Wiley-VCH is a German publisher owned by John Wiley & Sons.
It was founded in 1921 as Verlag Chemie (meaning "Chemistry Press": VCH stands for Verlag Chemie[1]) by two German learned societies.
Later, it was merged into the German Chemical Society (GDCh).
It has been owned by John Wiley & Sons since 1996.
[2] The humanities section of Akademie Verlag and the Akademie brand were sold in 1997 to R. Oldenbourg Verlag, while VCH retained the natural sciences catalog.