Wiley to Provide Emergency Access to Scholarly Content after a Natural Disaster

["Gillingham, Emily - Oxford" <emily.gillingham@wiley.com>]

-Wiley to Provide Emergency Access to Scholarly Content after a 
Natural Disaster

HOBOKEN, NJ, April 22, 2010 - Global publisher John Wiley & Sons, 
Inc. (JWa, JWb) announced today that they have approved a Natural 
Disaster Access Clause that will extend licensed electronic 
content to emergency workers, students, faculty, and academic 
institutions affected by a local, national, or global natural 
disaster.  The first license to include this clause is the Wiley 
Online Consortium License with the University of Texas System and 
Houston Academy of Medicine - Texas Medical Center Library.

Following a major natural disaster, emergency workers, students, 
faculty, and institutions displaced to other communities may need 
access to critical scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly 
information. Under the Natural Disaster Access Clause, Wiley will 
allow a licensee to provide affected groups with electronic 
access to its licensed products via the licensee's secure 
network.  In effect, they would be considered "authorized users" 
of a licensee with full rights afforded to them.

Such an arrangement was put in place after Hurricane Katrina, 
when displaced students, faculty, and emergency workers came to 
institutions in the UT System and served by the HAM-TMC Library 
that needed access to licensed materials.  Wiley agreed to extend 
their license to these groups, so the parties have a history of 
working together to help displaced people gain access to the 
information they need.

"It is important that we provide communities in need with 
information and knowledge," said Eric A. Swanson, Senior Vice 
President of Wiley's Scientific, Technical, Medical and Scholarly 
(STMS) business, also known as Wiley-Blackwell. "Wiley has 
demonstrated its commitment to supplying content to those in need 
through our support of Research4Life and our independent outreach 
following disasters such as the tsunamis in Southeast Asia and 
the recent earthquake in Haiti. We are proud to announce that 
Wiley will extend this latest emergency access initiative, 
globally, to all of its managed licensees who could provide these 
essential services should the need arise."

This initiative is scheduled to take effect immediately. 
Institutions needing more information on emergency access 
following a major natural disaster should contact 
wissales@wiley.com

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Emily Gillingham
Director, Library and Institutional Marketing
Wiley-Blackwell
John Wiley & Sons
emily.gillingham@wiley.com

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