According to Rachel Burley, Vice President and Publisher at Current Protocols, the partnership aims to enhance articles published in Current Protocols with video demonstrations of experimental procedures to increase their reproducibility.

“One picture is worth a thousand words. Demonstration of biological research experiments on video will show exactly how these experiments are performed. This will increase reproducibility of experimental studies across all the fields of biological and biomedical research,” she added.

According to the agreement, Current Protocols will use its large database to identify research labs with the most advanced state-of-the art experimental approaches for filming and video publication produced by JoVE. During the first year of the collaborative work, the two companies plan to produce and publish 200 experimental videos online.

Moshe Pritsker, CEO and a co-founder of JoVE, emphasized the importance of the collaboration with Wiley-Blackwell. “JoVE was founded a year ago to address one of the most difficult ‘bottleneck’ problems in life sciences, reproducibility and transparency of the experimental research, using online video.  This collaboration with Wiley-Blackwell will allow us to attain our goal of providing a comprehensive resource for this rapidly changing field.”

“Combining a traditional model of scientific publishing and new Internet technologies is producing a strong synergetic effect,” said Ms. Burley. “The result will be the creation of a new highly-valuable resource that will help scientists involved in the basic academic research and drug discovery.”

About Current Protocols
Current Protocols provides authoritative and up-to-date methods for scientific research in 14 comprehensive titles spanning the life sciences. There are over 11,000 basic to advanced research protocols published across the series.  All protocols include commentary and guidelines written by experts and reviewed and edited by colleagues who understand the needs of bench researchers.

About Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell was formed in February 2007 as a result of the acquisition of Blackwell Publishing Ltd. by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., and its merger with Wiley’s Scientific, Technical, and Medical business. Together, the companies have created a global publishing business with deep strength in every major academic and professional field. Wiley-Blackwell publishes approximately 1,400 scholarly peer-reviewed journals and an extensive collection of books with global appeal. For more information on Wiley-Blackwell, please visit www.blackwellpublishing.com or http://interscience.wiley.com.  

About Wiley
Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Since 1901, Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 350 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology/Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace.

Our core businesses include scientific, technical, medical and scholarly journals, encyclopedias, books, and online products and services; professional/trade publishes books, subscription products, training materials, and online applications and websites; and educational materials for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners. Wiley's global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. The Company’s Web site can be accessed at http://www.wiley.com and its online visitor's forum can be accessed at www.wiley.com/go/livinghistory. The Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols JWa and JWb.

About Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)
The Boston-based startup company JoVE was founded in October 2006 as the first online video publication for biological research. This novel approach to scientific publishing enables visualization of experimental studies to increase reproducibility and efficiency in life sciences research. JoVE has so far released 200 video articles describing advanced experimental approaches in neuroscience, cancer research, stem cell biology, microbiology and other fields. The JoVE editorial board includes 20 scientists from leading academic institutions including Harvard, Princeton and National Institute of Health. To facilitate integration of video into scientific publishing, JoVE has developed an organizational and technical structure to conduct production of scientific videos in research labs in the USA, Europe and Japan. For more information, please visit www.jove.com.