New Collections for the Government Market

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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Marty Moe - ebrary - 650-475-8752 - marty.moe@ebrary.com
Tish Wagner - Wagner Communications - 770-725-0585 - Tish.wagner@ebrary.com

ebrary® Launches New Collections for the Government Market, Announces Pilot Program for New Server-Based Technology for Efficiently DistributingPDF Content Online
March 14, 2005 – Palo Alto, CA – ebrary (www.ebrary.com), a leading information services and technology provider, today announced that several new collections specifically for government and military libraries are now available through the ebrary Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)™. ebrary’s DCP is a hosted content delivery service that combines patent-pending software with full-text books, reports, and other authoritative content from leading STM, academic, and professional publishers. The new collections include Business, Management & Leadership, Computers, Technology & Engineering, International Relations & Military Affairs, Government Affairs, and Science & Environmental Studies.
Additionally, ebrary today announced that it is seeking pilot customers for its new, server-based technology, which will ship in Q3 2005. Code named “Isaac,” this robust technology will revolutionize how PDF content is distributed, shared, and managed from behind an institution’s firewall. Both the ebrary DCP and Isaac include the ebrary Reader™ and InfoTools™. The ebrary Reader optimizes page-by-page delivery of PDF documents. InfoTools seamlessly links search queries to multiple online databases, as well as information on the Web. For more information about the Isaac pilot program please email sales@ebrary.com. Additional information is available at http://www.ebrary.com/corp/techIsaac.htm.

“ebrary believes that our content and technology is an ideal fit for the government and military library markets,” said David Bass, ebrary’s Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing. “With our content collections, libraries can offer patrons simultaneous, multi-user access to authoritative books, reports, and other documents from the world’s leading publishers. With our new server-based technology, institutions can seamlessly integrated, distribute, and share the PDF content they own, produce, or lease within certain departments, within the entire institution, and/or publicly on the Internet. We are very excited to introduce these new products to the government and military industries.”

New Government and Military Collections from ebrary
The following collections are now available through the ebrary DCP. Libraries may also pick and choose among titles in these collections, creating a Custom Collection that meets their specific needs. All ebrary collections are delivered under a simultaneous, multi-user access model. They integrate with a library’s ILS system through MARC records, which ebrary provides at no cost, and the customizable InfoTools menu.

Growing Collections
With more than 15,000 titles (as of 3/1/05), Government Complete includes all aggregated, government Fixed Collections plus thousands of premium titles not available in any other ebrary collection. This collection continues to grow at no additional cost throughout the subscription term and is priced based on full time equivalent (FTE) users.

Fixed Collections
The following Fixed Collections have flat rate pricing.
Business, Management & Leadership
This collection includes 1,408 full-text books, reports, and other authoritative documents from the world’s leading publishers such as AMACOM, Course Technology, Dearborn Trade, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Idea Group Inc., Kogan Page, Limited, McGraw-Hill Professional, Vault, World Bank Publications, World of Information, and World Trade Press. Key subject areas include Accounting & Business Law, Career Development, Economic Development, Economics, Finance, Human Resources Management, International Business, Leadership, Management, and Quality Management.

Computers, Technology & Engineering
ebrary’s Computers, Technology & Engineering collection includes 2,006 full-text books and other authoritative titles, 80% of which were published in the last four years. Key subject areas include Computer Science, Electronics, Engineering, Information Technology & Systems, Materials Science, Math/Statistics, Programming, and Telecommunications. Contributing publishers include Charles River Media, Coriolis Group, LLC, Idea Group, ITRG, McGraw-Hill, National Academies Press, No Starch Press, Paraglyph Press, Springer Verlag, Syngress Publishing, and Taylor & Francis.

Government Affairs
With 2,848 titles, this collection covers a vast range of topics such as Economic Policy & Trade, Education, Elections, Government, Civil Law, Administrative Law, Law Enforcement/Forensic Science/Criminal Justice, Political Science, Public Policy, and Sociology. Key contributing publishers include Brookings Institution Press, Cambridge University Press, Greenwood Publishing Group, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, National Academies Press, Princeton University Press, Routledge, State University of New York (SUNY Press), University of California Press, and University of North Carolina Press.

International Relations & Military Affairs
This collection includes 2,697 titles from the worlds leading STM and academic publishers including Brookings Institution Press, Cambridge University Press, Council on Foreign Relations, MacMillan-Palgrave, Johns Hopkins University Press, Knopf Publishing, Inc., Stanford University Press, Texas A&M University Press, University of North Carolina Press, and Taylor & Francis. It covers topics such as Area Studies, Foreign Language/Translation, Foreign/ International Relations/Affairs, History, International Law, Military History, and Military Science.

Science & Environmental Studies
With 2,363 titles, this collection spans disciplines such as Aerospace Science/Aeronautics/Aviation, Agriculture, Astronomy, Biochemistry, Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Studies, Forestry/Forest Products, Environmental Law, Nuclear Waste, Physics, Transportation. Contributing publishers include BIOS Scientific Publishers Ltd, BMJ Publishing Group, CABI Publishing, Cambridge University Press, Environmental Law Institute, Island Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Karger Publishers, Marcel Dekker Incorporated, National Academies Press, Royal Society of Chemistry, Springer Verlag, and World Health Organization.

About ebrary
ebrary® provides technology solutions and information services that students, employees, patrons, and staff need to be more productive, competitive, and knowledgeable.
The company has pioneered the Dynamic Content Platform (DCP)™, a hosted information delivery service that features a growing selection of more than 60,000 titles from more than 200 leading academic, STM, and professional publishers. ebrary’s DCP provides simultaneous, multi-user access to customizable databases of full-text books, reports, maps, and other authoritative content in multiple subject areas.

ebrary offers server-based, enterprise software solutions, to easily and cost-effectively create remote collections and virtual content portals, from any PDF documents stored within a hard drive, database, or content management system.
All ebrary products feature the ebrary Reader™, which optimizes online viewing through the “real-time” conversion of PDF documents into ebrary’s Exchange Data Format™ (EDF). EDF serves any PDF file, regardless of size, through any connected Internet browser, one page at a time, making the delivery fast and efficient for the viewer.
InfoTools™ is an advanced set of software features within the ebrary Reader that provides much more powerful and efficient research capabilities than editorial-based linking or multiple search queries. By selecting words within a current document, end users can instantly link to relevant information from other EDF or PDF documents, digital databases, and resources on the Web.

Founded in 1999, ebrary is privately held and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.