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==Blackwell Publishing history==
Blackwell Publishing was formed by the 2001 merger of two Oxford-based [[academic publishing]] companies, Blackwell Science (founded 1939 as Blackwell Scientific Publishing) and Blackwell Publishers (founded 1922), which had their origins in the nineteenth century [[Blackwell's]] family bookshop and publishing business. The merger created the world's leading learned society publisher, partnered with 665 academic and professional societies.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}} The group then acquired BMJ Books from the [[BMJ Publishing Group]] (publisher of the ''[[British Medical Journal]]'') in 2004.<ref>{{cite journal|doi = 10.1136/bmj.328.7444.854-d|title = BMJ Publishing Group sells its books department|journal = [[British Medical Journal]]|year = 2004|volume = 328|page = 854|first = Owen|last = Dyer}}</ref> Blackwell published over 805 journals and 650 text and reference books in 2006, across a wide range of academic, medical, and professional subjects.{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}
On November 17, 2006, [[John Wiley & Sons]] announced it had "entered into a definitive agreement to acquire" Blackwell Publishing.<ref>[http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/wiley.pdf Wiley to Acquire Blackwell Publishing (Holdings) Ltd.], John Wiley & Sons, Inc., November 17, 2006</ref> The acquisition was completed in February 2007, at a purchase price of £572 million. Blackwell Publishing was merged into Wiley's Global Scientific, Technical, and Medical business to create Wiley-Blackwell.<ref name=aboutWB/> From June 30, 2008, the journals previously on Blackwell Synergy were delivered through [[Wiley InterScience]].
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