One of the UK's oldest university presses partners with Wiley to scale operations and strengthen editorial workflows
HOBOKEN, N.J.- Wiley (NYSE: WLY), a global leader in authoritative content and research intelligence for the advancement of scientific discovery, innovation and learning, today announced that Liverpool University Press (LUP) has selected Research Exchange as its research publishing platform. LUP becomes the first third-party publisher to adopt Research Exchange, joining more than 1,500 journals published by Wiley and its partners to manage submissions, screening, and peer review of academic content.
Founded in 1899, Liverpool University Press is the UK's third oldest university press and annually publishes over 50 journals, 200 books, and more than a dozen digital collections across humanities and social sciences. The partnership enables LUP to scale its journals publishing program while implementing sophisticated integrity screening and efficient editorial workflows that meet researcher needs.
"The Research Exchange platform provides an enhanced suite of screening tools which will help us to address common research integrity problems that journals publishers are facing today, particularly in the wake of the uptake of assistive AI by the research community. We believe that this move to Research Exchange will reduce the administrative burden on LUP's journal editors, freeing up their time to spend on the actual business of being an editor, with confidence that the publishing platform they are using is enabling their journal and its authors to produce high-quality, rigorous, and trusted research," said Emma Burridge, Journals & Online Manager at LUP.
"The customizable nature of Research Exchange to suit each individual journal's workflow and the efficient and user-friendly interface drew us towards the platform in early demos and we hope that our editors and authors will appreciate this too. The personalized support that LUP have had from the Research Exchange project team during the transition has been enormously helpful and reassuring - we're hopeful that this collaboration will also be beneficial to Wiley in developing the platform and bringing more publishing partners onboard in the future," Burridge added.
Liverpool University Press will begin migrating journals to Research Exchange starting May 2026, transitioning those currently managed through various submission systems in a phased approach that ensures continuity of service and minimal disruption to its journal editors and authors.
"One of our biggest goals with Research Exchange is to help publishers access advanced AI-enabled technology that protects information integrity and upgrades the publishing experience for authors. We're delighted that LUP has chosen to partner with Wiley and onboard the platform," said Todd Toler, VP, Product & Market Strategy at Wiley. "Our partnership model also means that LUP's editorial teams will help directly shape the product's roadmap and priorities to ensure ongoing improvements that respond directly to user needs."
Research Exchange provides publishers with integrated workflows that connect submission management, peer review coordination, and integrity screening in a single environment. Its iterative development model enables rapid feature deployment, and flexible options allow journals to configure their workflows, while maintaining the reliability and security that scholarly publishing demands.
