Oxford Scholarship Online E-books Available on the ebrary Platform

Business Wire, March 4, 2008

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that it has partnered with Oxford University Press to make the titles found on its prestigious Oxford Scholarship Online product (OSO) available to libraries worldwide on the ebrary platform, which integrates multiple online resources and features unique tools for conducting research easily and efficiently. Libraries will be able to purchase individual e-books in the OSO collection directly through ebrary or through its global distribution partners including Blackwell and YBP.

Additionally, libraries save off list price when they buy any of the nearly 3,000 Oxford University Press e-books and other content from ebrary's growing selection of over 60,700 titles available for purchase. For every USD 2,000 spent on purchased titles, ebrary will subsidize 1% of the total list price, up to a 10% discount.

Deemed "a must-have online resource" by Library Journal's netConnect, the OSO product includes the most essential scholarly titles in the Social Sciences and Humanities published by Oxford University Press. The selection also covers subject areas such as Business & Management, Economics & Finance, Biology, Physics and Psychology, Mathematics, Political Science, Philosophy, Religion, Classics, History, Linguistics and Literature.

"Oxford University Press has long been an ebrary publishing partner, and we look forward to extending our relationship by distributing OSO titles on the ebrary platform," said Evan Schnittman, VP of Business Development at Oxford University Press. "Not only will we provide libraries with the ability to acquire the authoritative content they need on the platform of their choice, we will be able to more efficiently distribute all of our titles to ebrary's expanding global customer base."

"Oxford University Press is one of the most prestigious and diverse publishers in the world, publishing works that further its objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education," said Kevin Sayar, President of ebrary. "We are extremely proud to build upon our existing relationship with OUP by distributing its valuable titles in the OSO product to our customers, both directly and through our global distribution partners."

About Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford University Press had its origins in the information technology revolution of the late fifteenth century, which began with the invention of printing from movable type. The first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, only two years after Caxton set up the first printing press in England. Please visit http://www.oup.com for further information.

About ebrary (www.ebrary.com)

ebrary[R] is a leading provider of e-content services and technology. The company helps libraries, publishers, and other organizations disseminate valuable information to end users, while improving their research and document interaction.

The company has developed a flexible e-content platform, which customers may use in a number of different, integrated capacities: ebrary customers may purchase or subscribe to e-books and other content under a variety of pricing and access models, and they may license the ebrary platform to distribute, sell, and market their own content online. All options are delivered using a customizable interface and include the ebrary Reader[TM] with InfoTools[TM] software, which enable integration with other resources to provide an economical and efficient way to utilize information.

ebrary currently offers a growing selection of more than 170,000 e-books and other titles from more than 290 leading publishers and aggregators.

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