NoveList® and COMPanion® Partner to Improve Access
~ NoveList Select® Can Now Be Integrated Into The Alexandria Library System~

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 27, 2011 — NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), and COMPanion® have announced a partnership that will enrich K-12 reading curriculum by providing book recommendations to students and offering curriculum-based activities to teachers and school librarians.

NoveList®Select, can now be seamlessly integrated into COMPanion’s Alexandria Library Automation Program. With NoveList Select in Alexandria, when a student searches for a book via the Alexandria portal, NoveList Select will return reading recommendations based on that book—and based on titles that the library owns.

The agreement between these two organizations brings decades of experience in school libraries directly into classrooms, and could potentially benefit students and teachers in thousands of schools. The relationship between NoveList and COMPanion allows reading recommendations to be displayed directly into the catalogs of the more than 10,000 schools that use the Alexandria catalog. The joint services they provide help stimulate reading and library use by helping patrons find resources that interest them whether it be for school work, teaching or enjoyment.

Vice President of Novelist, Duncan Smith, says that the partnership between NoveList and COMPanion joins NoveList with a leader in the library automation industry. “NoveList recognizes Alexandria as a premier Library Automation Program for schools around the country, and partnering with COMPanion will help to enhance student learning and to provide easy access to books for students, whether for assigned reading or for pleasure.”

COMPanion’s Vice President of Sales, Darren Dibb, shares Smith’s optimism about the agreement. “This partnership just makes sense. COMPanion's Alexandria Library Automation Program has been providing easy access to the holdings of thousands of libraries for over 25 years. NoveList provides libraries with unique, enhanced, critical information about titles. Now patrons can access holdings and view this wonderful information through one interface.”

In addition to book recommendations, NoveList will provide rich information about the book entered in the search, such as reviews, information on other books in the series (if applicable), book discussions, tone, writing style, book discussions and more via the NoveList Select service.

Smith also says school media specialists and teachers will have access to the rich, curriculum-oriented material that can be found directly in NoveList Select to aid in reading, writing and comprehension skills, thereby benefiting a student’s entire educational experience. “Reading is the cornerstone of any education, and now NoveList and Alexandria will provide students with targeted access to more books and related activities than ever.”

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost®, the world’s premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and eBooks. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

About COMPanion
COMPanion Corporation, headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, is the developer of Alexandria—best known for its power and ease of use. Alexandria offers the best cross platform library automation solution for Windows and Macintosh. Alexandria provides software solutions to the K-12 education market, public and special/corporate libraries. For over 20 years, COMPanion has established itself as a leader in the K-12 education market.

Call for more information at 800-347-6439 or visit www.goalexandria.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
EBSCO Publishing
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

COMPanion Corporation
1.800.347.6439
info@goalexandria.com

NoveList® and COMPanion® Partner to Improve Access
~ NoveList Select® Can Now Be Integrated Into The Alexandria Library System~

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 27, 2011 — NoveList®, a division of EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO), and COMPanion® have announced a partnership that will enrich K-12 reading curriculum by providing book recommendations to students and offering curriculum-based activities to teachers and school librarians.

NoveList®Select, can now be seamlessly integrated into COMPanion’s Alexandria Library Automation Program. With NoveList Select in Alexandria, when a student searches for a book via the Alexandria portal, NoveList Select will return reading recommendations based on that book—and based on titles that the library owns.

The agreement between these two organizations brings decades of experience in school libraries directly into classrooms, and could potentially benefit students and teachers in thousands of schools. The relationship between NoveList and COMPanion allows reading recommendations to be displayed directly into the catalogs of the more than 10,000 schools that use the Alexandria catalog. The joint services they provide help stimulate reading and library use by helping patrons find resources that interest them whether it be for school work, teaching or enjoyment.

Vice President of Novelist, Duncan Smith, says that the partnership between NoveList and COMPanion joins NoveList with a leader in the library automation industry. “NoveList recognizes Alexandria as a premier Library Automation Program for schools around the country, and partnering with COMPanion will help to enhance student learning and to provide easy access to books for students, whether for assigned reading or for pleasure.”

COMPanion’s Vice President of Sales, Darren Dibb, shares Smith’s optimism about the agreement. “This partnership just makes sense. COMPanion's Alexandria Library Automation Program has been providing easy access to the holdings of thousands of libraries for over 25 years. NoveList provides libraries with unique, enhanced, critical information about titles. Now patrons can access holdings and view this wonderful information through one interface.”

In addition to book recommendations, NoveList will provide rich information about the book entered in the search, such as reviews, information on other books in the series (if applicable), book discussions, tone, writing style, book discussions and more via the NoveList Select service.

Smith also says school media specialists and teachers will have access to the rich, curriculum-oriented material that can be found directly in NoveList Select to aid in reading, writing and comprehension skills, thereby benefiting a student’s entire educational experience. “Reading is the cornerstone of any education, and now NoveList and Alexandria will provide students with targeted access to more books and related activities than ever.”

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is the producer of EBSCOhost®, the world’s premier for-fee online research service, including full-text databases, subject indexes, point-of-care medical reference, historical digital archives, and eBooks. The company provides more than 350 databases and nearly 300,000 eBooks. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals and magazines from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). EBSCO is also the provider of EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), which provides each institution with a fast, single search box for its entire collection, offering deeper indexing and more full-text searching of journals and magazines than any other discovery service (www.ebscohost.com/discovery). For more information, visit the EBSCO Publishing Web site at: www.ebscohost.com, or contact: information@ebscohost.com. EBSCO Publishing is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in the United States.

About COMPanion
COMPanion Corporation, headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, is the developer of Alexandria—best known for its power and ease of use. Alexandria offers the best cross platform library automation solution for Windows and Macintosh. Alexandria provides software solutions to the K-12 education market, public and special/corporate libraries. For over 20 years, COMPanion has established itself as a leader in the K-12 education market.

Call for more information at 800-347-6439 or visit www.goalexandria.com.
###
For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Public Relations Director
EBSCO Publishing
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

COMPanion Corporation
1.800.347.6439
info@goalexandria.com

Release date: 31/10/2011
Country of issue: United Kingdom | USA

Cambridge University Press launches University Publishing Online

Cambridge University Press’s new integrated eBook and digital content offering, University Publishing Online, launched today (31 October).

University Publishing Online, at www.universitypublishingonline.org, provides aggregated content from the Mathematical Association of America (based in Washington D.C.), Liverpool University Press, Foundation Books (based in India), and Cambridge University Press. Access to content from Edinburgh University Press and Nottingham University Press will be available from early 2012.

University Publishing Online provides libraries with eBooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide.

Building on the established, highly successful Cambridge Books Online platform, users have immediate access to over 13,000 front and backlist titles, accessible through quick, powerful search and browse functionality. University Publishing Online allows users to search within the available content of all four presses, maximising results and offering access to research materials of the highest standard.

Users are able to search across all University Publishing Online content or limit their search to selected publishers. The search facility also encompasses Cambridge Journals Online (Cambridge’s extensive journals platform), providing users with access to hundreds of the latest academic, research-rich publications. Institutions are able to make collection or title-by-title purchases from a single publisher or mix-and-match across all of the publishers on the platform.

UPO contains comprehensive library support tools, and it is compliant with all major industry standards and initiatives. Functionality on the site includes hyperlinked references and personalisation features, as well as enhanced discoverability tools. Two functionality upgrades will take place every year, ensuring the site is consistently developing according to its users’ needs.

Two purchasing plans for University Publishing Online are available, each involving unlimited-user concurrent access and minimal digital rights management (DRM). Customers are able to buy content once and then own continuing access, or subscribe annually with a subscribe-to-buy facility. Annual subscription will be available from January 2012.

Dr Andrew Brown, Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, said: “I believe that the launch of University Publishing Online is great news for our customers, as it will bring even more flexibility of access to quality academic content from a range of different publishers. Our mission at Cambridge University Press has always been to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, and, with the ease of access and the quality of its content, UPO will ensure that this mission continues.”

“We would like to take this opportunity to invite other prestigious publishers to join us, and we look forward to adding even more quality academic content in the future.”

To view UPO, go to www.universitypublishingonline.org

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

Media contacts
For further information, please contact Hannah Gregory on +44(0)1223 325544 or email press@cambridge.org. If you are located in North or South America, please contact Erin Igoe on +1 212-337-5955, or email eigoe@cambridge.org.

About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, its purpose is to further the University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and research.

Its extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprise 36,000 titles covering academic research, professional development, over 280 research journals, school-level education, English language teaching and bible publishing.

Playing a leading role in today’s international market place, Cambridge University Press has 53 offices around the globe, and it distributes its products to nearly every country in the world.

For further information, please go to: www.cambridge.org

About Cambridge Books Online
Cambridge Books Online offers access to thousands of front and backlist PDF titles from Cambridge University Press and other academic publishers in a fully searchable environment. The site includes dynamic content and features, with frequent addition of new titles. It also features comprehensive library support tools, including downloadable machine-readable cataloguing (MARC) records, usage reports plus access and authentication methods.

Functionality on the site includes hyperlinked references and personalisation features, as well as enhanced discoverability tools. Two functionality upgrades take place every year, ensuring the site is consistently developing according to its users’ needs.

Libraries can acquire a wide range of subject-based collections or can choose to make an individually customised selection of titles from the 12,000 currently on offer for a one-off access fee.

Institutions in over 30 countries have purchased eBooks from Cambridge Books Online since its launch in 2010, and new customers are being added each week.

For further information about Cambridge Books Online, please go to http://ebooks.cambridge.org

Release date: 31/10/2011
Country of issue: United Kingdom | USA

Cambridge University Press launches University Publishing Online

Cambridge University Press’s new integrated eBook and digital content offering, University Publishing Online, launched today (31 October).

University Publishing Online, at www.universitypublishingonline.org, provides aggregated content from the Mathematical Association of America (based in Washington D.C.), Liverpool University Press, Foundation Books (based in India), and Cambridge University Press. Access to content from Edinburgh University Press and Nottingham University Press will be available from early 2012.

University Publishing Online provides libraries with eBooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide.

Building on the established, highly successful Cambridge Books Online platform, users have immediate access to over 13,000 front and backlist titles, accessible through quick, powerful search and browse functionality. University Publishing Online allows users to search within the available content of all four presses, maximising results and offering access to research materials of the highest standard.

Users are able to search across all University Publishing Online content or limit their search to selected publishers. The search facility also encompasses Cambridge Journals Online (Cambridge’s extensive journals platform), providing users with access to hundreds of the latest academic, research-rich publications. Institutions are able to make collection or title-by-title purchases from a single publisher or mix-and-match across all of the publishers on the platform.

UPO contains comprehensive library support tools, and it is compliant with all major industry standards and initiatives. Functionality on the site includes hyperlinked references and personalisation features, as well as enhanced discoverability tools. Two functionality upgrades will take place every year, ensuring the site is consistently developing according to its users’ needs.

Two purchasing plans for University Publishing Online are available, each involving unlimited-user concurrent access and minimal digital rights management (DRM). Customers are able to buy content once and then own continuing access, or subscribe annually with a subscribe-to-buy facility. Annual subscription will be available from January 2012.

Dr Andrew Brown, Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, said: “I believe that the launch of University Publishing Online is great news for our customers, as it will bring even more flexibility of access to quality academic content from a range of different publishers. Our mission at Cambridge University Press has always been to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, and, with the ease of access and the quality of its content, UPO will ensure that this mission continues.”

“We would like to take this opportunity to invite other prestigious publishers to join us, and we look forward to adding even more quality academic content in the future.”

To view UPO, go to www.universitypublishingonline.org

ENDS

Notes to Editors:

Media contacts
For further information, please contact Hannah Gregory on +44(0)1223 325544 or email press@cambridge.org. If you are located in North or South America, please contact Erin Igoe on +1 212-337-5955, or email eigoe@cambridge.org.

About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Dedicated to excellence, its purpose is to further the University's objective of advancing knowledge, education, learning, and research.

Its extensive peer-reviewed publishing lists comprise 36,000 titles covering academic research, professional development, over 280 research journals, school-level education, English language teaching and bible publishing.

Playing a leading role in today’s international market place, Cambridge University Press has 53 offices around the globe, and it distributes its products to nearly every country in the world.

For further information, please go to: www.cambridge.org

About Cambridge Books Online
Cambridge Books Online offers access to thousands of front and backlist PDF titles from Cambridge University Press and other academic publishers in a fully searchable environment. The site includes dynamic content and features, with frequent addition of new titles. It also features comprehensive library support tools, including downloadable machine-readable cataloguing (MARC) records, usage reports plus access and authentication methods.

Functionality on the site includes hyperlinked references and personalisation features, as well as enhanced discoverability tools. Two functionality upgrades take place every year, ensuring the site is consistently developing according to its users’ needs.

Libraries can acquire a wide range of subject-based collections or can choose to make an individually customised selection of titles from the 12,000 currently on offer for a one-off access fee.

Institutions in over 30 countries have purchased eBooks from Cambridge Books Online since its launch in 2010, and new customers are being added each week.

For further information about Cambridge Books Online, please go to http://ebooks.cambridge.org