Publishing news

Inspec, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)'s bibliographic database now has over 10 million records.

Ambassador Books and Media partners with ebrary for new e-book offering.

ProQuest will acquire the Dialog business of Thomson Reuters.

Convera has signed an agreement with IOP to develop a customised vertical web search application.

DAREnet, the network of digital academic repositories in the Netherlands, becomes part of the Dutch scientific information portal NARCIS.

Wiley-Blackwell completes agreements to provide access to nearly 400 journal backfiles to research institutions in Germany.

Elsevier invites the scientific community to innovate how life-sciences information is used in online text databases.

Wiley partners with LibreDigital to deliver e-book, custom content, and discovery tools.

Nielsen Book announces UK book production figures for 2007

CQ Press, the book-publishing unit of Washington-based Congressional Quarterly, has been sold to SAGE.

Ingram Digital acquires the iofy digital audiobook platform from Audiofy Corporation.

Bentham Science Publishers appoints EBSCO-owned EMpact to increase scholarly journal sales.