journals more than 14 000 books and hundreds of reference works laboratory protocols and databases from john wiley & sons and its imprints including wiley blackwell wiley vch and jossey bass . wiley uses fake dois to prevent scraping . 18 corporate culture edit in 2008 wiley was named for the second consecutive year to forbes magazine s annual list of the 400 best big companies in america . in 2007 book business magazine cited wiley as one of the 20 best book publishing companies to work for . for two consecutive years 2006 and 2005 fortune magazine named wiley one of the 100 best companies to work for . wiley canada was named to canadian business magazine s 2006 list of best workplaces in canada and wiley australia has received the australian government s employer of choice for women citation every year since its inception in 2001 . in 2004 wiley was named to the u.s. environmental protection agency s best workplaces for commuters list . working mother magazine in 2003 listed wiley as one of the 100 best companies for working mothers and that same year the company received the enterprise award from the new jersey business & industry association in recognition of its contribution to the state s economic growth . in 1998 financial times