Major Advances in SwetsWise's Ease of Use: PPV & Proxy

[Ylann Schemm <yschemm@nl.swets.com>]

PRESS RELEASE

Lisse, the Netherlands
April 16th 2004 

Major Advances in SwetsWise's Ease of Use

Pay-per-view for nearly 3,500 journals and 60% proxy authentication

Swets Information Services announced today that it has successfully
established a pay-per-view service for almost 3,500 journals in SwetsWise,
Swets' web-based modular service for the procurement, access and
management of subscriptions and online information.

SwetsWise's pay-per-view journal service greatly expands content
accessibility to end users, while vastly reducing interlibrary loan and
document delivery costs for libraries. Customers can purchase articles
directly via individual credit card, invoice or an organizational
invoicing account. An organizational invoicing account depends on the
arrangements customers have with individual publishers and provides
complete control over buyer authorization, spending allowance and the type
of content available for purchase. SwetsWise's new pay-per-view service
affords the more than 70 participating publishers with additional revenue
streams by selling content on a per-article basis to non-subscribers.

Swets also continues to place a high priority on seamless linking through
longstanding proxy arrangements with nearly 100 publishers. SwetsWise's
proxy service provides subscribers with instantaneous access to articles
of choice without being interrupted by additional authentication requests.
SwetsWise proxy service grants customers access to the full text within 24
hours of processing the order.

Steven Hartman, Swets Information Services' Chief Commercial Officer,
notes: "SwetsWise's comprehensive pay-per-view and proxy services form an
integral part of Swets' e-journal management drive to improve content
accessibility and seamless linking for its customers."

About Swets Information Services

Swets Information Services is one of the world's largest providers of
subscription and information management solutions. It offers a wide range
of services to its 60,000 corporate, academic, R&D, medical, and
government library and information center clients worldwide, whose ranks
include over 30% of Fortune 500 companies. Swets Information Services
works in partnership with 65,000 major publishers and suppliers of
professional information. It has annual revenues in excess of US$1 billion
and a staff of over 1,000 employees worldwide. The head office is located
in Lisse, the Netherlands, and Swets' maintains offices in 23 countries
across six continents. www.swets.com

About SwetsWise

Chief among Swets' innovative solutions is SwetsWise (www.swetswise.com)
The service offers one platform with two modules: SwetsWise subscriptions
and SwetsWise online content. The subscription module gives full control
over all steps of the subscription management process, while the online
content module enables management and online access to electronic
publications. Customers can benefit from either module separately or
choose to use the full power of both modules integrated. By handling every
aspect from pricing to provision, SwetsWise enables organizations to order
and manage subscriptions as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

Media Contact
Ylann Schemm 
External Communications Executive
Swets Information Services
P.O. Box 830
2160 SZ Lisse, The Netherlands
T: +31 (0) 252 435 584
F: +31 (0) 252 435 514
E: press@nl.swets.com
www.swets.com