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38-635: Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a merger between Kluwer Publishers and Wolters Samsom. It operates in over 150 countries. The company is headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn , Netherlands (Global) and Philadelphia , United States (corporate). Jan-Berend Wolters founded the Schoolbook publishing house in Groningen, Netherlands , in 1836. In 1858, the Noordhoff publishing house

76-421: A commuter city. Other urban developments however did create local employment. Since the 1990s, a similar new development was built at the city's south side. In recent years, a large part of the city centre has undergone a full urban renewal. Many buildings from the 1950s and earlier have been demolished to make place for modern architecture. This "masterplan" included the addition of a new public square next to

114-694: A Houston, Texas-based enterprise legal management software and services provider in April 2014. The company partnered with Anhembi Morumbi University , a private university in São Paulo, Brazil , to provide information and resources to healthcare students and professionals in June 2014. That month, the company's CCH eSign solution won the CPA Practice Advisor Magazine's 2014 Tax & Accounting Technology Innovation Award. The solution won

152-427: A city and municipality in the western Netherlands , in the province of South Holland . The city is situated on the banks of the river Oude Rijn (Old Rhine), where the river Gouwe branches off. The municipality had a population of 112,587 in 2021, and covers an area of 132.50 km (51.16 sq mi) of which 6.27 km (2.42 sq mi) is water. The municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn also includes

190-776: A collection of laboratory protocols, recipes that provide step-by-step instructions for conducting experiments, which in 2018 was made available in SpringerLink instead. Book publications include major reference works, textbooks, monographs and book series; more than 168,000 titles are available as e-books in 24 subject collections. Springer is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association . For some of its journals, Springer does not require its authors to transfer their copyrights, and allows them to decide whether their articles are published under an open-access license or in

228-599: A financial reporting software solutions provider, to the foreign and domestic bank market in China in October 2011. That December, Wolters Kluwer acquired Medknow, an open access publisher. Also in 2011, Wolters Kluwer sold its pharmaceutical industry-related Marketing and Publishing Service division to Springer Science+Business Media , which led to a workforce reduction at its facility in Ambler, Pennsylvania , eventually leading to

266-502: A fraudulent peer review process was uncovered. According to Goodhart's law and concerned academics like the signatories of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment , commercial academic publishers benefit from manipulation of bibliometrics and scientometrics like the journal impact factor , which is often used as a proxy of prestige and can influence revenues, including public subsidies in

304-501: A newly built bridge flap of the under-renovation Juliana Bridge on the Oude Rijn collapsed. It was being hoisted by two cranes , different in size, floating on a pontoon that was not stabilized. It became unbalanced shortly after the lifting started, fell and collapsed onto buildings. There were no injuries and fatalities, many inhabitants having already cleared the area. In total 51 properties were damaged. Alphen aan den Rijn has

342-453: A proposed class-action lawsuit, alleging that the publishers violated antitrust law by agreeing not to compete against each other for manuscripts and by denying scholars payment for peer review services. Alphen aan den Rijn Alphen aan den Rijn ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɑlfə(n) aːn də(n) ˈrɛin] ; English: "Alphen upon Rhine" or "Alphen on the Rhine") is

380-681: Is run through Wolters Kluwer Health. Wolters Kluwer is listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index . The company received the Bronze Class Sustainability Award 2014 from RobecoSAM. Wolters Kluwer is recognized as one of the "Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World" by Corporate Knights . In September 2024, Lucina Uddin , a neuroscience professor at UCLA , sued Wolters Kluwer along with five other academic journal publishers in

418-664: The Software and Information Industry Association 's "Best Enterprise Mobile Application" award that year. The company partnered with Broadridge Tax Services in August 2014 to facilitate tax reporting and reconciliation. In September, the company's UpToDate resource was released in Latin America. That month the company extended its partnership with the American Internal Revenue Service . 2014 marked

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456-601: The open-access publisher BioMed Central in October 2008 for an undisclosed amount. In 2009, Cinven and Candover sold Springer to two private equity firms, EQT AB and Government of Singapore Investment Corporation , confirmed in February 2010 after the competition authorities in the US and in Europe approved the transfer. In 2011, Springer acquired Pharma Marketing and Publishing Services (MPS) from Wolters Kluwer. In 2013,

494-685: The 15th year of their collaboration. In May 2016, the company acquired Enablon, a global provider of Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability and Operational Risk Management software and SaaS solutions. Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory sold Croner Group to Peninsula Business Services in 2016 and sold Croner-i to Peninsula in 2017 In the United States, Wolters Kluwer's Legal & Regulatory Education (the education division of Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S.) published casebooks and legal textbooks through its Aspen Publisher's, Inc. marquee. In 2021, Transom Capital Group purchased

532-399: The 17th century, Alphen became prominent again as a hub for commerce. The Oude Rijn was used for boat traffic; there are still portions along the river where the towpath is present. The current municipality was formed in 1918 through the amalgamation of the smaller municipalities of Alphen , Aarlanderveen , and Oudshoorn . In 1964, the municipality of Zwammerdam was added as well. In 2014

570-808: The 1960s, and through mergers in the 1990s and a sale to venture capitalists it fused with Wolters Kluwer and eventually became part of Springer Nature in 2015. Springer has major offices in Berlin, Heidelberg , Dordrecht , and New York City . Julius Springer founded Springer-Verlag in Berlin in 1842 and his son Ferdinand Springer grew it from a small firm of 4 employees into Germany's then second-largest academic publisher with 65 staff in 1872. In 1964, Springer expanded its business internationally, opening an office in New York City. Offices in Tokyo, Paris, Milan, Hong Kong, and Delhi soon followed. In 1999,

608-778: The CDA is the current acting mayor. The council of mayor and alderman run the city on a day-to-day basis and report to the city council. Current (2016) aldermen in Alphen aan den Rijn are: The information and publishing company Wolters Kluwer is based in Alphen aan den Rijn. Springer Science%2BBusiness Media Springer Science+Business Media , commonly known as Springer , is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in Berlin , it expanded internationally in

646-616: The Education division for US$ 88 million, renaming the entire operation as the standalone Aspen Publishing. In June 2022, Wolters Kluwer signed and completed an agreement to acquire Level Programs S.L., a provider of legal practice management software in Spain. Wolters Kluwer operates under five divisions as of 2023: The company is active in over 150 countries. Approximately 74% of the company's revenue came from online, software and services in 2013. The United States medical publishing business

684-615: The London-based private equity firm BC Partners acquired a majority stake in Springer from EQT and GIC for $ 4.4 billion. In January 2015, Holtzbrinck Publishing Group / Nature Publishing Group and Springer Science+Business Media announced a merger . in May 2015 they concluded the transaction and formed a new joint venture company, Springer Nature with Holtzbrinck in the majority 53% share and BC Partners retaining 47% interest in

722-481: The Netherlands, announced its intentions to buy up Kluwer's stock. Kluwer merged with Wolters-Samsom to fend off Elsevier's take-over bid and formed Wolters Kluwer. The merger made Wolters Kluwer the second-largest publishing house in the Netherlands. After the merger, Wolters Kluwer began expanding internationally with the purchase of IPSOA Editore, Kieser Verlag, Technipublicaciones and Tele Consulte in 1989. By

760-658: The Oude Rijn. Alphen was therefore an important commercial site in the area until Germanic raids ended that in 240 AD. After recurring problems with flooding, especially in Utrecht and Leiden, the Oude Rijn was dammed at Wijk bij Duurstede in 1122, thereby making the Lek River the main branch of the Rhine. The Oude Rijn has not flooded since. During the Middle Ages, Alphen was a fiefdom called Alphen en Rietveld. In

798-572: The Roman era, the Oude Rijn was the main branch of the Rhine River and formed the north border of the Roman Empire . Since the rule of Emperor Claudius (41–54 AD), divisions of the Roman army were stationed here. Consequently, several Roman fortifications were located along the Oude Rijn, including castellum Albanianae in the centre of Alphen. The Romans had also built the first bridge over

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836-818: The academic publishing company BertelsmannSpringer was formed after the media and entertainment company Bertelsmann bought a majority stake in Springer-Verlag. In 2003, the British investment groups Cinven and Candover bought BertelsmannSpringer from Bertelsmann. They merged the company in 2004 with the Dutch publisher Kluwer Academic Publishers (successor of D. Reidel , Dr. W. Junk, Plenum Publishers, most of Chapman & Hall ), and Baltzer Science Publishers ) which they bought from Wolters Kluwer in 2002, to form Springer Science+Business Media. In 2006, Springer acquired Humana Press . Springer acquired

874-580: The communities of Aarlanderveen , Zwammerdam , and Boskoop . The city is located in what is called the ' Green Heart ' of the Netherlands, which is a somewhat less densely populated centre area of the Randstad . The name "Alphen" is probably derived from the name of the Roman fort Albaniana , meaning "settlement at the white water". Its remains still lie underneath the city centre. The area around Alphen aan den Rijn has been inhabited for 2000 years. In

912-695: The company received a multi-year contract to provide prescription and patient-level data to the United States Food and Drug Administration . In 2009, Wolters Kluwer was named the "Best Place to Work" in Spain by the Great Place to Work Institute. Wolters Kluwer acquired FRSGlobal, financial regulatory reporting and risk management firm in September 2010. The acquisition enabled Wolters Kluwer to provide financial organizations comprehensive compliance and risk solutions. The company acquired SASGAS,

950-633: The company's business in Asia because of CCH Inc.'s involvement in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It also purchased Little, Brown and Company's medical and legal division that year. John Wiley & Son 's legal division was purchased in 1997. Waverly, Inc., Ovid Technologies , Inc. and Plenum Publishing Corporation were acquired in 1998 with the intention of developing Wolters Kluwer's medical and scientific publishing industry. In 2002, Wolters Kluwer sold Kluwer Academic Publishers to

988-739: The company. In 1996, Springer launched electronic book and journal content on its SpringerLink site. SpringerImages was launched in 2008. In 2009, SpringerMaterials, a platform for accessing the Landolt-Börnstein database of research and information on materials and their properties, was launched. AuthorMapper is a free online tool for visualizing scientific research that enables document discovery based on author locations and geographic maps, helping users explore patterns in scientific research, identify literature trends, discover collaborative relationships, and locate experts in several scientific/medical fields. Springer Protocols contained

1026-809: The end of the year, Wolters Kluwer expanded its presence to Spain, West Germany and France. The company also launched LEX, its legal information system, in Poland. In 1989, 44% of the company's revenue was earned in foreign markets. The following year, Wolters Kluwer purchased J. B. Lippincott & Co. from HarperCollins . The company acquired Liber, a Swedish educational publishing company, in 1993. The following year it established its first Eastern European subsidiary, IURA Edition, in Bratislava, Slovakia . The company acquired Jugend & Volk, Dalian, Fateco Fîrlag and Juristfîrlaget, Deutscher Kommunal-Verlag Dr. Naujoks & Behrendt and Colex Data in 1995. Wolters Kluwer

1064-623: The fifth participant in the AAISalliance, an arrangement of information providers that make their services available for member insurance companies of the American Association of Insurance Services (AAIS) in April 2014. In May 2014, Wolters Kluwer launched UpToDate, a clinical decision support resource, in the United Kingdom. UpToDate was launched throughout Western Europe a month later. Wolters Kluwer acquired Datacert,

1102-416: The following attractions: The town is served by Alphen aan den Rijn railway station . It is just south east of the town centre. The bus station is located near the railway station. Trains which head towards Alphen aan den Rijn railway station are notorious for not always opening their doors to passengers. In total, there are 11 parties in the city council that consists of 35 councillors. Liesbeth Spies of

1140-565: The journal Zentralblatt MATH . Tullio Levi-Civita , who was Jewish, was forced out from the editorial board, and Otto Neugebauer resigned in protest along with most of the rest of the board. In 2014, it was revealed that 16 papers in conference proceedings published by Springer had been computer-generated using SCIgen . Springer subsequently retracted all papers from these proceedings. IEEE had removed more than 100 fake papers from its conference proceedings. In 2015, Springer retracted 64 papers from 10 of its journals it had published after

1178-646: The municipalities of Boskoop and Rijnwoude were amalgamated as well, doubling the land area and increasing the population to over 100,000. During the Second World War, the majority of Jews from Alphen were deported and subsequently murdered; only a few survived. After the war, the Jewish congregation was disbanded and merged with the one in Leiden. A Jewish cemetery on the Aarkade was founded in 1802, but it

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1216-481: The private equity firms Cinven and Candover Investments . (It is now part of Springer ). The company established its first three-year strategy to deliver sustained value to customers and shareholders in 2003. The New Delhi Wolters Kluwer Health office opened in 2006. In 2007, Wolters Kluwer Education was sold to Bridgepoint Capital . In September 2008, Wolters Kluwer acquired UpToDate , an evidence-based electronic clinical information resource. The following month,

1254-505: The riverbank, the construction of a performing arts theatre/ cinema , an upgrade of local shops and the creation of pedestrian streets . As of 2006, all of these projects on the left riverbank Hoge Zijde have been finished and a new similar masterplan for the right riverbank Lage Zijde has been developed and is being executed now. On 9 April 2011, a gunman opened fire at a shopping centre in Alphen aan den Rijn, killing six people and subsequently taking his own life. On 3 August 2015,

1292-904: The site's closure in 2013. In 2012, Wolters Kluwer acquired Acclipse, an accounting software provider, and Finarch, an integrated finance and risk solutions. The company's health division tested technology to identify and treat sepsis that December. Wolters Kluwer acquired Health Language, a medical terminology management provider, in January 2013. In May 2013, it acquired Prosoft Tecnologia, a Brazilian provider of tax and accounting software. The company acquired CitizenHawk, an American online brand protection and global domain recovery specialist, in September 2013. That month, Wolters Kluwer acquired Svenson, an Austrian regulatory reporting solutions provider. The acquisition enabled both companies to assist Austrian banks and insurance companies in meeting national and international regulatory requirements. The company became

1330-413: The traditional restricted licence model. While open-access publishing typically requires the author to pay a fee for copyright retention, this fee is sometimes covered by a third party. For example, a national institution in Poland allows authors to publish in open-access journals without incurring any personal cost but using public funds. In 1938, Springer-Verlag was pressed to apply Nazi principles on

1368-455: Was abandoned and razed in the 1960s, with the remains re-interred in Katwijk ; in 2012, after fifteen years of community activism by local historian Anke Bakker and CDA council member Alice Besseling , a monument was installed and the area turned into a city park. Since the 1950s, the city began to grow rapidly. A large new neighbourhood was built on the north side and Alphen became mostly

1406-422: Was founded alongside the Schoolbook publishing house. The two publishing houses merged in 1968. Wolters-Noordhoff merged with Information and Communications Union (ICU) in 1972 and took the name ICU. ICU acquired Croner in 1977, ICU changed its name to Wolters-Samsom in 1983. The company began serving foreign law firms and multinational companies in China in 1985. In 1987, Elsevier , the largest publishing house in

1444-416: Was operating in 16 countries and had approximately, 8000 employees by the end of that year. In 1994, Wolters Kluwer expanded its US legal business by acquiring Prentice Hall Law & Business from Simon & Schuster . In 1995, Wolters Kluwer acquired CT Corporation . The following year, it purchased CCH Inc. , a tax and business materials' publisher, for $ 1.9 billion. The purchase assisted in expanding

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