News

Competition prompts information innovation in life-sciences

08 June 2008

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

Wiley chooses LibreDigital

07 June 2008

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

New Nielsen figures published

06 June 2008

Nielsen Book announces UK book production figures for 2007

SAGE buys CQ Press

01 June 2008

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

Ingram acquires assets of Audiofy Corporation

31 May 2008

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

Microsoft abandons book digitisation programme

30 May 2008

Microsoft is stopping its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and winding down its book-digitisation initiatives.

Bentham picks EMpact for sales

29 May 2008

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

Springer assists Heron Island Research Station

28 May 2008

Springer makes a donation to the Heron Island Research Station following a massive fire in March 2007.

ARL publishes preservation statistics

28 May 2008

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published statistics about preservation efforts in 2005-06.

Médecins Sans Frontières launches repository

22 May 2008

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has adopted the Open Repository service from BioMed Central.

OCLC and Google sign agreement

22 May 2008

OCLC and Google sign agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services.

Trinity University selects Innovative

21 May 2008

Trinity University's Elizabeth Huth Coates Library selects Innovative for its digital library service.

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