(15 May 2024) Wiley has announced that it is closing 19 journals amid a massive influx of fake papers, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The publisher has retracted more than 11,300 “compromised” studies over the past two years. Source: Inside Higher Ed
(24 Apr 2024) Wiley today announced the 2024 release of its Wiley Identifier of Natural Products (AntiBase Library + ChemWindow). With an extensive collection of over 95,000 compounds, this growing natural products database serves as a powerful drug discovery screening tool to narrow down possible novel compounds having antimicrobial, antitumor, or other desired effects. Additionally, it…
(6 Dec 2023) Wiley will cease using the beleaguered Hindawi brand name, the publisher announced on an earnings call Wednesday morning. Wiley plans to integrate Hindawi’s approximately 200 journals into the rest of its portfolio by the middle of next year. Problems with Hindawi, the open access publisher that Wiley acquired in 2021, have cost…
(21 Mar 2023) Nineteen journals from the open-access publisher Hindawi were removed from Clarivate’s Web of Science Monday when the indexer refreshed its Master Journal List. The delistings follow a disclosure by Wiley, which bought Hindawi in 2021, that the company suspended publishing special issues for three months because of “compromised articles.” That lost the…
(9 Mar 2023) Hindawi, the open access publisher that Wiley acquired in 2021, temporarily suspended publishing special issues because of “compromised articles,” according to a press release announcing the company’s third quarter financial results. The announcement follows scrutiny from sleuths, and the publisher retracting hundreds of papers for manipulated peer review last September, after…
(18 Jan 2023) Wiley announced a new open access agreement with Joint University Librarians Advisory Committee (JULAC) in Hong Kong, starting January 1, 2023. This agreement, which represents Wiley’s first in Hong Kong, allows eligible users of the three participating JULAC libraries (Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, Hong Kong Baptist University Library, and the…
(9 Jan 2023) Wiley announced remarkable growth of an open access agreement in Japan by increasing from four to 18 participating institutions. Based on the success of the initial agreement by four Japanese institutions in 2022, a new agreement between Wiley and JUSTICE (Japan Alliance of University Library Consortia for E-Resources) allows 14 new universities…
(6 Jul 2022) Wiley, a global leader in research and education, today announced its continued investment in Oable by making the innovative open access (OA) workflow management solution available to 34 customers. Oable was developed by Knowledge Unlatched, which Wiley acquired in 2021 to advance both organizations’ shared commitment to make open access simple and easy…
(20 Apr 2022) The fundamental existence of academic libraries depends on how well they serve their library users. Supporting the faculty to meet their needs and in return, working together towards the common goal of meeting the institution’s objectives, has become paramount to the modern academic librarian in the 21st century. In a recent survey,…
(24 Feb 2022) Announcement from Wiley: We’re excited to announce a new partnership with the Wikipedia Library, a project of the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation, which will connect Wikipedia editors with full-text access to Wiley Online Library content to drive better citations and more accurate content on Wikipedia, one of the Internet’s most-visited websites. With millions of…