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"I am convinced that in every company’s life, there are key transitional moments where an owner must realize that it is time to pass on responsibilities. KU has already experienced this once in 2016, and I would argue that the results for the industry were overwhelmingly positive. And now it is happening again, in order to help this small company unlatch its full potential. Wiley and KU share a commitment to making open access simple and easy for everyone. Wiley’s scale, combined with their culture of partnership and commitment to open access, made them the right choice for taking KU to the next level. Wiley has the resources to back this development – resources which are not, nor ever will be, at my disposal. My conversations with the Wiley team have been based around the values that are at KU’s core and that I never want to see compromised. Interoperability, openness and bibliodiversity have always been at the core of our activities, as has the entrepreneurial spirit and quest for sustainability in a field that is largely dominated by state-sponsored initiatives that do not have to earn the money they spend."