News Release: CNSLP Licenses IDEAL

[Ann Okerson <aokerson@pantheon.yale.edu>]

Date: Fri,  8 Jun 2001 21:50:49 EDT
From: ddecooman@acad.com
Subject: News Release:  CNSLP Licenses IDEAL

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CANADIAN NATIONAL SITE-LICENSING PROJECT
Signs Agreement with IDEAL� to Deliver Online Access Across Canada

San Diego, June 8, 2001 - The Canadian National Site Licensing Project
(CNSLP) has signed an historic pan-Canadian license for IDEAL, the
pioneering online resource library at <http://www.idealibrary.com>. This
agreement grants approximately 650,000 academic researchers and students
in 64 institutions across Canada access to all 177 Academic Press (AP)
journals published electronically on IDEAL.

This is the first national license delivering IDEAL to academic end-users
in North America. By uniting Canadian universities in one license
(including 21 universities previously licensed to access IDEAL), CNSLP has
surmounted budgetary challenges at some universities and achieved
nationwide access to IDEAL's collection of Academic Press journals.

CNSLP Executive Director Deb deBruijn stated: "The CNSLP is delighted to
announce the inclusion of IDEAL in our first major licensing round. We're
also licensing journals from six other publishers:  the Royal Society of
Chemistry, the American Mathematical Society, and the American Chemical
Society, as well as the Institute of Physics, ISI Web of Science, and
Springer Verlag.

"Inclusion of the IDEAL library recognizes the innovative leadership at
Harcourt and the outstanding value of IDEAL's content and its electronic
features. This IDEAL license has been signed through a collaborative
effort on the part of Canada's higher-education institutions that is
unprecedented in scope and impact. We look forward to benefiting greatly
from our investment in IDEAL."

University of Ottawa's Vice-Rector, Research, Dr. Howard Alper, who heads
the CNSLP Steering Committee, commented: "To remain internationally
competitive, Canadian researchers require speedy and convenient access to
the world's primary scholarly literature. National site-licensing allows
us to provide university researchers and graduate students across Canada
with electronic access to the leading journals in their fields. Our new
IDEAL license moves us along strongly towards CNSLP's goals."

Administered at the University of Ottawa, the CNSLP is an ongoing
initiative encompassing a far-flung group of universities located
throughout Canada's ten provinces. This initiative seeks to secure
licenses for electronic journals primarily in science, engineering, health
and the environment, and to provide academic researchers at the
participating institutions with online access to such journals.

Now in its second year, the CNSLP is funded through support provided by
the Canada Foundation for Innovation, member universities and other
revenue partners such as provincial governments. The value of the
three-year initiative is $50 million in Canadian dollars. More information
about the CNSLP and a list of the 64 participating institutions appear at
<http://wwww.uottawa.ca/library/cnslp/>.

IDEAL, the International Digital Electronic Access Library, is licensed in
32 countries by more than 2,000 academic institutions and industrial and
pharmaceutical companies. Over 10 million users worldwide are authorized
to use IDEAL.

In addition to Academic Press journals, IDEAL offers 143 currently
published journals from Harcourt Health Sciences - comprising Bailli�re
Tindall, Churchill Livingstone, Mosby, and W.B. Saunders imprints. IDEAL
includes more than 200,000 journal articles.

IDEAL further delivers access to a growing and diverse body of other
electronic research products such as IDEALReferenceWorks encyclopedias and
informatics databases from SciVision.

IDEAL is the online library of the Harcourt Worldwide STM Group. Academic
Press is a Harcourt Science and Technology Company and part of Harcourt's
Worldwide Scientific, Technical and Medical Group. Academic Press is an
international multiple-media publisher of high-quality journals, book
serials, major reference works, databases, textbooks and monographs.

Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Harcourt, Inc., Harcourt General
(NYSE: H) is a leading global multiple-media publisher, providing products
and services to classroom, corporate, research, medical and consumer
markets.

IDEAL is a registered trademark of Harcourt, Inc. More information about
IDEAL appears at <http://www.idealibrary.com>. # # #



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