FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HARRASSOWITZ and TDNet sign agreement to provide e-contentmanagement services

[KKlemperer@ottosvc.com]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TDNet and HARRASSOWITZ to collaborate in providing e-content management
solutions.

April 1, 2003, West Chester, PA, & Wiesbaden, Germany:

Through an agreement reached in March, 2003, TDNet [http://www.tdnet.com],
a leading supplier of electronic resource management solutions, and
HARRASSOWITZ [http://www.harrassowitz.de], a major periodicals
subscription agent, will collaborate to provide complete and consolidated
access to electronic content for libraries in the USA and Canada.  The
collaboration will begin in April, 2003.

Through this agreement, HARRASSOWITZ will act as agent to supply TDNet
services in the USA and Canada, making it possible for libraries to manage
their electronic resources through one source.  In addition, subscription
information from e-journals purchased through HARRASSOWITZ will
automatically be included in a library's TDNet services.  As a result,
libraries will gain consolidated access to all of the e-journals that they
are licensed to use, including their individual subscriptions supplied by
HARRASSOWITZ as well as those licensed via aggregator or gateway systems.
TDNet provides complete e-content management services, including A-to-Z
title lists, searchable tables of contents, links to full text, TOC
alerts, usage statistics and MARC cataloging data.

According to TDNet's Michael Markwith, "Working with HARRASSOWITZ allows
us to take advantage of HARRASSOWITZ's superior customer service
organization to establish relationships with a large number of libraries
in the USA and Canada.  By responding jointly to libraries' RFP's, TDNet
and HARRASSOWITZ will be able to provide complete and consolidated
e-journal access to these libraries."

Dr. Knut Dorn, Managing Partner of HARRASSOWITZ, said, "TDNet's products
are a logical extension of our services.  This collaboration will give our
customers the opportunity to develop collections of e-journals that
include individual subscriptions as well as pre-packaged aggregations.  
Libraries will now be able to regain control over their
collection-development decisions and overcome the unpredictability in
coverage often found in other aggregated collections."

About TDNet.  TDNet's unique solutions to electronic contents and
electronic journals management are based on an original approach
integrating a diversity of access modes to electronic sources, on one
unified, coherent site. TDNet is a custom-made eContents service, tailored
to include all of a library's chosen titles, and to reflect the library's
current access arrangements for every title. TDNet's database currently
holds over 50,000 e-journal web sites and table of contents records.

About HARRASSOWITZ.  HARRASSOWITZ is a global full-service subscription
agent and bookseller headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, specializing in
service to academic and research libraries.  HARRASSOWITZ has been in
continuous operation since 1872.

Contact Information:

Michael Markwith, President, TDNet Inc.
(Michael@tdnet.teldan.com)
PO Box 38
West Chester, PA
Telephone: (888) 705-3582
Fax: (610) 738-9124

Knut Dorn, Ph.D., Managing Partner, HARRASSOWITZ (kdorn@harrassowitz.de)
Wiesbaden, Germany
Telephone: +49 611 530 200
Fax:  +49 611 530 560.
In the US: (800) 348-6886 Fax (251) 342-5732