Specializing in successful society partnerships
Formed in 2007 by the merger of Blackwell Publishing with John Wiley & Sons’ Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS) business, Wiley-Blackwell proudly partners with more than 700 prestigious societies representing over 1,000,000 members globally- from small societies and think tanks to large international associations and not-for-profits. Well over half our 1,500+ peer-reviewed scholarly journals are published on behalf of these organizations, as well as numerous other publications, including books, databases, and other online portals.
As the world’s foremost society publisher, Wiley-Blackwell holds society partnership as a core value—one that informs every aspect of our publishing approach. From day-to-day editorial, production, and marketing operations to long-term strategic planning and development, we make it our business to offer our society partners and their journals the most informed, responsive, innovative, professional, financially responsible and competitive publishing services in the industry.
Nurturing vibrant partnerships through communication and collaboration
At Wiley-Blackwell, we understand the importance of strong communication between every society and its publisher. As a result, our partners get the best of both worlds: the reach and resources of a large global publisher with the attentive, hands-on support of a much smaller company.
Our editorial, production, marketing, and membership experts collaborate closely with you and your colleagues to provide society executives, journal editors, members, and authors with exceptional, flexible service focused on your unique needs.
Collaborating on strategic journal and society development
Wiley-Blackwell welcomes and encourages frequent opportunities to meet with society executives and journal editors for regular information-sharing and strategy sessions. Together, we can develop shared priorities, set realistic goals for your society’s publishing program, shape the strategic plans to achieve them, and monitor our progress through a collaborative process of strategic journal and society development.
Achieving success through strategic sales and marketing
More than 300 Wiley-Blackwell sales and marketing professionals worldwide operate out of 32 international locations, including 18 offices throughout Asia, to maximize opportunities for your society’s journal in an increasingly complex global marketplace.
In addition to promoting our high-quality journals through subject-level marketing, Wiley-Blackwell invests in targeted, journal-specific sales and marketing strategies to preserve and protect revenues – from subscriptions, licenses, advertising and other sales, etc – and to expand online access, increase global readership, and generate submissions for each individual society journal.
Setting the standard for excellence in production
With a deep, specialized knowledge of the periodicals production and distribution process, Wiley-Blackwell’s global content management team provides exceptionally high-quality service and advice to editors, authors, and readers. The production editor assigned to your journal will work closely with your editorial team to design a schedule and tailor procedures to meet their precise needs. From receipt of copy through copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, producing electronic files, conducting quality assurance, printing, binding, and posting online, Wiley-Blackwell will oversee every step of the production process for each journal.
Supporting society members through state-of-the-art membership services
Behind your small, dedicated publishing team stands Wiley-Blackwell’s broader society membership team who supply top-rated customer assistance, fulfillment operations, and membership services 24-hours-a-day, five days a week, around the world.
Taking a leading role in scholarly communications
Wiley takes its responsibility to the broader research and information communities seriously, and plays a leading role in building best practice and steering publishing so that it meets the long-term needs of scholarly communications. We understand the importance of issues like long-term archiving of digital content, the development of recognized standards for cross-referencing content and reporting usage, the opportunity that online access provides in closing the knowledge gap with developing countries, and the imperative to reduce the environmental impact of our activities. Wiley has taken a leadership role in the industry to work on and resolve issues like these on behalf of our society partners.
Focusing on your society’s unique needs to provide exceptional publishing service
Society partnerships are the heart of Wiley-Blackwell’s journal publishing business.
Recognized industry-wide as the Society Publisher of choice, Wiley-Blackwell is dedicated to strong, successful society partnerships built on trust and transparency. Within the context of a powerful global organization, Wiley-Blackwell offers an exceptional publishing service specifically designed to help you and your editorial board to achieve your publishing objectives.
Our publishing partners span all shapes and sizes – from local organizations to international ones, from small scholarly associations to major professional ones – and all regions of the world. They currently include the American Anthropological Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Finance Association, the American Neurological Association, the Australian Dental Association, The Cochrane Library, the Ecological Society of Australia, the Federation of European Microbiological Societies, the German Chemical Society, the IEEE, the Japan Cancer Association, the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, the New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Theta Tau (the Nursing Honor Society), and many more.
For more information about how you can join this elite group of scholarly and professional associations, or to request a full proposal, please contact:
Life Sciences: Mike Davis, Managing Director
Medical: Andy Robinson, Managing Director
Physical Sciences: Steve Miron, Managing Director
Professional: Jon Walmsley, Managing Director
Social Sciences & Humanities: Philip Carpenter, Managing Director
