John Wiley acquires two medical titles.

John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ) has acquired two medical journals from the Clinical Cardiology Publishing Company and the Foundation for Advances in Medicine and Science (FAMS; Mahwah, NJ), including "Clinical Cardiology: An Indexed and Peer-Reviewed Journal for Advances in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease" and "Scanning, The Journal of Scanning Microscopies." No terms of the deal were given.

Launched in 1978, "Clinical Cardiology" is a monthly journal that offers information on advances in the treatment of cardiovascular disease, namely how clinical cardio vascular research translates into practice, interventional techniques, pathology, pharmacology, biochemistry, and rehabilitation. The journal has a controlled circulation of 33,000 physicians, researchers and pharmaceutical professionals. "Scanning" was launched in 1979 and is published six times a year for a controlled circulation of 3500 scanning electron microscopists. The journal covers the latest research and developments in scanning electron, scanning probe, and scanning optical microscopies, as well as current and future applications of the technology to clinica medicine and bioscience.

Wiley said the purchase "complements its list of journals and strengthens "our clinical and microscopy portfolios." Wiley also publishes the journal "Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions" and 14 book titles related to "Clinical Cardiology," as well as the journals "Microscopy Research and Technique" and "International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology" and a range of related books and references. FAMS is a non-profit organization that disseminates scientific and medical research data to researchers and clinicians.

Also, Wiley has entered into agreements with two other organizations to take over publishing operations and offer new products. Wiley and the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI; San Francisco, CA) will publish a new co-branded series of reference works under Wiley's Pfeiffer imprint. Wiley also takes over responsibility for publishing ISPI's "Performance Improvement" magazine, a membership and subscription journal. Wiley has also entered into an agreement with the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS; London) to publish all five of its journals, including "International Journal of Climatology," "Atmospheric Science Letters," "The Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society," "Meteorological Applications" and "Weather."