Case Study: Wiley achieves rapid publishing of 160,000 articles and faster time-to-market with MarkLogic

Wiley in the Digital World: Achieving Mission Impossible

Wiley, a 200-year-old global academic publisher, partnered with the American Geophysical Union to integrate AGU’s content into the Wiley Online Library under an aggressive contract that required full delivery in four months (just six weeks for development). The project involved migrating 160,000 articles from multiple journals and formats, supporting ongoing inflows of new content, implementing complex search and discovery across varied index terms, and preserving seamless production workflows — with no revenue until the content went live.

Wiley leveraged its existing MarkLogic platform as an XML store, search engine and content modeler to package, markup and deliver content quickly across devices, using native indexing and reusable services to speed development. The team published the full 160,000-article corpus in four months, enabled 60+ feature enhancements in six weeks, delivered content to 60,000+ users (recognizing revenue Jan 1, 2013), and achieved measurable time-to-market and operational efficiency gains, earning internal and industry awards.

Wiley

Freddie Quek

Director of Engineering