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Cyberlibris and ebrary have joined forces to develop a unique service dedicated to business schools, corporate universities and training centres that will enable these institutions to leverage their pedagogy, research and delivery capabilities.

This premium service is centered around an innovative web-based platform that enables users to gain permanent access to:

A specifically customized portfolio of premium managerial and economics content sourced from major French and Anglo-saxon publishers as well as respected international business experts and organizations.
A rich set of interactive tools that bolster teaching and learning by enabling teachers, students and trainees to communicate smoothly and at their own pace.

Current institutions powered by this service include:

Euromed-Marseille
Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci- Paris
Groupe Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de la Rochelle
ESG- Paris
Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Pau
Université des Antilles et de la Guyane- French West Indies
Ecole des Cadres et des Créateurs d’Entreprises- Paris
Solvay School of Business- Brussels- Belgium
Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Tunis - Tunisia
ESCA- Casablanca - Morocco
Université St Esprit - Lebanon

For more information:

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Or see http://www.ebrary.com/news/031006.jsp

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At Cyberlibris François Lascaux Managing director francois.l@cyberlibris.com		At ebrary Mohamad Al-Baghdadi Vice Président, International & Channel Development malbaghdadi@ebrary.com

At Cyberlibris Fran�ois Lascaux, Managing director, francois.l@cyberlibris.com At ebrary Mohamad Al-Baghdadi., Vice Président, International & Channel Development, malbaghdadi@ebrary.com . ebrary partners with Blackwell’s: New Technology Provides Powerful Tool for Publishers and Libraries

December 17, 2002 – Mountain View, CA – Blackwell’s Book Services (www.blackwell.com), a leading book supplier to the library market, today announced that its Collection Manager purchasing system for libraries now includes a full-text preview feature powered by ebrary® (www.ebrary.com), a leading provider of information distribution and retrieval technology that serves publishers and libraries worldwide.

Available today, the new technology helps publishers increase sales of print books to libraries by showcasing exact replicas of books, particularly pre-publication and frontlist titles. Additionally, it allows libraries to make more informed purchases by searching and browsing books in full-text before ordering, thus reducing the number of returns.

“By partnering with ebrary, Collection Manager advances to another level by allowing print books to be searched and browsed in full-text before purchase by libraries,” said Dan Halloran, President and CEO of Blackwell’s Book Services. “Because ebrary is based on the portable document format (PDF), the de facto industry standard, publishers can efficiently submit their titles into Collection Manager and market them to librarians even before they appear in print. Not only does this increase sales and lower returns, it also can greatly reduce costs associated with printing and mailing sample copies or notification slips. ebrary brings tremendous market value to Blackwell’s, and we look forward in continuing to deepen our relationship with them over time.”

“Partnering with Blackwell’s is a very strategic move for ebrary for a number of reasons: It provides a new channel for our publishing partners who need a secure and effective way to showcase frontlist titles to librarians in full-text; provides us the ability to dramatically increase the value of our library products by allowing publishers to automatically migrate books from Collection Manager into our ebrarian® for Libraries database on their own timetables; and enables us to build branding and adoption by integrating with a service that is used by more than 15,000 libraries throughout the world,” said Tom Turvey, VP, Content & Business Development for ebrary. “Blackwell’s is a perfect fit for our technology, and for our company.”

“Ever since we started ebrary we have promised publishers that we'd help them utilize the Internet to increase sales of their physical books," said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. "This partnership with Blackwells is the latest development in this continuing quest."

About Collection Manager

Collection Manager, Blackwell’s web-based collection development and acquisitions tool, provides access to a database of over 2.3 million bibliographic records representing the top scholarly and academic titles in the world. Tables of Content (TOC), author affiliations, and information from book jackets are also included.

About Blackwell’s

Blackwell's Book Services (BBS) provides a full range of traditional library bookselling services integrated with the latest in library technology and technical services. The company specializes in the supply of books and value-added bibliographic products and services to over 15,000 academic, research and special libraries in over 120 countries around the world. Blackwell's Book Services firm order service covers virtually the entire publication output of close to 50,000 scholarly, professional, and trade presses.

Blackwell's Book Services headquarters are located in Lake Oswego, Oregon, with offices in Oxford, England, Sydney, Australia and Blackwood New Jersey.

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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