Wiley and The Cochrane Collaboration Form Publishing Partnership

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 11:31:57 -0400
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Subject: Wiley and The Cochrane Collaboration Form Publishing Partnership

Wiley and The Cochrane Collaboration Form Publishing Partnership
Agreement Extends Wiley's Growing Medical Publishing Program

Chichester, England, April 9, 2003  - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons
Ltd. (NYSE:JWa) (NYSE:JWb), and The Cochrane Collaboration today announced
an agreement naming Wiley as the new publishing partner for The Cochrane
Collaboration's publishing activities.

The Cochrane Collaboration encompasses an established network of 50
research groups worldwide that cover a range of medical specialties,
through which The Collaboration designs, creates, and continually updates
The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.  By providing up-to-date
structured reviews of research studies, The Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews helps healthcare professionals and others making
decisions about healthcare to evaluate and access relevant information
needed to make well-informed, evidence-based decisions. The Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews is the main publishing output of the
Collaboration and currently comprises more than 1,600 complete,
authoritative reviews, with about 100-200 new or substantially updated
reviews added each quarter. It is an important part of The Cochrane
Library, a suite of evidence-based medicine databases including The
Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects; The Cochrane Central Register
of Controlled Trials; and The Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews.

Wiley will deliver The Cochrane Library through Wiley InterScience, the
company's online publishing platform for professionals in the sciences,
technology, and medicine.  Wiley will also continue to make the product
available on CD-ROM.

"Wiley shares our objective of maximizing the potential of the important
content that The Cochrane Collaboration offers to people making decisions
about healthcare, as well as our underlying principles of making critical
research information accessible to as many end-users as quickly and as
directly as possible.  By partnering with an influential and innovative
publisher such as Wiley, the Collaboration has the opportunity to become a
key part in the future of medical information," said Dr. Mike Clarke,
Co-Chair of the Cochrane Collaboration's international steering group.

"The Cochrane Collaboration has been instrumental in the evidence-based
medicine movement in Europe and around the world.  It has a strong and
widely recognized brand. Wiley looks forward to extending both the reach
and the commercial potential of The Cochrane Collaboration's publications
by leveraging our Wiley InterScience online platform and our global
marketing and sales capabilities," said Michael S. Davis, Ph.D., Vice
President and STM Publishing Director, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Wiley's strengths, particularly in digital publishing, have resulted in
the company's growing leadership in life and medical sciences publishing.  
"In recent years, through our operations both in Europe and in North
America, Wiley has built upon its combination of innovation in online
publishing and its reputation for longstanding publishing service to
learned societies and their members, by forming new partnerships with
numerous prominent national, regional, and international medical
societies. These society relationships will complement our work with The
Cochrane Collaboration, as we help to advance its strategic mission of
delivering evidenced-based medical information to healthcare professionals
worldwide, for use at the point of patient care," said Brian D. Crawford,
Ph.D., Vice President and STM Publishing Director for Global Life and
Medical Sciences at Wiley. Wiley's recently established medical publishing
partnerships include such pre-eminent organizations as The American Cancer
Society, The American College of Rheumatology, The American Neurological
Association, The British Journal of Surgery Society, Ltd., The
International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, The
International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, The
Movement Disorders Society, The Pathological Society of Great Britain and
Ireland and (beginning in 2004) The American Association for the Study of
Liver Disease.  These and other Wiley publications in the life and medical
sciences are all available online via Wiley InterScience.

About The Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Collaboration started in 1992. Its headquarters are in
Oxford, UK, and it is an international organization with bases and
participants throughout the world. The Cochrane Collaboration
(http://www.cochrane.org) aims to help people make well-informed decisions
about healthcare by preparing, maintaining and promoting the accessibility
of up-to-date systematic reviews of the effects of healthcare
interventions. It is a not-for-profit organization, established as a
company, limited by guarantee, and registered as a charity in the United
Kingdom, serving the information needs of physicians, clinical
researchers, nurses, midwives, dentists, patients and healthcare
policymakers at medical institutions, universities, corporations, and
healthcare organizations around the world, including the UK's National
Health Service.  The Collaboration encompasses an established network of
50 research groups worldwide that prepare and maintain Cochrane reviews,
covering a range of medical specialties. Approximately 10,000 people are
actively involved in the work of The Cochrane Collaboration, almost all on
a voluntary basis.

About Wiley InterScience

With more than twelve million authorised users around the globe, Wiley
InterScience (http://www.interscience.wiley.com) is one of the world's
leading providers of online scientific, technical, medical, and
professional content. Wiley InterScience now comprises more than 350
journals, major reference works, online books, laboratory manuals,
databases, and professional and management resources--linked to each other
and to other online resources to open new pathways for researchers and
practitioners to explore. Created to respond to the evolving needs of
today's researchers and professionals, Wiley InterScience offers flexible
access and service plans and personalization features to meet customer and
end-user needs. Contributing to its growth among life and medical sciences
research professionals is MobileEdition, an innovative service that
delivers information from leading journals directly to users' wireless
handheld devices. With MobileEdition, Wiley InterScience alerts medical
professionals to valuable and timely information -- when and where they
need it.

About John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

John Wiley & Sons Ltd., with its headquarters in Chichester, England, is
the largest subsidiary of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  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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