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R.R. Bowker® Signs Licensing Agreement With ebrary® To Create Powerful Library Research Tools

New Providence, N.J. – November 6, 2002 – R.R. Bowker, one of the world’s leading publishers of bibliographic information, will begin selling a customized Bowker-ebrarian® research database to librarians, library patrons, students and faculty as the result of a recently signed licensing agreement with ebrary, a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval services.

The new Bowker-ebrarian research database—accessible from booksinprint.com® and globalbooksinprint.com®—will provide simultaneous, multi-user access to a searchable collection of full text from more than 13,000 books and other authoritative content derived from 130 of the world’s leading publishers. It easily integrates with a library’s existing ILS system and can be used to search by keyword or phrase through dictionaries, encyclopedias, Web sites and other reference materials.

In addition to the new research database, Bowker will also make available to its booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com subscribers the capability to freely view the full text of titles available with ebrary’s PDF-based technology. From the title record in booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com, users will see a button to quickly view the full text where available. However, to conduct actual research using a wide range of electronic resources, users must subscribe separately to the new Bowker-ebrarian research database.

“This partnership with ebrary will enable our library users to not only make more informed collection development and interlibrary loan decisions, but also provides an electronic resource to conduct actual research using a wide range of sources,” said Michael Cairns, president of New Providence, N.J.-based R.R. Bowker. “We have a proud history of being a leading provider of bibliographic information to libraries, and this agreement represents a major step forward in our strategy to continue providing value-added electronic research tools as well.”

“Bowker has 130 years of experience in this market and ranks as the world’s leading source for bibliographic products, so we are delighted that they will be reselling our ebrarian database and integrating our technology into booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com,” said Christopher Warnock, chief executive officer of Mountain View, Calif.-based ebrary. “Through our partnership, we can fulfill our mutual goal of providing the highest level of services to librarians, staff and patrons.”

Founded in 1872, R.R. Bowker, a Cambridge Information Group company, is North America’s leading provider of bibliographic information, and is also the official agency for assigning ISBNs in the United States. The company’s flagship product, Books In Print®, is available on the Internet at www.booksinprint.com, on CD-ROM and in hardbound print format. For more information, please visit www.bowker.com or call 888-BOWKER2 (1-888-269-5372).

ebrary is a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval services. The ebrarian solution enables libraries, institutions and other organizations to give their users access to authoritative materials and customizable research tools that allow them to automatically access additional materials, biographical information, maps, translations, definitions and more when words or phrases are selected. ebrary’s publishing partners benefit from new sales and marketing opportunities on the Internet. ebrary is privately held and is funded by Random House Ventures LLC, Pearson plc and The McGraw-Hill Companies. For more information, visit www.ebrary.com.

Books In Print is a registered trademark, and booksinprint.com and globalbooksinprint.com are trademarks of R.R. Bowker LLC.

About ebrary

ebrary is a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval services. The company has developed a powerful system that cost-effectively and -efficiently creates highly interactive, online content databases, from which it produces numerous market-specific applications. ebrary was named to the 2003 eContent 100 list of leading companies in the digital content industry.

ebrary licenses its unique database technology to organizations that seek to reduce costs, increase revenues and improve efficiency by securely distributing their own content over the Internet. ebrary also uses its own technology to create databases containing content from leading publishers, which it then licenses to libraries and other institutions worldwide. ebrary currently offers over 40,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports and other authoritative documents from more than 180 leading academic, trade and professional publishers. The company also operates a consumer-facing site– ebrary Discover – designed for individuals that do not have access to its database collections through their library. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Palo Alto, CA with offices in New York, ebrary is privately held and funded by Random House Ventures LLC, Pearson plc and The McGraw-Hill Companies.

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