Online Books, As the Customer Likes Them

Since its commercial launch in 1999, Wiley InterScience has become a premier source for online research material across the range of scientific, technical, medical, and professional fields, offering journals, online books, major reference works, databases, Cochrane Systematic Reviews, and Current Protocols laboratory manuals.

This year,we re-launched our Wiley InterScience OnlineBooks™ sales model to address the collection development and budgetary needs of our library customers. We now offer two new options that provide maximum flexibility and value. The “One Time Fee Option” enables customers to build customized collections on a title-by-title basis, with permanent access, selecting from the nearly 1,200 online book titles available through Wiley InterScience. The “Flexi-Subscription Option,” a “lease to buy” option with reduced up-front costs, provides one year's access to any custom-selected group of titles, and ongoing access to any title subscribed to for three consecutive years.

Leading the Way on the Web

Wiley is taking the lead in industry initiatives and tapping new resources to ensure that our customers find the Wiley content they need quickly and easily.

To improve the research pathway through seamless and efficient content discovery, Wiley has embarked on an ambitious program to digitize all of its legacy journal holdings, dating back to the 1800s. This initiative is slated for completion in 2007, in conjunction with the company's 200th Anniversary. The completed backfile collection will comprise over 7.5 million pages — one of the largest archives of its kind issued by a single publisher.

Wiley is collaborating with other STM publishers and the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association, and the American Heart Association to launch the pilot of patientINFORM, a new resource that allows health organizations to provide patients and others with the latest medical research, supplemented with comprehensive information to help them interpret these fast-moving developments. The Company is also one of the driving forces behind CrossRef Search, an initiative developed by CrossRef, the collaborative reference-linking service of which Wiley was a co-founder. CrossRef Search enables filtered Google searches that include only the scholarly research content of the participating publishers.

Our customers can now preview our products online through our participation in online search services such as Amazon.com's Search Inside the Book and Google Print. Search Inside the Book delivers a selected portion of a book that can be viewed in PDF format, with accompanying links that enable purchase through Amazon.com; sales of the Wiley titles in this program are up by an average of 11% in the past fiscal year. Google Print is a similar feature accessed as a search result. Copy-and-paste and print functions are proscribed by both services, ensuring that copyright is honored. We continue to explore such collaborations with emerging enterprises in the online arena.