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Jun 1, 2025·StrategicPlan
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Wiley Overview
This document provides an overview of Wiley's Transformational Agreements (TAs), a cornerstone of its open access strategy. It defines TAs as agreements combining read access and open access publishing, often including funding or discounts for Article Publication Charges. The overview explains the rationale behind TAs, driven by policy and funder mandates, and details their operational mechanics. It charts the growth of Wiley's TAs from 2016 to 2025, expanding globally to encompass 125 agreements across over 3,800 institutions. The document also highlights key benefits for authors, such as increased readership, simplified publishing processes, and compliance with funder mandates, and discusses additional open access waivers and discounts.
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This document details John Wiley & Sons' strategic insights and recommendations for leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to enhance publishing. It identifies AI adoption as inevitable and critical for researchers, highlighting the need for clear guidelines, ethical standards (transparency, protection, attribution, compensation), and training. The strategy advocates for continuous experimentation with AI tools, fostering collaboration with stakeholders, and developing AI applications to accelerate research, improve authorship, and expand content reach, ultimately aiming to shape the AI future for the academic community.
Oct 23, 2024·StrategicPlan
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Innovation Overview
This academic chapter provides a comprehensive overview of innovation and entrepreneurship, highlighting their essential role in organizational survival and growth. It details innovation as a multi-faceted process that extends beyond technological advancements, influencing products, services, operations, and social development. The document explores how innovation contributes to strategic advantage in dynamic global and market contexts, outlining four key dimensions of innovation space: product, process, position, and paradigm. It also examines critical aspects such as incremental versus radical innovation, component versus architectural changes, the innovation life cycle, and the challenges presented by discontinuous innovation.
Jan 1, 2024·StrategicPlan
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Strategic Plan 2020-2040
This document details John Wiley & Sons, Inc.'s strategic plan for climate-related financial disclosures and environmental performance, reflecting the status as of Fiscal Year 2024. It outlines a commitment to achieve Net Zero greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain by FY2040, using FY2020 as a base year, with interim targets by FY2030. The plan is structured around the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations, focusing on Governance, Strategy, Risk Management, and Metrics and Targets. It includes climate scenario analysis for short- (2024-2029), medium- (2030-2039), and long-term (2040-2055) impacts, identifying and managing climate-related risks and opportunities, and detailing the company's Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
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