Celebrating 200 years of publishing

Abstract

On behalf of the International Society for Analytical Cytology, I would like to congratulate John Wiley & Sons for achieving 200 years of publishing excellence in 2007. The Society first published our journal Cytometry in 1980 with the founding editor Dr. Brian H. Mayall, M.D. under the publishing banner of Alan R. Liss, Inc. In 1989 John Wiley & Sons purchased Alan R. Liss, Inc., and with it ISAC's journal. ISAC has remained as a Wiley journal since that time. The Wiley story started when Charles Wiley opened a small printing shop in Manhattan, New York City in 1807. As the company expanded from printing to publishing, it achieved prominence by publishing such works as Herman Melville's Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven, and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse. The company also published the works of European writers such as Hans Christian Andersen, Victor Hugo, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Over the next 150 years, Wiley expanded its interests in engineering and science and established a strong reputation as a quality science publisher. For two centuries, Wiley has endeavored to teach, inform, and enlighten. Their history is intertwined with the advances in publishing and the evolution of modern science. 1n 2006 Wiley acquired Blackwell Publishing (Holdings) Ltd., one of the world's foremost academic and professional publishers. The combined Wiley and Blackwell business will publish approximately 1,250 scholarly peer-reviewed journals as well as an extensive collection of books with global appeal. Cytometry is but one of those 1250 peer-reviewed journals, but it is the one that drives our Society. The strength and influence of our journal is crucial to our goals of ensuring that the technology of cytometry is always published in a well respected and quality publication. Cytometry is now approaching 70 volumes in its 26th year. It is gratifying to note that Wiley has also digitized the entire 70 volumes of Cytometry, all of which are freely available to members of the Society. Bringing the early volumes online is a very valuable asset to the Society for which we are very grateful. Wiley also publishes Current Protocols in Cytometry, the leading publication in the field for method development. Both Cytometry and Current Protocols in Cytometry represent the highest standard in the field and we are proud to be represented in the publishing community by John Wiley & Sons. We wish the very best for the Wiley publishing house as they move into their 3rd century of quality publishing.