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ebrary Announces New Partnerships, Expands Global Reach - Seven New Distributors Key to Securing ebrary Customers in 41 Different Countries

PALO ALTO, CA (ots)

ebrary® (www.ebrary.com), a leading
provider of information distribution and retrieval services, today
announced that it has partnered with seven new international
distributors to aggressively sell its online book databases and other
products to libraries around the globe. To-date, ebrary and its
growing roster of international partners have signed library
customers in 41 different countries. With these new partnerships,
ebrary is expanding its presence for the first time into several
markets, including Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Southern Asia and
South Africa, and solidifying its presence in others, including
Western Europe and the Middle East.
"ebrary's databases of full-text books, reports, maps and other
documents are increasingly in demand overseas among librarians who
need to cost-effectively and efficiently provide researchers with
access to authoritative information," said Mr. Andrea Test, Sales
Manager, Databases and Electronic Publications Department, E.S.
Burioni. "With ebrary, libraries can now offer powerful research
tools and simultaneous, multi-user access to tens of thousands of
full-text titles from the world's leading publishers in a secure
environment that integrates with their ILS systems and digital
resources. We are very excited to offer ebrary's innovative products
to our customers."
ebrary's new international distributors include: Albertina icome
Praha s.r.o. (Czech Republic, Slovakia); Edutech (Middle East,
India); E.S. Burioni Ricerche Bibliografiche (Italy, Italian Speaking
Switzerland); Integrated Information Networks (Iran, and Commonwealth
of Independent States); Iscientia (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg,
France); Lilita d.o.o. (Croatia); and Swets Information Services
(South Africa).
Among the international distribution partners that ebrary has
previously announced are Coutts (U.K); e-Libro Inc. (Latin America,
Spain); iGroup (Asia); and PrioInfo Försäljningskontor (Scandinavia).
Additionally, ebrary and Cyberlibris, a leading provider of
educational technology and content in Europe, have sealed a strategic
partnership to deliver a premium service centered around an
innovative web-based platform that enables users at business schools
and corporate training programs to gain permanent access to:
1. 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.
2. 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.
"We are proud to have established partnerships with these highly
esteemed companies, and we will continue to partner with leading
distributors of electronic information products as we continue to
expand ebrary's global reach," said Mohamad Al-Baghdadi, Vice
President, International Sales at ebrary. "In addition to benefiting
international libraries, which now have the convenience of
subscribing to our full-text databases through local distributors,
these partnerships also open the door to unprecedented new revenue
opportunities for our publishing partners."
About Albertina icome Praha s.r.o. (www.aip.cz)
Albertina icome Praha s.r.o. is the leading provider of electronic
information resources in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia, with a
customer base that includes most of the academic and university
libraries, medical and other specialty libraries, government
institutions, public libraries, and corporate information centers in
the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Founded 1995, Albertina pioneered
the consortium licensing concept in the Czech Republic and continues
its leadership in the field through its participation in numerous
consortium-based projects.
About EDUTECH (www.edutech.com)
EDUTECH is a leading provider of Knowledge Solutions to
organizations committed to accelerating growth by fulfilling the
potential of their people. Edutech serves the education and
electronic information needs of educational institutions, government,
military, and leading companies in every business sector throughout
the Middle East and India. EDUTECH has partnerships with the world's
leading publishers and technology providers in education, training
and information to provide a comprehensive range of solutions and
services. EDUTECH is headquartered in Dubai Internet City and has
offices in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Mumbai and Bangalore.
About E.S. Burioni Ricerche Bibliografiche (www.burioni.it)
E.S. Burioni is a leading distributor of electronic publication to
the Italian library market, with a customer base that numbers all
important academic, corporate, public and governmental libraries
across the country. The company's mission is to supply academic
institutions, research bodies, companies and professionals with
high-quality information resources through leading edge technology.
About Integrated Information Networks (www.iingroups.com)
Integrated Information Networks (IIN) is the leading distributor
of scientific, industrial, and trade information in the Middle East,
Iran and the CIS. The company delivers up-to-date information from
the most prominent international publishers, to academic institutions
such as libraries, universities and research centers, corporations,
professional societies and national libraries. In addition, IIN
provides highly integrated solutions for comprehensive digital
libraries, and establishes digital libraries for a wide range of
organizations (e.g., Medical, Engineering), and at various levels,
including national, regional, target-specific and campus-wide.
About Iscientia (IVS nv/sa ) (www.iscientia.com)
IVS nv/sa is a leading provider of reference and knowledge
databases as well as instant document delivery services and full text
solutions. IVS ( IScientia.com) provides crucial scientific,
healthcare, business and engineering research information from the
world's leading publishers to professional and academic users
enabling them to make results-oriented decisions. IVS is the
preferred electronic information business partner of hundreds of
academic, public, and corporate libraries throughout Belgium,
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France.
About Lilita d.o.o. (http://www.lilita.hr)
Based in Croatia, Lilita is a supplier of scientific,
technological and business information and offers a substantial
variety of information products and services to libraries,
information centers, industry, individuals and others. The firm
provides prompt, comprehensive information on a wide variety of
subject areas and academic disciplines, including science and
technology, engineering, medical and biosciences, earth sciences,
astronomy, agriculture, business, economics, information technology
and finance.
About Swets Information Services (South Africa)
Swets Information Services is one of the world's largest providers
of subscription and information management solutions. It offers a
wide range of services to its 60,000 corporate, academic, R&D,
medical, and government library and information center clients
worldwide, whose ranks include over 30% of Fortune 500 companies.
Swets Information Services works in partnership with 65,000 major
publishers and suppliers of professional information. It has annual
revenues in excess of US$1 billion and a staff of over 1,000
employees worldwide. Its head office is located in Lisse, the
Netherlands, and it maintains offices in 23 countries across six
continents.
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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