IHS, Wiley Enter Partnership To Deliver Engineering EBooks, Reference Works

(RTTNews) - IHS Inc. (IHS), the global source of information and analytics, announced a new partnership agreement with John Wiley & Sons Inc. (JWa, JWb), allowing IHS to resell thousands of Wiley's scientific and engineering titles as part of IHS's subscription-based offerings on a limited exclusive basis to its global industrial customers.

As per the partnership, IHS will add Wiley content to IHS's collection of 90 million technical documents spanning engineering standards and related industry and technical knowledge. IHS gives engineers, scientists, researchers, product management and marketing professionals advanced research and knowledge discovery capabilities and a single point-of-access to the most extensive collection of technical knowledge, allowing them to make fast, informed decisions across the product lifecycle.

HIS noted that it will resell the following from Wiley as part of IHS subscription-based offerings: over 2,000 Wiley eBooks such as the Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Peterson's Stress Concentration Factors, Taguchi's Quality Engineering Handbook and Uhlig's Corrosion Handbook; select Wiley Global Research databases including the Wiley Database of Polymer Properties; several major reference works including Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and Ullmann's Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, both mainstays for chemists, biochemists, and engineers at academic, industrial, and government institutions.

As part of this agreement, IHS and Wiley will work together strategically in the areas of product development, marketing and editorial activities.