SilverPlatter and KR SourceOne enter into agreement providing document delivery services

Business Wire, Dec 26, 1996

NORWOOD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 26, 1996--SilverPlatter Information and KR SourceOnesm have entered into an agreement to provide document delivery services to Internet subscribers of SilverPlatter Information's electronic databases.

As part of SilverPlatter's Internet Subscription Service, searchers using WebSPIRS will have the option of electronically submitting orders for journal articles that are referenced in bibliographic citations.

This new document delivery service is SilverPlatter's first step in providing access to full content and will be augmented later this year by links to electronically-stored documents.

Searchers viewing the record using WebSPIRS, will see a new button labeled `ORDER DOCUMENT' that will appear after the citation information for journal articles. Clicking this button will place an electronic order for the complete document with KR SourceOne, a full-service document provider that supplies the full text of journal articles and other document types via fax, first-class mail, express mail and internet mail. Subscribers may open an account with KR SourceOne for this service or they may choose to pay by credit card. WebSPIRS delivers an e-mail confirmation of the document order to the users.

KR SourceOne, the one-stop document delivery arm of Knight-Ridder Information, Inc., provides access to a global collection of over 1.5 million titles including patents, conference proceedings, business articles, books and personal manuscripts from 35 of the world's leading libraries and universities. Documents are often delivered within 1-to-2 hours and those from outside sources reach the searcher in one to two weeks or even sooner.

Knight-Ridder Information, Inc. is the acknowledged leader in electronic information access and delivery with over 250,000 customers in almost 150 countries. The company offers a range of complementary information services and can be reached by phone at 415-254-8800 or at http://www.krinfo.com on the Internet. Knight- Ridder Information is a subsidiary of Knight-Ridder, Inc. (NYSE: KRI.)

SilverPlatter Information provides electronic access to quality bibliographic and full-text databases using innovative technology via local, intranet and Internet access. SilverPlatter works collaboratively with publishers and data owners, library system vendors and distributors worldwide to make available the widest range of quality databases and the greatest choice of access.

With these partners, SilverPlatter shares its Electronic Reference Library (ERL) Technology, so that it can be used as a common technological framework on which digital libraries can be created and interconnected to form a Worldwide Library.

For more information about this and other SilverPlatter products please visit the SilverPlatter website at http://www.silverplatter.com/. Or call your local distributor or SilverPlatter representative at 1-800-343-0064 or 617-769-8763 in Massachusetts.

CONTACT: Patricia M. Samson, 1-800-343-0064

or 1-617-769-2599, x189

pats@silverplatter.com