Publishing news

EMpact appointed marketing representative and consultant for Akadémiai Kiadó Zrt (AK) to increase sales among academic and research libraries.

Elsevier is implementing CrossCheck to help combat plagiarism.

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.