[5] The first publishing house of the group was founded in Düsseldorf in 2002 by Wolfgang Philipp Müller, and transferred to Saarbrücken in August 2005.[14][15] Its business model involves a team of acquisitions editors, who search the Internet for academic authors and invite them by unsolicited e-mail for their manuscripts.[16][17][18] The editorial team sends emails to people who have written a master's thesis or doctoral dissertation and whose college library has a web-accessible catalog.[24] These books are widespread and have been purchased or acquired by various libraries and academic institutions in Europe[25][26] and Asia; many copies can be found at the National Taiwan University.The company has stated that it stopped the practice of publishing Wikipedia content in order to focus on "original academic (and) special interest authors.