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Special Libraries Association Partners with ebrary to Distribute Information Outlook Online

March 8, 2004 – Palo Alto, CA – ebrary™ (www.ebrary.com), a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval services, today announced that the Special Libraries Association (SLA) is licensing its platform to distribute and archive digital replicas of Information Outlook magazine, its flagship publication, distributed monthly to more than 12,000 special libraries in over 83 countries. Among other benefits, SLA members will now have any time, any where access to a highly interactive, full-text database of Information Outlook dating back to 1997.

“ebrary’s platform enables us to efficiently and cost-effectively create a dynamic, full-text database of SLA publications,” remarked SLA Executive Director Janice R. Lachance. “We are very excited to offer this innovative new product to SLA members.”

Under terms of the agreement, ebrary will host, distribute and archive Information Outlook and other SLA publications using the same, easy-to-use interface used by hundreds of libraries worldwide that subscribe to ebrary’s aggregated book databases and other database products. The SLA database will initially include all Information Outlook issues from 2003 and 2004 as well as the 2003 SLA Salary Survey. Information Outlook editions dating back to its inception in 1997 will be included at a later date.

“ebrary is very excited to be working with the Special Library Association to digitally promote Information Outlook, to innovative information professionals all over the World,” said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. “We look forward to working with SLA to further promote information sharing through the digital distribution of its publications. At the same time, we are pleased to showcase the flexibility of our database technology, which can be leveraged to enhance, distribute and archive multiple document types such as books, journals, magazines, maps, reports and more.”

About SLA

The Special Libraries Association (SLA) is a nonprofit global organization for innovative information professionals and their strategic partners. SLA serves more than 12,000 members in 83 countries in the information profession, including corporate, academic and government information specialists. SLA promotes and strengthens its members through learning, advocacy, and networking initiatives. For more information, visit us on the Web at www.sla.org.

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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