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Freely Viewable Books and Maps on the Middle East Now Available Online Through ebrary® - ebrary Aims to Help Facilitate Learning and Information Sharing Worldwide

Palo Alto, CA (ots)

ebrary (www.ebrary.com), a leading provider
of information distribution and retrieval services, today announced
that it is offering online access to a freely viewable collection of
approximately 100 full- text books and maps on the Middle East and
related issues. Available today at discover.ebrary.com, the
collection represents an invaluable resource for understanding Middle
Eastern culture, politics, and history, as well as the great
challenges facing nation- builders in the wake of the Iraq War. From
any web-enabled computer, individuals can find authoritative
resources on topics such as the technology behind modern warfare, the
influence of electronic journalism on foreign policy, the history and
rise of radical Islam, and the prospects for peace in Israel.
ebrary's Middle East collection features ebrary InfoTools™, the
company's sophisticated research technology that provides word-level
interaction. Simply by selecting words, researchers may instantly
link to additional information on the Middle East within the ebrary
collection, or access resources on the web such as definitions,
encyclopedic abstracts, biographical information, translations and
more.
"The skyrocketing number of people who rely on the Internet to
learn and conduct research do not realize that the majority of
authoritative information from books is currently not available
online," said Christopher Warnock, CEO of ebrary. "ebrary is very
proud to offer a remarkable online selection of full-text books and
maps to anyone interested in learning more about Middle Eastern
history, politics, geography and other relevant topics."
Viewing and browsing through ebrary's Middle Eastern collection is
free. To compensate its publishing partners, ebrary charges a small
fee for printing and copying text. Researchers that access ebrary's
books on the Middle East through subscribing libraries are not
required to pay.
In a separate press release issued today, ebrary announced the
availability of ebrary Discover, a new fee-based website for
independent researchers that offers anytime, anywhere access to over
20,000 authoritative titles including books in full-text, sheet
music, reports and other authoritative documents from more than 150
leading publishers such as Cambridge University Press, Random House,
Inc., and The McGraw-Hill Companies. The press release is available
at www.ebrary.com. Discover ebrary at discover.ebrary.com.
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
databases of content, and offers numerous applications to multiple
markets.
ebrary licenses its unique database technology to organizations
that need to securely distribute their own content over the Internet
to reduce costs, increase revenues and improve efficiency.
Additionally, using its own technology, ebrary create databases of
content from leading publishers, which it licenses to libraries and
other institutions worldwide. ebrary currently offers over 30,000
full text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports and other
authoritative documents from more than 150 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, ebrary is privately held and is funded by Random
House Ventures LLC, Pearson plc and The McGraw-Hill Companies. ebrary
is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA with offices in New York.
Contact: Marty Moe 
Company: ebrary
Phone: +1 650-475-8752 
Email:  marty.moe@ebrary.com

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