WILEY NEWS RELEASE

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

November 29, 2005

For Immediate Release



Contact: Susan Spilka

Wiley

201-748-6147

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Wiley Expands STM Publishing in Asia



Announces New STM Publishing Director for Asia Pacific



Hoboken, N.J., November 29, 2005 –John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 

(NYSE: JWa) (NYSE: JWb), announced today plans for the 

creation of a new scientific, technical, and medical (STM) 

publishing program to be located at Wiley’s Asian 

headquarters in Singapore. 



Wiley currently has three STM publishing programs located in 

Hoboken, New Jersey; Chichester, England; and Weinheim, 

Germany.  The Asian STM publishing program, which is 

scheduled to launch in early 2006, will become an integral 

part of Wiley’s global STM operations and will further 

enhance the role of Wiley Asia, the company’s already 

extensive sales and marketing presence in the region.   The 

new program will publish book and journal content from Asia 

for a worldwide audience, embracing Wiley’s global STM 

publishing strategies and standards to benefit from Asia’s 

recent emergence as an important source of STM content. 

Another goal of the initiative is to strengthen coverage of 

Asian content in existing Wiley publications from the U.S., 

U.K., and Germany. 



“We look forward to expanding our STM editorial presence in 

Asia,” said Steve Miron, Vice President, Wiley Asia and 

General Manager for Global STM Books. “It is an area where 

we see tremendous publishing and market opportunities.”



Wiley plans to increase the number of Asia-based members on 

the editorial boards of its journals and major reference 

works, and to strengthen and expand relationships with Asian 

scientific communities and scholarly societies. The company 

has already begun to venture into Asia-based journal 

publishing with the Chinese Journal of Chemistry, which is 

being distributed on behalf of the Chinese Chemical Society; 

Chemistry: An Asian Journal, a new title to be published 

jointly by Wiley-VCH and the German Chemistry Society 

(GDCh), and the Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Indian 

Chemical Societies; and The Chemical Record, which is 

managed by Wiley’s Tokyo office.



In connection with the expansion of this program, Wiley 

announced that Ann-Marie Halligan would be assuming the 

newly created position of STM Publishing Director, Asia 

Pacific.  She will be based in Wiley Asia headquarters in 

Singapore, beginning February 2006.  Ms. Halligan, who began 

her career at Wiley in 1985, most recently held the position 

of Editorial Director for Wiley’s Communications and 

Engineering Technology and Statistics program located in the 

company’s offices in Chichester. In the coming year, Wiley 

will develop an editorial staff in the region through the 

appointment of editors in China, Taiwan, Japan, and India. 



“We are delighted that Ann-Marie Halligan will assume the 

position of STM Publishing Director,” Miron added. “She has 

expert knowledge of Wiley publishing systems, having built a 

number of successful book and journal publishing programs 

over the years, and is ideally suited to this new position.”



The majority of Wiley’s STM content is available both in 

print and online through Wiley InterScience, the company’s 

online publishing platform.  Since its commercial launch in 

January 1999, Wiley InterScience 

(www.interscience.wiley.com) has earned its reputation as a 

world-leading Internet resource for quality research 

material promoting discovery across the spectrum of 

scientific, technical, medical and professional endeavors. 

Today Wiley InterScience features a vast reservoir of must-

have content from almost 2000 journals, books, reference 

works, databases, and Current Protocols laboratory manuals.



About Wiley

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., provides must-have 

content and services to customers worldwide. Its core 

businesses include scientific, technical, and medical 

journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and 

services; professional and consumer books and subscription 

services; and educational materials for undergraduate and 

graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley has 

publishing, marketing, and distribution centers in the 

United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The 

Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the 

symbols JWa and JWb. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed 

at http://www.wiley.com.



 

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