ebrary Signs 5 New Publishers

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ebrary Inks Deals with Top International Publishers

Oxford University Press, Brill Academic Publishers, Manchester University
Press, SAGE Publications, and Artech House to distribute online books to
libraries worldwide via the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)�
solution

August 9, 2005 � Palo Alto, CA � ebrary� (www.ebrary.com), a leading
information services and technology provider, today announced that it has
partnered with five new international publishers to make hundreds of
full-text books and other authoritative content available through its
Dynamic Content Platform (DCP), which combines patent-pending research
software with databases of authoritative content from leading publishers.  
The partnerships benefit libraries by providing an affordable way to
provide students with valuable content and unique technology that make the
research experience easier and more productive, while providing new
revenue streams for ebrary�s publishing partners.

"We are pleased to distribute our content online through a company as
innovative as ebrary," said Steve Dane, Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Brill Academic Publishers. "ebrary's sophisticated research tools
and broad international reach support our goal of making outstanding
scholarship more widely available through a product that accommodates each
individual's learning style and needs."

"ebrary continues to grow our catalog of authoritative content from top
international publishers.  We realize that aggregating the highest quality
content, offered under a variety of resale or licensing options, delivers
the greatest value to both our publishing partners and our library
customers around the world," noted Chris Palma, ebrary's Vice President of
Content. "Through these expanded distribution relationships, customers
worldwide will continually have access to the most current content from
many of the world's leading global publishers."

More than 200 of the world�s leading academic, STM, and professional
publishers distribute content through ebrary under one or more of the
following licensing models:

1. Subscription -- Libraries may subscribe to databases of authoritative
content in multiple subject areas under a simultaneous, multi-user access
model.  ebrary offers Growing, Fixed, and Custom subscription databases.

2. Perpetual Access -- Libraries may create and own their own databases of
content under a simultaneous, multi-user or single-user access model.  
Unlike eBooks, no downloading or check-out period is required.

All ebrary products are delivered via the ebrary DCP, which features the
ebrary Reader� and InfoTools software.  The ebrary Reader optimizes
page-by-page delivery of PDF documents, eliminating cumbersome document
downloads and ensuring that any end user - regardless of bandwidth or
connectivity limitations - can use the ebrary system.  InfoTools provides
every ebrary document with word-level interaction.  Just by selecting a
word or phase of interest, students and patrons can instantly link to
other resources in the library, the DCP, or on the Web without losing
their place of reference.

About ebrary's Publishing Partners

Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press, Inc. (OUP USA) publishes works that further
Oxford University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and
education.  OUP USA is by far the largest American university press and
perhaps the most diverse publisher of its type.  OUP USA produces
approximately 500 titles each year, has 3,300 scholarly books in print,
and stocks another 8,700 imports from other OUP offices around the world.

OUP content will greatly enhance ebrary's Academic Complete offerings with
titles from a broad range of academic disciplines, with a strong emphasis
on history and the social sciences.  The selection includes titles from
prize-winning authors such as James McPherson, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
Robert Dallek, Harold Bloom, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Derrick A. Bell, and
Jan Morris.

Brill Academic Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers maintains a strong international focus. The main
subject areas of Brill�s are history, religion, Islamic studies, Asian
studies and classical studies as well as specialist scientific fields.
Brill's mainly English language publications include book series,
individual monographs and encyclopedias and journals.

Under terms of the agreement, Brill Academic Publishers will make
authoritative content available through both ebrary's Academic Complete
subscription database and perpetual access offering.

Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press is the third largest University Press in the
U.K and publishes titles used by academics teaching in higher education,
students and the interested general reader. Currently publishing 120 new
titles a year, Manchester University Press serves the international
academic community and promotes outstanding works of learning and
scholarship that both reflect and enhance The University's authority and
reputation.

With such esteemed titles as Understanding US/UK Government and Politics:
A comparative Guide, Duncan Watts, 2003, and Munitions of the Mind: A
History of Propaganda, Philip M. Taylor, 2003, Manchester University Press
will greatly enhance ebrary's Academic Complete subscription database as
well as its perpetual access offering.

SAGE Publications

SAGE Publications is a leading publisher of journals, books, and
electronic media for scholarly, educational, and professional markets.  
Since 1965, SAGE (www.sagepublications.com) has helped inform and educate
a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students.

SAGE content will enhance ebrary's Academic Complete and Government
Complete subscription databases with current titles in subject areas such
as management, education, research methods, sociology, communication,
health and social care, psychology, politics and geography.  Sample titles
include Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Mental Health Care, Grant, Alec,
2004, and Key Concepts in Medical Sociology, Pilcher, Jane, 2004.

Artech House
Artech House is at the forefront in publishing high quality professional
books for engineers and managers in some of today's hottest technologies.
Highly regarded for its list of both classic and cutting edge titles in
communications technology, computer security, microwave engineering,
radar, antennas, and related areas, Artech�s newest releases include
titles in nanotechnology, microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and
biomedical engineering.

With titles such as Essentials of Modern Telecommunications Systems,
Kularatna and Dias, 2004, and Organic and Inorganic Nanostructures, Alexei
Nabok, 2005, Artech House will add significant value to ebrary's Academic
Complete subscription database as well as its perpetual access products.

About ebrary
ebrary� provides technology solutions and information services that
students, employees, patrons, and staff need to be more productive,
competitive, and knowledgeable.

The company has pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform (DCP), a hosted
information delivery service that features a growing selection of more
than 60,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and
professional publishers.  ebrary license authoritative content such as
full-text books, reports, maps, and other authoritative documents under
both a simultaneous, multi-user subscription and perpetual access model.

Additionally, ebrary offers server-based solutions to easily and
cost-effectively create remote collections and virtual content portals
from any PDF documents stored within a hard drive, database, or content
management system.

All ebrary products feature the ebrary Reader software, which optimizes
online viewing through the 'real-time' conversion of PDF documents into
ebrary's Exchange Data Format (EDF).  EDF serves any PDF file, regardless
of size, through any connected Internet browser, one page at a time,
making the delivery fast and efficient for the viewer.

InfoTools' software is an advanced set of software features within the
ebrary Reader that provides much more powerful and efficient research
capabilities than editorial-based linking or multiple search queries. By
selecting words within a current document, end users can instantly link to
relevant information from other EDF or PDF documents, digital databases,
and resources on the Web.

Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo
Alto, CA.

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