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Weekly News Digest
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June 4, 2001 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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ebrary Announces New Content Providers, New Distribution Partner
ebrary, Inc. (http://www.ebrary.com) has announced that it has signed agreements with 12 university presses for content. These new content providers are MIT Press, University of California Press, Stanford University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Texas Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Marquette University Press, Purdue University Press, and University of Utah Press.Under terms of the agreements, the university presses will provide ebrary with thousands of titles ranging from business and finance to anthropology and zoology. Many of these works will be available to ebrary's online channel partners, such as e-learning providers, Internet portals, and library Web sites, as part of the ebrarian solution, and will also be available on the ebrary.com site, which has not yet officially launched. ebrary also announced that it has partnered with Bertelsmann subsidiary Springer-Verlag (http://www.springer-ny.com), a leading scientific publisher, to make mathematics and statistics collections available through ebrarian and ebrary.com. Finally, ebrary announced that the Learning Network (http://www.learningnetwork.com), part of media company Pearson, PLC, will utilize the ebrarian solution for channel partners. With ebrarian, the Learning Network will provide its community of students, professionals, and lifelong learners with access to ebrary content. ebrary is privately held and is funded by Random House Ventures, LLC; Pearson, PLC; and McGraw-Hill. Source: ebrary, Inc.
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