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Is Digital-first Publishing Finally a Reality? An Interview with Liz Ferguson of Wiley

We’re finally seeing a move to truly digital-first publishing systems and in today’s post Alice Meadows interviews Liz Ferguson of Wiley about this transition, including their own Research Exchange platform.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • Oct 1, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Matthew Kissner

Robert Harington talks to Matt Kissner, CEO of Wiley, in this series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and for-profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 2, 2025
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

Guest Post — Reading the Leaves of Publishing Speed: The Cases of Hindawi, Frontiers, and PLOS

The analysis of operational data is complex, dull, and unrewarding. It is also necessary. Three case studies of major journals and portfolios explain why.

  • By Christos Petrou
  • May 29, 2025
  • 25 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Wiley Leans into AI. The Community Should Lean with Them.

An interview with Wiley SVP Josh Jarrett about their work improving publishing processes with AI and licensing content for AI applications.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 31, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Ensuring attribution is critical when licensing content to AI developers

Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Sep 4, 2024
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Can You Really Know Your Customer If You Only See Them One Silo At A Time?

Functional silos lead to customer data silos. Can you get a full view of customer engagement without re-architecting your whole organization?

  • By Ann Michael, Laura Harvey, Andrew Smeall, Dustin Smith
  • Oct 26, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

Guest Post — Addressing Paper Mills and a Way Forward for Journal Security

Wiley’s Jay Flynn discusses the impact that paper mills had on Hindawi’s publishing program and how all stakeholders must collaborate to address behaviors that undermine research integrity.

  • By Jay Flynn
  • Apr 4, 2023
  • 26 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Will Humanities and Social Sciences Publishing Consolidate?

Much of the scholarly publishing sector has already experienced a flight to scale. Today, Roger Schonfeld asks: Is a major consolidation among humanities and social sciences publishers coming next?

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Feb 22, 2023
  • 22 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Chefs de Cuisine: Perspectives from Publishing’s Top Table — Jay Flynn

Robert Harington talks to Jay Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research at Wiley, in this new series of perspectives from some of Publishing’s leaders across the non-profit and profit sectors of our industry.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 6, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The Beginning of the End of Publisher-Society Partner Contracts

Does the traditional society-publisher partnership contract make sense in an APC-fueled OA market? Angela Cochran reviews the new Wiley Partner Solutions offering and what that might mean for the future of contracts and guarantees.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Oct 24, 2022
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect as Content Supercontinent? 

Does today’s news of Wiley etc. syndicating to ScienceDirect mean Elsevier is developing a supercontinent to compete with ResearchGate and Google Scholar? 

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 18, 2022
  • 20 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

How One Society Is Supporting Peer Review Excellence in their Community: An Interview with Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing

In today’s post, Alice Meadows talks to Laura Feetham of IOP Publishing about their work to improve peer review quality in the physical sciences through their ongoing peer review excellence program.

  • By Alice Meadows
  • May 11, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Wiley Acquires Hindawi: An Interview with Judy Verses and Liz Ferguson

Last week Wiley acquired Hindawi for $298M or a multiple of 7.45 based on 2020 Hindawi revenue. Hear why and what comes next from Wiley’s EVP of Research, Judy Verses, and VP of Open Research, Liz Ferguson.

  • By Ann Michael
  • Jan 11, 2021
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

The 360° Competitor

The defining aspect of such an organization is that it operates as an industry nexus.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Oct 5, 2020
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Publishers Invest in Preprints

Major scholarly publishers have made substantial investments in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld, Oya Y. Rieger
  • May 27, 2020
  • 25 Comments
  • Time To Read: 11 mins

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