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John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that Roitt’s Essential Immunology, 12th Edition, has won the prestigious British Medical Association (BMA) Book of the Year Award.

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2012 jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Professor Shinya Yamanaka for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent; both are published Wiley authors. 

Acquisition will add scalable capabilities and expertise and open up adjacent markets

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa, JWb), a global provider of content and workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional development; and education announced today that it has agreed to acquire Deltak.edu, LLC, a privately held Chicago-based leader in higher education and online learning services, for $220 million.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., recently announced a collaboration with the American Dental Association (ADA) to publish the latest book in their “Practical Guide Series,” The ADA Practical Guide to Patients with Medical Conditions.

Wiley Job Network has been named as one of the top ten recruitment sites to watch in Outsell's Online Recruitment 2012 Market Size, Share & Forecast report

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and The Physiological Society have announced the renewal of their publishing partnership, building on over eight years of collaboration. The renewed partnership will ensure the society’s titles, The Journal of Physiology and Experimental Physiology, continue to develop as thought leaders of physiological research.

Peter Booth Wiley, Chairman of the Board of Directors, announced today the election of Jesse C. Wiley, a seventh-generation descendant of the company’s founder to the Board; the retirement of Bradford Wiley II, a Board member since 1979 and its Chairman from 1993-2002; and the retirement of Warren J. Baker, a Board member since 1993.

The WILEY LEARNING INSTITUTE™(www.WileyLearningInstitute.com) is now offering faculty & campus leaders the opportunity to learn from internationally recognized speakers and thought leaders. 

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa & JWb), announced that the Board of Directors at their meeting today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.24 per share on its Class A and Class B Common Stock, payable on October 16, 2012 to shareholders of record on October 1, 2012.

Wiley has announced the signing of a new collaboration agreement between Biotechnology Journal and the Asian Federation of Biotechnology.

Interactive Features from Kno Bring Major Higher Ed Textbook Publisher’s Content to Life

Kno, a pioneer in education software, announced that it has partnered with leading global publishing company, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa, JWb), to provide more choice for college students heading back to school this fall. The new partnership with Wiley’s Global Education business will provide Kno with a range of higher education digital content, including top titles from business, engineering, mechanics, organic chemistry, physics, and trigonometry. Kno offers more than 200,000 interactive K-12 and university digital titles from over 65 textbook publishers. Kno textbooks are available for the iPad, Android, Web and Windows 7.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. a global provider of knowledge and knowledge-based services in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional practice; and global education today announced results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2013.

Wiley launches WileyCPA.com, a new website that will display Wiley’s worldwide, best-selling CPA Exam Review guides available as digital tools.

Wiley announced today that it will release its first quarter results prior to market open on Monday, September 10, 2012.  In conjunction with the release, the Company has scheduled a conference call beginning at 10 a.m. EDT that day to discuss the results. 

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., announced today its new membership of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).

Australian patients and their health care practitioners will benefit from ongoing access to The Cochrane Library, an online resource published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., on behalf of The Cochrane Collaboration, that features over 5000 published systematic reviews of evidence for health care interventions; ranging from surgical procedures and drugs to behavioural therapies and preventive care. Cochrane reviews provide independent high-quality evidence to aid in health care decision making.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced that the inaugural Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award will be issued today to Professor Christopher Bielawski at the Fall American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Philadelphia, PA.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., won 23 APEX awards in categories ranging from layout, writing, overall excellence and, for the first time, Web site content, writing, and design. Wiley received more awards overall than any other publishing house, company, or association.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced revised licensing arrangements for proprietary journals published under the Wiley Open Access program. The journals will adopt the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) licence which allows commercial use of published articles.

On March 7, 2012, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa, JWb), announced that it intends to explore opportunities to sell a number of its consumer print and digital publishing assets in its Professional/Trade business as they no longer align with the company’s long-term business strategy. Those assets include travel (including the well-known Frommer’s brand), culinary, general interest, nautical, pets, crafts, Webster’s New World, and CliffsNotes. On August 10, 2012, Wiley entered into a definitive agreement to sell all of its travel assets, including all of its interests in the Frommer's brand, to Google.