Publishing news

ProQuest will acquire the Dialog business of Thomson Reuters.

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

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

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

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.