Announcing Wiley InterScience.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1997--Charles R. Ellis ELLIS - EuLisp LInda System. An object-oriented Linda system written for EuLisp. "Using Object-Oriented Mechanisms to Describe Linda", P. Broadbery <pab@maths.bath.ac.uk> et al, in Linda-Like Systems and Their Implementation, G. Wilson ed, U Edinburgh TR 91-13, 1991. , President and Chief Executive Officer of John Wiley John Wiley may refer to:
See: New York Stock Exchange : JW.A and JW.B) the global publishing company, today announced the launch of Wiley InterScience, a service which will provide access to nearly all of the company's more than 400 scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals over the World Wide Web. Searchable contents listings, abstracts, and informative Web sites for the majority of Wiley's journal program, together with open access to the full-text electronic files of 50 journals, are scheduled to go online Oct. 1 in the pilot phase of this initiative. Other journals will have full-text presentation phased in through 1997 and 1998. The company will continue to publish its journals in print as well, and is embarking on this electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. initiative to augment aug·ment v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: its strengths in scientific, technical and medical publishing, "Demand for important, reliable, and timely scientific, technical, medical, and professional information continues to increase worldwide. We are committed to providing the information our customers need and supplying it via the delivery mechanisms they prefer, whether in print or electronic form," said Ellis. "Our objective in launching Wiley InterScience is to exploit fully the potential of online publishing by providing enhancements to our journals and other technical and reference publications to make them more useful to research scientists and practitioners," he continued. These enhancements include desktop access, ease of navigation, broad-ranging content, sophisticated search tolls that can be customized, and the capability to retrieve, annotate annotate - annotation , and print individual abstracts and articles. Access to Wiley InterScience will be open without charge to customers for a limited period of time. During this initial pilot period, Wiley will invite its authors, editors, subscribers, and registered guest users to provide feedback as the company develops its Internet journal publishing activities. The marketplace feedback will enable Wiley to enhance and enrich its service offering to make it of broad use to the scholarly community. After the initial period of open access, Wiley InterScience journal content will be available on a subscription basis. "Because many libraries and institutional subscribers will want both print and electronic access, at least initially, we will offer customers a number of options. Our objective is for Wiley InterScience to make technological and economic sense for our customers as well as for us," explained Ellis. Important features of the Wiley InterScience service, which will be located at http://www.interscience.wiley.com, will include a search capability across the entire Wiley journals list (tables of contents and current abstracts) for articles of interest, and a personal home page on which each user can activate automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. search procedures and store favorite journals, articles, search criteria, and notations. Users will be able to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and print articles in which illustrations, art, tables, and charts are fully integrated with text. In addition, each journal publication will have its own Web site that will provide detailed information about the journal, with links to related products and external sites of interest. Wiley InterScience will provide a mechanism by which any researcher anywhere in the world can locate information about the content of Wiley journals, how to purchase them, and how to contribute articles for peer review. Wiley has been collaborating with Zuno, a Mitsubishi Electric Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (三菱電機株式会社 Company based in London and Boston, which developed the innovative software application Wiley has used to create Wiley InterScience. Zuno Digital Publisher (ZDP ZDP Zero Dividend Preference Share (UK) ZDP Zamin Dis Pars (Iran) ZDP Zero Defect Program ZDP ZeroDayPhoto (Danville, CA) ZDP Zeta Delta Phi ) is a component-based software system for organizing, managing, and publishing information and journals over the Web and gives publishers tools to create new and dynamic electronic products and services for their customers. ZDP is customizable, meaning Wiley has developed its own "look and feel" for the service and has implemented numerous business models for different types of customers and content. Wiley pioneered the first high-quality interactive peer-reviewed STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. journal on the Internet, Computer Aided Surgery (originally called the Journal of Image Guided Surgery), and has recently introduced online versions of other journals, including Cancer Online, the Internet version of the journal Cancer, which Wiley publishes on behalf of the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, . By launching Wiley InterScience, Wiley is reconfirming its commitment to the future of the journals business and its intention to remain at the vanguard Vanguard Any of three unmanned U.S. experimental satellites. Vanguard I (1958), the second U.S. satellite placed in orbit around Earth (after Explorer 1), was a tiny 3.25-lb (1.47-kg) sphere with two radio transmitters. of STM publishing. Wiley is in the very front rank of international STM publishers. STM publishing now accounts for approximately 45% of the company's worldwide revenues. Wiley continues to invest in this business to support its growth. Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons Inc., is an independent, global publishing company specializing in scientific and technical books and journals, textbooks and educational materials for colleges and universities, as well as professional and consumer books and subscription services. Wiley has publishing, marketing, and distribution centers located in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Wiley's Internet site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com CONTACT: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Susan Spilka (U.S.), 212/850-6147 sspilka@qm.jwiley.com or Michael Darden (U.S.), 212/850-6484 mdarden@wiley.com or Julia Lampam (U.K.), 44-01243-770668 jlampam@wiley.co.uk or Susan Sills Sills , Beverly Originally Belle Silverman. Born 1929. American operatic soprano and manager who joined the New York City Opera in 1953 and was its general director from 1980 to 1989. Noun 1. (Germany), 49-6201-6060 ssills@wiley-vch.de |
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