Wiley, a writer of authoritative content material and analysis intelligence for the development of scientific discovery, innovation and studying, and the International Society of Automation (ISA), the skilled society for automation, have introduced a strategic co-publishing partnership designed to broaden world entry to ISA’s authoritative technical and academic publishing content material.
ISA selected to associate with Wiley to raised serve the automation neighborhood and its tens of hundreds of members worldwide. The partnership combines ISA’s technical management and high quality content material with Wiley’s editorial experience and world attain.
This collaboration preserves ISA’s editorial independence whereas leveraging Wiley’s world infrastructure to ship new and revised titles yearly, responding to the rising want for industrial automation content material around the globe.
The specifics of the settlement:
- Wiley will assume management of ISA’s backlist of roughly 70 titles.
- Wiley will publish 5 new titles this 12 months, together with a revision of ISA’s flagship e-book, A Information to the Automation Physique of Data, Fourth Version.
- ISA and Wiley will collaborate to amass and develop new and revised titles with the aim of publishing 5 to eight books yearly aligned with ISA’s technical subjects.
By means of the partnership, ISA’s important content material will higher attain automation professionals worldwide by way of expanded distribution channels, enhanced discoverability and Wiley’s world gross sales community, whereas Wiley’s place in industrial automation, a key strategic development space, can be strengthened.
Rick Zabel, managing director of ISA publications and Automation.com, says: “Our partnership with Wiley allows ISA to considerably broaden the attain and affect of our instructional content material at a time when automation is reworking industries worldwide.
“We’re getting access to world distribution channels and digital platforms that can make ISA’s authoritative steering obtainable to automation professionals in every single place, whereas sustaining the editorial integrity and technical rigor our members count on.”
Amanda Miller, Wiley group vice chairman, Superior Content material, says: “This collaboration really demonstrates how specialised technical societies can obtain scale and sustainability whereas preserving their editorial mission.
“We’re very excited to be working with such a well-established, extremely esteemed group and serving to to convey its experience to a broader world viewers.”
