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Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and ChemPubSoc Europe, an association of 16 chemical societies, have announced the launch of ChemPlusChem, a multidisciplinary journal centering on chemistry.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. a global provider of content and workflow solutions in the areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional and personal development; and education today announced results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2012.

John Wiley & Sons (NYSE: JWa and JWb), a global provider of content and workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional and personal development; and education announced today that it will release its second quarter results prior to market open on Thursday, December 8, 2011.   In conjunction with the release, the Company has scheduled a conference call beginning at 10:00 a.m. EST that day to discuss the results.  

Wiley-Blackwell announced today it is a participant in the CrossMark service from CrossRef - a multi-publisher initiative to provide a standard way for readers to identify and locate the publisher-maintainedversion of a piece of content.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc and The Association of Applied Biologists (AAB) have launched Food and Energy Security, a new journal to meet the needs of authors and funders to publish international open access content in food and energy security.

Wiley-VCH today announced the launch of the journal Advanced Healthcare Materials, a new international scientific journal dedicated to publishing all aspects of materials science in medicine and biotechnology.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced an innovative venture to publish a new open access journal, Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, which will launch this fall.

Five major higher education publishers have entered into a settlement with the online tutoring site Student of Fortune, Inc. (www.studentoffortune.com) to resolve claims for copyright and trademark infringement.  The publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Cengage Learning, Inc., Pearson Education, Inc. and Elsevier Inc.

Wiley-VCH, part of the scientific and technical publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb) and the Chemical Society Located in Taipei have signed an agreement to closely cooperate and jointly publish the Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society. The journal will be available online from volume 2011 in Wiley Online Library, one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, used by 10 million people a month.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), and JISC Collections have successfully concluded a new three year NESLi2 agreement for the higher education and further education communities in the UK.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is launching the first mobile application for UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide, accessible via iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, as well as a version for Blackberry.

Wiley-Blackwell, the Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS) publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is pleased to announce a new partnership beginning in fall 2011 with the International Reading Association (IRA) to publish its three journals, The Reading Teacher, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, and Reading Research Quarterly.

The British Academy is strengthening its relationship with Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons Inc., with the creation of a major new prize for an outstanding contribution to economics.

The pioneering new institutional licensing agreement recently announced by Indiana University (IU) and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,  will use an innovative new model to deliver more engaging learning materials at a lower cost to students across all eight IU campuses.   For the first time on this scale, a leading research university will license access to course materials for its students via a per-section fee model. This innovative model will reduce costs to students while expanding access to those learning materials proven to engage students and improve their learning more effectively. 

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), is pleased to learn that the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011 with one half to Professor Saul Perlmutter and the other half to Professors Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), is pleased to learn that the award of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been confirmed by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet. The award is divided, with one half to the late Professor Ralph M. Steinman and the other half jointly to Professor Bruce A. Beutler and Dr. Jules A. Hoffmann. All three laureates are published Wiley authors.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons, Inc, has signed open access funding agreements with three European research organizations: the Max Planck Society in Germany, the FWF Austrian Science Fund, and Telethon, one of the largest biomedical non-profit organizations in Italy.

Wiley-Blackwell, the scientific, technical, medical and scholarly business of global publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., today announced the launch of the Wiley Job Network – a new online recruitment tool which enables employers to attract talented applicants from among the high-caliber users of Wiley Online Library’s products and services.

Peter Booth Wiley, Chairman of the Board, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: JWa and JWb), a global provider of content and workflow solutions in areas of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly research; professional and personal development; and education,  announced today that Wiley's shareholders have elected three new members to the publisher's Board of Directors effective today.  All three were elected for the first time.

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors at their meeting today declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.20 per share on its Class A and Class B Common Stock.