SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL, AND MEDICAL

Products

• Journals, encyclopedias, books, databases, and online products and services in medical sciences, chemistry, statistics and mathematics, electrical and electronics engineering, and telecommunications.

Customers

• Academic and corporate librarians serving researchers, clinicians, students, and professors worldwide.

Distribution

• Multiple channels including libraries, library consortia, subscription agents, bookstores, online booksellers, and direct sales to customers.

Key Brands/Franchises

• Wiley, Wiley InterScience, Wiley-VCH, Wiley-Liss.

Fiscal Year 2004 Highlights

• Increased our worldwide STM revenue by 10% to $340 million.
• Achieved healthy Wiley InterScience growth through new and renewed licenses, additional content, and enhanced capabilities. The number of journal articles viewed increased by 39%.
• Introduced new online databases, including the Organic Syntheses Database, the Database of Polymer Properties, and Organic Reactions.
• Launched the Angewandte Chemie Backfile Collection and the Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Biophysics Backfile Collection.
• Broadened our Pay-Per-View and Article Select options to include online reference works.
• Continued our growth in society journal publishing, signing publishing agreements with the Society of Plastics Engineers and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
• Launched new journals in Germany, including Engineering in Life Sciences and Laser Physics Letters.
• Acquired European Transactions in Electrical Power, a bimonthly primary research journal published in collaboration with several European societies, and Microscopy and Analysis, a bimonthly magazine.
• Renewed our license agreement with the National Electronic Library for Health of the National Health Service that enables broad access to the Cochrane Systematic Review in the U.K.
• Launched a Web site for the European Peptide Society (www.eurpepsoc.com) and added new revenue-generating features for two community-of-interest portals, spectroscopyNOW.com and separationsNOW.com.
• Partnered with Merck & Co. to become the exclusive North American distributor of four professional handbooks, including The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.