News Release: New contract for Blackwell Synergy

["Gillingham Emily" <Emily.Gillingham@oxon.blackwellpublishing.com>]

-- Blackwell Publishing Signs New Contract with Atypon --
Move aims to grow online journals platform, Blackwell Synergy

SANTA CLARA, CA and OXFORD, UK -- (BusinessWire) - July 7, 2005 -
Blackwell Publishing has signed a new contract with Atypon Systems to
renew its license of Literatum, Atypon's e-publishing software platform,
and the hosting service that currently powers Blackwell Synergy
(http://www.blackwell-synergy.com)  The new three-year contract will allow
room for considerable growth of Synergy and will ensure that Blackwell
continues to serve the diverse needs of the scholarly community.

Blackwell Synergy is established as the journals platform of choice for
millions of researchers, students, professors, librarians and
practitioners across a broad range of subject areas; from astronomy to
xenotransplantation, and from pediatrics to political science.  As the
world's leading society publisher, Blackwell Publishing has partnerships
with more than 600 international scholarly and professional societies and
provides access to their journals on the Synergy platform.

"Our partnership has been very successful in delivering growth through
Synergy, both in terms of the increasing number of journals that Blackwell
publishes and in the expanding reach of those journals - with ever more
libraries and readers accessing the content worldwide," said Georgios
Papadopoulos, Atypon CEO.  "We're excited about building on that success
and growing our relationship with Blackwell to explore new technologies
that will allow Synergy to demonstrate what is possible for scholarly
electronic publishing."

Atypon has been the technology partner for Blackwell Synergy since 2001.
With the new contract Blackwell is extending the role of Atypon to include
responsibility for all aspects of software and hardware and has increased
the development budget for the duration of the agreement to resource plans
for new functionality and to help reach new markets.

"It is clear that Atypon's Literatum platform surpasses its peers in
technology and functionality," said Gordon Tibbitts, President of
Blackwell Publishing Inc.  "In an age when online delivery of research is
becoming the norm and with continuous developments in such areas as
backfile digitization, search engines, and library management tools, it's
essential for us to have an innovative and reliable partner like Atypon to
work with."

Librarians and scholars using Blackwell Synergy can expect excellent
service and continued improvements in functionality and delivery of
Blackwell's premier online journals collection.

--About Atypon--

Since 1996, Atypon Systems, Inc. has focused on providing software and
services to the information industry. Atypon offers a suite of electronic
publishing software and related services for scholarly publishers and
other content providers.  Atypon's Literatum platform powers major
websites such as Blackwell Synergy, Annual Reviews, the University of
California Press. In all there are more than 60 publishers and 500
societies that publish their content using Literatum. Researchers
everywhere experience the benefits of Literatum every time they link from
a citation to an article through CrossRef, since Literatum is the
technology behind CrossRef as well.

Other Atypon services include PDFplus, which dynamically adds links to
PDFs, and LINKplus, a full service XML linking solution for publishers.
Additional Atypon technologies include custom publishing software
solutions, auto-classification and knowledge discovery products, and
Internet marketing tools to help publishers use their online presence to
grow.

The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and maintains an
office in Oxford as well as a sales office in New York, NY.  For more
information on Atypon Systems, please visit http://www.atypon.com

--About Blackwell Publishing--

Blackwell Publishing is the world's leading society publisher, partnering
with more than 600 academic and professional societies. Blackwell
publishes over 750 journals and 600 text and reference books annually,
across a wide range of academic, medical, and professional subjects.  The
company remains independent with over 900 staff members in offices in the
US, UK, Australia, China, Denmark, Germany, and Japan.

Blackwell's mission as an expert publisher is to create long-term
partnerships with our clients that enhance learning, disseminate research,
and improve the quality of professional practice.  For more information on
Blackwell Publishing, please visit http://www.blackwellpublishing.com or
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com

-- Contact --

Kristen Fisher Ratan
Director of Marketing
Atypon Systems
Tel: 1-408-988-1240 ext. 315
kristen@atypon.com

Ginny Foley
PR Manager
Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Tel: 1-781-388-8334 
vfoley@bos.blackwellpublishing.com