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The '''H. W. Wilson Company, Inc.''' is a publisher and indexing company that was founded in 1898 and is located in [[The Bronx]], New York. It provides print and digital content aimed at patrons of public school, college, and professional libraries in both the United States and internationally. The company also provides indexing services that include text, retrospective, abstracting and indexing, as well other types of [[database]]s. Image gallery indexing includes art museum and cinema. The company also indexed reference monographs. An online retrieval system with various features, including language translation, is also available. The company merged with [[EBSCO Publishing]] in June 2011.<ref name=blmbg>
{{cite web |title=Company Overview of The HW Wilson Company, Inc. |publisher=[[Bloomberg Businessweek]] |url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4305434 |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100705131502/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4305434 |archive-date=2010-07-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2011-06-02 |title=EBSCO Publishing and The H.W. Wilson Company Make Joint Announcement of Merger Agreement |publisher=[[Cision|PRWeb]] |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/ebscohwwilson/merger/prweb8516676.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719073028/http://www.prweb.com/releases/EBSCOHWWilson/Merger/prweb8516676.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 19, 2013 |access-date=2012-07-24}}</ref> [[Grey House Publishing]] currently publishes print editions of H. W. Wilson products under license.
==History==
[[File:HW Wilson lighthouse W162 Bx jeh.jpg|thumb|Lighthouse building, South Bronx]]
The H. W. Wilson Company was founded in 1898 by [[Halsey William Wilson]], a student working his way through the [[University of Minnesota]]
In 1911, Wilson relocated the company to [[White Plains, New York]], to be nearer to its main markets. By 1917, demand for more specialized indexes had grown to the point where the company had to move again. Wilson bought a five-story building in The Bronx on the banks of the Harlem River. The building's distinctive lighthouse was added in 1929.
The company also published some print references, such as ''Facts About the Presidents'', ''Famous First Facts'', and the monthly [[magazine]] ''[[Current Biography]]''.{{when|date=March 2023}} The company published [[Monroe N. Work]]'s ''A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America'' in 1928<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DaZGb-Zn7j4C | title=A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America | year=1928 | isbn=978-1-57898-079-6 | last1=Work | first1=Monroe Nathan | publisher=Martino }}</ref>
===Merger with EBSCO Publishing, June 2011===▼
On June 2, 2011, H. W. Wilson Company merged with [[EBSCO Publishing]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Questions & Answers regarding EBSCO Publishing's Merger with The H.W. Wilson Company |website=[[EBSCO Information Services]] |url=http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=5482 |url-status=dead |access-date=2011-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321223140/http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=5482 |archive-date=2012-03-21}}</ref> Staff at the Dublin office of the company went to the Labour Court in Ireland and protested at EBSCO's failure to abide by its recommendations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex-HW Wilson staff to protest over redundancy package |website=[[TheJournal.ie]] |url=http://www.thejournal.ie/ex-hw-wilson-staff-to-protest-over-redundancy-package-444783-May2012/ |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731115547/http://www.thejournal.ie/ex-hw-wilson-staff-to-protest-over-redundancy-package-444783-May2012/ |archive-date=2012-07-31}}</ref> Wilson's Bronx headquarters with its iconic lighthouse is not included in the merger and will be closed. Wilson's operations will relocate to EBSCO headquarters in [[Ipswich,_Massachusetts|Ipswich]], [[Massachusetts]] which “offers room for expansion and is the logical choice for streamlining physical operations. While not always easy, making fiscally-responsible decisions such as this will allow us [to] invest more resources into increasing the value of the products and services that we create, and keep costs in check for our mutual companies” said Sam Brooks, EBSCO Publishing senior vice president, sales and marketing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ojala |first=Marydee |date=2011-06-09 |title=EBSCO Acquires H.W. Wilson--Leaves Bronx Lighthouse Behind |website=[[Information Today]] |url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/EBSCO-Acquires-HW-WilsonLeaves-Bronx-Lighthouse-Behind-75953.asp |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211085448/http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/EBSCO-Acquires-HW-WilsonLeaves-Bronx-Lighthouse-Behind-75953.asp |archive-date=2021-11-09}}</ref>▼
▲===Merger with EBSCO Publishing, June 2011===
{{update section|date=April 2023}}
▲On June 2, 2011, H. W. Wilson Company merged with [[EBSCO Publishing]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Questions & Answers regarding EBSCO Publishing's Merger with The H.W. Wilson Company |website=[[EBSCO Information Services]] |url=http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=5482 |url-status=dead |access-date=2011-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321223140/http://support.epnet.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=5482 |archive-date=2012-03-21}}</ref> Staff at the Dublin office of the company went to the Labour Court in Ireland and protested at EBSCO's failure to abide by its recommendations.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ex-HW Wilson staff to protest over redundancy package |website=[[TheJournal.ie]] |url=http://www.thejournal.ie/ex-hw-wilson-staff-to-protest-over-redundancy-package-444783-May2012/ |url-status=dead |access-date=2012-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120731115547/http://www.thejournal.ie/ex-hw-wilson-staff-to-protest-over-redundancy-package-444783-May2012/ |archive-date=2012-07-31}}</ref> Wilson's Bronx headquarters with its iconic lighthouse is not included in the merger and will be closed. Wilson's operations will relocate to EBSCO headquarters in [[Ipswich,_Massachusetts|Ipswich]], [[Massachusetts]] which “offers room for expansion and is the logical choice for streamlining physical operations. While not always easy, making fiscally-responsible decisions such as this will allow us [to] invest more resources into increasing the value of the products and services that we create, and keep costs in check for our mutual companies” said Sam Brooks, EBSCO Publishing senior vice president, sales and marketing.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ojala |first=Marydee |date=2011-06-09 |title=EBSCO Acquires H.W. Wilson--Leaves Bronx Lighthouse Behind |website=[[Information Today]] |url=http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/EBSCO-Acquires-HW-WilsonLeaves-Bronx-Lighthouse-Behind-75953.asp |url-status=dead |access-date=2021-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211085448/http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/EBSCO-Acquires-HW-WilsonLeaves-Bronx-Lighthouse-Behind-75953.asp |archive-date=2021-
== John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award ==
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==WilsonWeb==
WilsonWeb is "an online based information retrieval system that offers an interface, multiple search modes, interactive help messages, and text translation into various languages".<ref name=blmbg/>
==Publishings==
*''Best books on the war''
*''Index to short stories''
*''The vision of Anton as told by Walter A. Dyer''
*''A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America'' edited by [[Monroe N. Work]] (1928)
==References==
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