In December 2008 Woodhead Publishing acquired the backlist, future titles and imprint of Chandos Publishing in Witney, Oxford, UK, comprising over 250 books in the fields of library and information management, knowledge management and Asian Studies.[1]
In 2011 they launched Woodhead Publishing Online, a resource of scientific, technical and information trends, comprising over 800 e-books, containing 12,000 chapters. This resource was hosted by MetaPress, a division of EBSCO Industries Inc.[2]
Woodhead (and its imprint Chandos) was acquired by Elsevier in August 2013.[3]
Its current areas of publication include food science, technology and nutrition, materials engineering, welding and metallurgy, textile technology, energy and environmental technology, watershed science, finance, commodities and business studies, mathematics and biomedicine.