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2007-11-29T05:55:00.000-08:00

OCLC Enhances WorldCat.org

2007-11-28T02:44:00.000-08:00

OCLC announced that the latest enhancement to WorldCat.org is a link to WorldCat Identities (www.worldcat.org/identities), an OCLC research prototype that creates a summary page for some 25 million personal and corporate authors mentioned in WorldCat. In addition, research journal articles discoverable on WorldCat.org now include links to the British Library Direct service, where electronic copies of the articles may be purchased. British Library Direct offers pay-as-you-go access to 20,000 international research journals in many fields.

WorldCat Identities presents an “identity” or profile of a particular person or company based on information and associations stored in the WorldCat bibliographic database. Profiled people can be authors, musicians, actors, directors, and others in key creative roles; profiled companies can be publishers, film studios, and other firms responsible for releasing a work. Links to WorldCat Identities are now available beneath the Details tab of WorldCat.org records in the About the Authors section.

A WorldCat Identities profile includes an interactive publication timeline, audience level bar graph, links to the profiles of related people or companies, and a tag cloud of associated subject headings. An Identities profile takes the holdings and metadata contributed by its cataloging member libraries and uniquely reuses them to create a reference page with broad appeal to Web users.

Source: OCLC

Reprints Desk Selects RapidRights™ from Cadmus Communications for Digital Rights Management of Article Reprints

2007-11-19T04:11:00.000-08:00

Richmond, Virginia (March 28, 2006) — Cadmus Communications Corporation (NASDAQ/NM: CDMS) announced today that Reprints Desk will use RapidRights from Cadmus ArticleWorks™ to deliver protected PDF files to customers who purchase electronic reprints of journal articles for electronic distribution to their sales professionals, customers, or prospects. RapidRights is a digital rights management (DRM) system designed specifically for publishers as a user-friendly solution for securing PDF files.

“The ArticleWorks platform and the RapidRights DRM system gives Reprints Desk a user-friendly method for online delivery of high-value copyrighted content,” said Peter Derycz, founder of Reprints Desk. “We’re delighted to partner with Cadmus. Working with the industry leader fits our strategy of offering cutting edge solutions for healthcare marketing. RapidRights offers a DRM system that is clearly the best for print content. Our team has delivered millions of articles, and we know first hand that the wrong DRM solution can ruin customer satisfaction. Cadmus has got it right with RapidRights, and we’re confident that our customers will be satisfied.”

“We’re excited that Reprints Desk has selected RapidRights from Cadmus. The Reprints Desk team has a lot of experience in the marketing of healthcare content and they know what works,” commented Mark Anderson, Vice President of Marketing at Cadmus. “Since we launched our ArticleWorks content delivery system, we have been focused on making our DRM application as unobtrusive and easy for the user as it can be.”

ArticleWorks is a comprehensive content delivery and digital rights management (DRM) system with complete ecommerce functionality that enables publishers and content providers to deliver content on demand in either printed or secure electronic formats. The DRM protection offered through ArticleWorks works with the freely available Adobe Reader and does not require any other downloads or plug-in applications. Other publishers and content providers currently using ArticleWorks include SAGE Publications, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Simba Information, Infotrieve, and Elsevier.

To learn more about ArticleWorks, please direct your inquires to Robert McKinney at mckinneyr@cadmus.com.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk is an innovative new Reprints company formed by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, permissions, and related article delivery solutions. Reprints Desk is pioneering new, user friendly online interfaces at www.reprintsdesk.com to help customers manage all aspects of the content re-purposing process.

About Cadmus
Cadmus Communications Corporation provides end-to-end, integrated graphic communications services to professional publishers, not-for-profit societies and corporations. Cadmus is the world’s largest provider of content management and production services to scientific, technical and medical journal publishers, the fifth largest publications printer in North America, and a leading national provider of specialty packaging products and services. For more information about the innovative technologies and products developed for publishers by Cadmus, visit www.cadmus.com.

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CONTACT:

Mark Anderson
Vice President, Marketing
(804) 287-3664

Reprints Desk and the American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians Announce Agreement to Provide Streamlined Reprint and ePrint Services

2007-11-19T04:09:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles, California (September 27, 2006) -- Reprints Desk announced today that it has reached an agreement with the American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), the publishers of Pain Physician, to offer streamlined, customer-focused Reprint and ePrint services.

"Reprints and ePrints are important methods of scholarly communication and information dissemination and we are pleased to provide a full service web-based reprint service bureau to an organization of the stature and value of ASIPP" said Jan Peterson, Head of Publisher Relations at Reprints Desk. "ASIPP can concentrate on editorial and content matters while Reprints Desk focuses on servicing their readers' reprint needs.

Reprints Desk will offer paper reproduction services of ASIPP's Open Access peer-reviewed journal Pain Physician, as well as PDF distribution options for customized ePrints, protected by DRM (digital rights management). In addition Reprints Desk will provide ASIPP with a co-branded website for placing orders, requesting quotes and tracking orders, as well as an outsourced phone, email, and web-based customer service functions.

"It's a synergistic relationship that allows us to maximize our communication opportunites and minimize administrative duties. We're excellent at meeting the challenges of peer demands, information accessibility, and initial content distribution" said ASIPP CEO Laxmaiah Manchikanti, M.D. "but there is demand for on-going use of valuable content, whether by the healthcare community that needs to get the word out about clinical trial results, or authors who want to promote and share their work with colleagues. Reprints Desk understands content re-purposing, from a practical perspective, as well as the needs and interests of the consumer."

"Copyright compliance and ease of use are the drivers behind this partnership. While Open Access publications desire to make their material broadly available, there are challenges in protecting and honoring the value of the content when third parties have a keen interest in distributing in a manner of their choice. That's where Reprints Desk steps in. We offer options for reproduction and copyright compliance in ways that meets the needs of all parties," said Peter Derycz, President of Reprints Desk.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk is an innovative new Reprints company formed by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, permissions, and related article delivery solutions. Reprints Desk is pioneering new, user friendly online interfaces at www.reprintsdesk.com to help customers manage all aspects of the content re-purposing process. To learn more about Reprints Desk's Publisher Service Bureau, please direct your inquiries to Jan Peterson.

About The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP)
The American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians is a not-for-profit organization representing approximately 4,000 interventional pain physicians across the United States. The organization has been growing rapidly since 1998 and has had a substantial impact on the practice of interventional pain management. ASIPP was started in November 1998 as the Association of Pain Management Anesthesiologists (AOPMA) to represent interventional pain physicians dedicated to improving the delivery of interventional pain management services to patients across the country in the various settings of ambulatory surgical centers, offices, and hospital outpatient departments. In addition, ASIPP also started the Interventional Pain Physician-PAC of AOPMA in December 1999 to represent the political interests of interventional pain physicians. Its name has been changed to American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians-PAC. ASIPP publishes Pain Physician, a peer-reviewed journal that addresses the science and practice of interventional pain management. As the official publication of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, Pain Physician outlines the latest studies, research and information vital to those in the growing specialty of interventional pain management. Pain Physician Journal was recently evaluated by the National Library of Medicine's Literature Selection Technical Review Committee and based upon that review, was selected for indexing and inclusion in MEDLINE.

Contact:
Jan Peterson, Publisher Relations
Reprints Desk
+ (619) 564.4124
http://www.reprintsdesk.com

REPRINTS DESK AND POOLS PRESS NOW AFFILIATED: WILL OFFER INNOVATIVE REPRINT AND PRINTING SOLUTIONS

2007-11-19T04:07:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles, California (March 5, 2007) -- Derycz Scientific, Inc. announced today that it has acquired a majority interest in Pools Press, Inc. and will integrate the print house with Reprints Desk, the reprint service also under the Derycz Scientific umbrella. With the acquisition of Pools Press, Reprints Desk will be able to produce high-quality commercial reprints within a short time period and without minimum quantity requirements.

Pools Press specializes in reprints from medical and technical journals, as well as commercial printing including newsletters, catalogs and booklets with a worldwide distribution network. Northbrook, Illinois-based Pools Press has been in the printing business for over 50 years. Matthew Sampson, whose family has run Pools for three generations, will continue to manage the business while working closely with the Reprints Desk staff to expand the reprints business. With the integration of Reprints Desk and Pools, the turn-around on professional reprints will be measured in days instead of weeks while maintaining the quality of commercial reprints expected by the scientific reprint market. Reprints Desk will also be able to fulfill all reprint orders without any minimum quantity, from one copy to thousands.

Pools Press currently administers the reprint programs for CHEST, the official publication of the American College of Chest Physicians, and provides print services for the University of Chicago Press reprints program. Reprints Desk currently provides reprint service bureaus for the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians and the nursing journals owned and published by Anthony J. Jannetti, Inc., providing an outsourcing solution from quotes to orders to printing and fulfillment. Reprints Desk's corporate customers are leaders in the healthcare industry.

"The integration of the two companies will allow us to expand our reprints business. We want to provide our customers in the healthcare sector with premium quality reprints in a timeframe that is faster than the four to six weeks that is the current industry standard. We also want to expand the reprint services we provide to publishers," said Jan Peterson, Head of Publisher Relations for Reprints Desk, "by offering print services, administrative support and proactive sales efforts."

"Our affiliation with Reprints Desk will allow us to move in innovative new directions," said Matthew Sampson. "We are looking forward to defining the next generation of reprint services."

About Derycz Scientific
The mission of Derycz Scientific is to develop the products, services and systems that facilitate the re-use of published content in a manner that helps organizations achieve their marketing and communication goals effectively and in compliance with copyright law and regulatory rules.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk is an innovative new Reprints company formed by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, permissions, and related article delivery solutions. Reprints Desk is pioneering new, user-friendly online interfaces at www.reprintsdesk.com to help customers manage all aspects of the content re-purposing process.

About Pools Press
Pools Press offers exceptional value to corporations as a total printing solutions provider. Pools Press provides the personal service and run-length flexibility that other printers may have abandoned along the way. Pools' capabilities include 1/color through 4/color printing on a variety of papers, full pre-press solutions, complete bindery services, and expedited worldwide shipping.

For further information contact Scott Ahlberg at Reprints Desk at sahlberg@reprintsdesk.com.

Reprints Desk to Deliver Articles from Springer

2007-11-19T04:05:00.000-08:00

Reprints Desk announced today that it has reached an agreement with Springer to deliver PDFs of individual journal articles from over 1,700 journals published by Springer. Springer is the world's second-largest publisher of journals in the STM sector and the largest publisher of STM books.

(PRWEB) July 19, 2007 -- Reprints Desk (www.reprintsdesk.com) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Springer to deliver PDFs of individual journal articles from over 1,700 journals published by Springer. Springer is the world's second-largest publisher of journals in the STM sector and the largest publisher of STM books.

Kim Zwollo, Global Director, Special Licensing & Rights for Springer, said, "Working with smaller companies such as Reprints Desk helps us reach niche markets that we are not able to serve directly ourselves."

"We are delighted to be working with Springer. Without Springer content we would not be able to support our mission of providing our customers with access to the full breadth of high quality peer-reviewed literature in innovative and copyright-compliant ways," says Jan Peterson, Head of Publisher Relations for Reprints Desk.

Reprints Desk provides full-service article delivery that allows customers to order published articles via the means that works best for them. Reprints Desk's article delivery service is an enterprise alternative to individual credit card purchases of articles, and can be integrated with existing databases and online subscriptions. The Reprints Desk service provides access to both online journals and physical library collections. Articles are delivered in their original format and color, either as a PDF or a professionally printed hardcopy, with no extra charge for color. Reprints Desk provides fast turn-around and integrated data management and reporting capabilities.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk is an innovative new content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing. The company was formed in 2006 by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, single article delivery, and related data management solutions. For more information about Reprints Desk contact Scott Ahlberg, Reprints Desk 310-477-0395.

About Springer
Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of scientific and specialist literature. It is the second-largest publisher of journals in the science, technology, and medicine (STM) sector, the largest publisher of STM books and the largest business-to-business publisher in the German-language area. The group publishes over 1,700 journals and more than 5,500 new books a year, as well as the largest STM eBook Collection worldwide. Springer has operations in about 20 countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia, and some 5,000 employees. In 2006, it generated annual sales of around EUR 924 million.

Reprints Desk to Deliver Articles from Oxford Journals

2007-11-19T04:04:00.001-08:00

(Los Angeles, August 1, 2007) Reprints Desk announced today that Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, has signed an agreement that enables Reprints Desk to deliver PDFs of individual journal articles from the list of approximately 200 journal titles published by Oxford University Press.

"We are happy to extend rights to Reprints Desk because we can reach into pockets of the biopharmaceutical market that we may not be able to penetrate ourselves," said Fiona Bennett, Head of Library Sales and Business Development for Oxford Journals. .

"We are very pleased to be working with Oxford University Press," said Jan Peterson, Head of Publisher Relations for Reprints Desk. " OUP is one of the most prestigious scientific publishers in the world, and our agreement with them helps us reach our goal of helping our customers access content in a workflow-friendly and copyright compliant manner."

Reprints Desk provides full-service article delivery that allows customers to order published articles via the means that works best for them. Reprints Desk's article delivery service is an enterprise alternative to individual credit card purchases of articles, and can be integrated with existing databases and online subscriptions. The Reprints Desk service provides access to both online journals and physical library collections. Articles are delivered in their original format and color, either as a PDF or a professionally printed hardcopy, with no extra charge for color. Reprints Desk provides fast turn-around and integrated data management and reporting capabilities.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk is an innovative new content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing. The company was formed in 2006 by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, single article delivery, and related data management solutions. For more information about Reprints Desk contact Scott Ahlberg, Reprints Desk 310-477-0395.

About Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP), a department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. Read more about OUP at http://www.oup.com

Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes nearly 200 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about Oxford Journals at http://www.oxfordjournals.org

Reprints Desk Will Deliver Single Articles from Karger

2007-11-19T03:56:00.000-08:00

(Los Angeles, August 22, 2007) Reprints Desk announced today that medical and scientific publisher Karger has signed an agreement that enables Reprints Desk to deliver PDFs of individual journal articles from the over 70 titles published by the Swiss publisher.

“At Karger, we appreciate the fact that Reprints Desk effectively implements a clearly defined corporate strategy of providing customers with information efficiently and affordably. We think our clients value this competent method of document retrieval as well.” Steven Karger, CEO, Karger Publishers

“We are very pleased to include Karger in our list of publisher sources,” said Jan Peterson, Head of Publisher Relations for Reprints Desk. “Karger publishes some significant titles that are important to our biopharmaceutical customer base, and we enjoy a productive relationship with the Karger staff.”

Reprints Desk provides full-service article delivery that allows customers to order published articles via the means that works best for them. Reprints Desk’s article delivery service is an enterprise alternative to individual credit card purchases of articles, and can be integrated with existing databases and online subscriptions. The Reprints Desk service provides access to both online journals and physical library collections. Articles are delivered in their original format and color, either as a PDF or a professionally printed hardcopy, with no extra charge for color. Reprints Desk provides fast turn-around and integrated data management and reporting capabilities.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk http://www.reprintsdesk.com is an innovative new content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing. The company was formed in 2006 by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, single article delivery, and related data management solutions. For more information about Reprints Desk contact Scott Ahlberg, Reprints Desk 310-477-0395.

About Karger
Karger Publishers, founded in 1890, is a leading international biomedical publisher. Currently, production comprises 73 journals and approx. 150 book titles per year in print and online, both research and clinical, the majority of which are in English. Karger publications are indexed in all important bibliographical services, such as PubMed. Completely independent, the company is currently led by the fourth generation of the Karger family. For more information about Karger contact Carla Holmes, S. Karger AG +41 61 306 1111.

S. Karger AG
Allschwilerstrasse 10
CH-4009 Basel
Switzerland

Website: http://www.karger.com
Telephone: +41-61-306-1111
Fax: +41-61-306-1234

Nature Articles Now Available From Reprints Desk

2007-11-19T02:58:00.000-08:00

(Los Angeles, September 20, 2007) Reprints Desk announced today that it has reached an agreement with Nature Publishing Group to deliver PDFs of individual journal articles from the nearly 70 prestigious print and online journals published by NPG including Nature, the world's foremost weekly scientific journal.

David Hoole, Head of Brand Marketing and Content Licensing at Nature Publishing Group said, “We support innovative ways of providing content to individual researchers, and Reprints Desk is very careful about attending to copyright compliance.”

“We are very pleased to be working with Nature Publishing Group, one of the preeminent STM publishers in the world. Our NPG agreement supports Reprints Desk’s goal of working with corporate customers to access individual articles in innovative ways,” says Jan Peterson, Head of Publisher Relations for Reprints Desk.

Reprints Desk provides full-service article delivery that allows customers to order published articles, whether paper or electronic, via the means that works best for them. Reprints Desk supports order placement via email, link resolvers, a web-based order form, or fax. The Reprints Desk service provides access to both online journals and physical library collections. Articles are delivered in their original format and color, either as a PDF or a professionally printed hardcopy, with no extra charge for color. Reprints Desk provides fast turn-around and integrated data management and reporting capabilities.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk http://www.reprintsdesk.com is an innovative new content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing. The company was formed in 2006 by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, single article delivery, and related data management solutions. For more information about Reprints Desk contact Scott Ahlberg, Reprints Desk 310-477-0395.

About Nature Publishing Group
NPG publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies. NPG has an enviable reputation for innovation, developing timely and award-winning solutions to scientists' information needs. For more information visit http://www.nature.com.

Reprints Desk Partners with Elsevier to Deliver Articles

2007-11-19T02:34:00.000-08:00

(Los Angeles, November 14, 2007) Reprints Desk announced today that it has reached an agreement with Elsevier to deliver PDFs of individual journal articles from over 2,000 scientific journals published by Elsevier for its customers in the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries, and other corporate accounts.

“Reprints Desk is extremely pleased to partner with Elsevier and we take a groundbreaking step forward in the copyright-compliant delivery of articles in PDF format.” said Peter Derycz, President and Founder of Reprints Desk. “Our customers have increasingly sophisticated needs for content re-purposing and they want the ability to incorporate solid, vetted scientific information in a useable electronic format into their daily workflow. We view our relationship with Elsevier as one that will enable both parties to learn more and develop tools and services to meet this demand.”

Reprints Desk provides full-service article delivery that allows customers to order published articles, whether paper or electronic, via the means that works best for them. Reprints Desk supports order placement via email, link resolvers, a web-based order form, or fax. The Reprints Desk service provides access to both online journals and physical library collections. Articles are delivered in their original format and color, either as a PDF or a professionally printed hardcopy, with no extra charge for color. Reprints Desk provides fast turn-around and integrated data management and reporting capabilities.

About Reprints Desk
Reprints Desk is an innovative new content re-purposing company focused on medical and scientific publishing. The company was formed in 2006 by content professionals with over 50 years of experience serving customers and publishers in healthcare. Reprints Desk offers reprints, ePrints, single article delivery, and related data management solutions. For more information contact Scott Ahlberg, Reprints Desk 310-477-0395.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

Critical Thinking Guides Now in Points of View Reference Center™

2007-11-08T05:30:00.000-08:00

~Students Now Have Access to Information Designed to Help Them Think Critically ~

IPSWICH, Mass. — October 25, 2007 — Points of View Reference Center^™(POVRC), a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue, now includes Critical Thinking Guides. The guides are designed to help students separate fact from opinion and enhance their ability to read and think critically.

Points of View Reference Center provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument) and counterpoint (opposing argument). Critical Thinking Guides have been added for each of the topics, which means that POVRC includes a total of 800 main essays. The database contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including the main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books.

Points of View Reference Center provides the basis from which students can develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues and develop analytical thinking skills. The database also offers guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers.

For more information go to www.ebscohost.com/Points_of_View_Reference_Center.

About EBSCO

EBSCO Publishing is the world’s premier database aggregator, offering a suite of more than 200 full-text and secondary research databases. Through a library of tens of thousands of full-text journals, magazines, books, monographs, reports and various other publication types from renowned publishers, EBSCO serves the content needs of all researchers (Academic, Medical, K-12, Public Library, Corporate, Government, etc.). The company’s product lines include proprietary databases such as Academic Search^™, Business Source^®, CINAHL^®, DynaMed^™, Literary Reference Center^™, MasterFILE^™, NoveList^®, SocINDEX^™ and SPORTDiscus^™ as well as dozens of leading licensed databases such as ATLA Religion Database^™, EconLit, MEDLINE^®, MLA International Bibliography, PsycARTICLES^® and PsycINFO^®. Databases are powered by EBSCOhost^®, the most-used for-fee electronic resource in libraries around the world. 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.

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For more information, please contact:
Kathleen McEvoy
Media Relations Manager
(800) 653-2726 ext. 2594
kmcevoy@ebscohost.com

Access Innovations Data Harmony Releases Automatic Email Routing and Categorization Program

2007-11-08T05:17:00.000-08:00

Albuquerque, New Mexico (March 22, 2007) - Access Innovations, Inc. (Access), a leader in the data management industry, has announced the release of MAImail, an automatic email routing and categorization program.

Built on top of Access’s popular Data Harmony M.A.I., this innovative system is rules-based. Using any outline of knowledge, the data can be situated in the location where it is easiest to find and review. MAImail is consistent in the placement of the same data. When allocation in another spot is preferred the rule is easily altered to put the information into the correct location. MAImail also can be used in conjunction with the thesaurus editor, Thesaurus Master, to maintain the terms, and M.A.I. to augment the terms. The rules and terms can be combined in a single interface: MAIstro.

Marjorie Hlava, Access President and Chairman, discussed the genesis of this advanced program: "Have you ever come back from a trip and been faced with 1,000 emails? Some are SPAM, some are listserv updates, some are invitations, some are project related – but the number is staggering! Faced with this dilemma ourselves, and having the tools at hand to resolve it, we created a program to sort or categorize email based on mailbox structure, keywords or a taxonomy. MAImail allows data to be sorted into the proper places while we are out, or throughout the day. We then can look at groups of email by file and catch up on the whole story at once, instead of mentally jumping from thought to thought as we work our way through the inbox. It’s a huge time and energy saver."

Jay Ven Eman, Access Chief Executive Officer, added, "Other clients use MAImail to sort the general delivery boxes like ‘marketing’ or ‘info’ to the proper person based on profiles. Publishers use it to sort incoming data feeds to the proper editors for review. MAImail eliminates the need for someone to constantly go through and monitor the incoming mail. It also can filter items directly to the trash file."

About Access Innovations

Access has supported document management and database construction in Information Management for 29 years. Our proprietary Data Harmony software suite provides unparalleled support for the implementation and accuracy of search engines. Employing a wide range of software tools, Access offers database solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of the private and government sectors. Independently owned, Access constantly strives for perfection and increased accuracy in a world of information disseminated across multiple media. Cognizant of the time constraints faced by searchers of this evolving information influx, Data Harmony’s software suite filters out the noise of unwanted search engine selections.

Access Sciences Corporation Names Hilford to Principal Consultant Position

2007-11-08T05:01:00.000-08:00

Houston, TX, July 10, 2007—Access Sciences Corporation is pleased to announce the addition of Glen Hilford as Director, Enterprise Architecture Service and Principal Consultant. Hilford brings 20 years of experience in technology, and 12 years in account management, project management, business development and technical consulting.

In Hilford’s career, he has successfully architected and led numerous multi-million dollar technological ventures. Some of these include the implementation of a hybrid B2B / B2C e-commerce site, the development of a rule-based system for power traders that distributes power generation and derived economic data in near real-time, the integration of an oil and gas production field automation project for a major global oil and gas corporation, and the specification of an energy optimization system for a regional water utility. Hilford consistently delivers projects on schedule and within budget.

“Glen is an established leader in this industry, and we are proud to have him join the Access team. His extensive experience will prove invaluable not only to our clients, but to other consultants as well,” says Janice C. Anderson, President and CEO of Access Sciences Corporation.

“I am delighted that my career has taken me to Access Sciences. I believe that my varied experience, particularly that which deals with optimizing the use and management of information, is directly in line with the focus of ASC,” notes Hilford. “I look forward to a promising future here.”

Hilford graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. He is a native of Houston and enjoys being involved in missions work with his church, his children’s activities and his retired greyhound Cody.

In the fields of Information and Records Management, Enterprise Content Management, and Regulatory Compliance, Access Sciences Corporation is at the forefront, helping clients strategically manage their enterprise-wide information, systems, procedures, and documentation. Access Sciences Corporation’s core business is enterprise content and records management consulting, and outsourcing. Access Sciences consultants are subject-matter experts with hundreds of combined years of content and records management experience. Access Sciences Corporation has one of the largest and most deeply skilled information management consulting practices in industry today.

Professional Engineering Publishing Signs Exclusive Agreement with EMpact to Promote Journals to Eastern Europe and Latin America

2007-11-08T04:13:00.000-08:00

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A. – October 29, 2007 – Professional Engineering Publishing (PE Publishing) recently signed a two-year exclusive agreement with EMpact, the publisher representation group within the EBSCO Information Services division, to promote its journals in parts of Eastern Europe and Latin America.

A subsidiary of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, PE Publishing publishes 18 journals across a variety of subjects of interest to international engineering community. Sixteen journals are grouped within the Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, each with its own identity and international editorial board. Professional Engineering (PE) is the flagship magazine for engineers, while Automotive Engineer is also a key journal circulated within the U.K. and continental Europe.

“In today’s changing world, we want to ensure that our publications are available to as wide an audience as possible,” said Peter Williams, academic director of PE Publishing. “EMpact has impressed us with their ability to reach developing markets.”

“PE Publishing’s customers cover a wide range of industry sectors, from academia to the corporate market,” said Sid McNeal Jr., vice president and general manager, EMpact. “We are looking forward to exclusively representing their journal content in parts of Eastern Europe, Mexico, Central America, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela and the Caribbean.”

About PE Publishing

Professional Engineering Publishing Ltd. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. It publishes a range of scholarly journals, magazines and other products. Most journals have been available online since 1997, and a digital archive of the IMechE Proceedings 1847-1996 was launched in 2006. Several other magazines, supplements and Web products are produced, not only in association with IMechE, but also for a variety of other organizations.

PE Publishing has 45 staff members based at Birdcage Walk, London. The company has its own Board of Directors, and operates as a trading company. It transfers profit to the IMechE to assist in its support and promotion of mechanical engineering.

About EMpact

EMpact Sales™ (EMpact) is part of the EBSCO group. Through its affiliation with EBSCO Information Services, EMpact is the ideal partner to expand your sales efforts and promote your products worldwide. The EMpact team can develop an exclusive and strategic plan for you to dramatically broaden exposure for your electronic products and content.

As part of the EBSCO group, EMpact brings to your sales process an expanded team of newly established EMpact sales and marketing personnel working beside experienced EBSCO sales representatives who have been working with publishers and libraries for many years. With the support of 32 fully staffed offices in 22 countries worldwide, EMpact’s global reach makes it possible for content providers to take advantage of opportunities they might otherwise miss.

Our representatives have produced successful sales results for publishers in: France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain, Germany and other areas of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, Korea, China, Taiwan and other Asian countries, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and other parts of Latin America.

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EBSCO Contact:
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Corporate Communications
+1 205 980-6794
rwalden@ebsco.com

PE Publishing Contact:
Mark Lord
Marketing and Development Manager
+44 207 304 6903
markl@pepublishing.com

Access Sciences Named to the Top 50 Fastest-Growing Woman-Owned Businesses

2007-11-08T04:08:00.000-08:00

August 24, 2007--Access Sciences Corporation has been named to the list of the 50 Fastest Growing Woman-Owned Businesses by the Houston Business Journal. Access Sciences ranked #7 on the list of 50, registering a 79.9% growth over the previous year.
Several representatives from Access Sciences attended the sold-out luncheon at the Westin Galleria. Terry Mergele, long-time employee of Access Sciences accepted the award on behalf of President and CEO Janice C. Anderson. Anderson was out of state on busines but was elated with the honor. Says Anderson, "It is a true honor to receive this outstanding recognition in our community. It is a testament to my team and our collective efforts that we have grown so dramatically, both in numbers and in achievements."

In 1985, Janice C. Anderson formed Access Information Associates. Twenty-two years later, the company has changed names, but Access Sciences Corporation exists for the same purpose: to offer advanced consulting services, information management technologies and deployment methods for capturing and managing information assets. The collaborative methods employed by Access Sciences help their clients achieve success early, and build a solution that holds value over the long term.

Terry Mergele accepts the award.

ACCESS INNOVATIONS, INC. SOFTWARE PLAYS KEY ROLE IN AMERICAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION WEBSITE UPGRADE

2007-11-08T03:43:00.000-08:00

Albuquerque, New Mexico (October 18 , 2007) – Access Innovations, Inc. (Access), a leader in the data management industry, has furnished its Data Harmony MAIstro software package in aid of the American Economic Association’s (AEA) upgrade of their EconLit website.

AEA’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes over thirty years of worldwide economics literature. Compiled and abstracted in searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers and dissertations. Documents are classified using a hierarchical, alphanumeric classification system, JEL Codes.

MAIstro software combines the functionality of M.A.I.™ (Machine Aided Indexer) and Thesaurus Master(TM)™ to simplify the creation and management of controlled vocabularies and their use for categorization. M.A.I. is a natural language processing tool using a rule-based expert system for interactive assignment of indexing terms to individual documents. For indexing requiring 100% accuracy editors are assisted in selecting indexing terms, but retain control of the final selections. For large volumes of data, M.A.I. also can be used for auto-categorization. Thesaurus Master is used for the creation and maintenance of a taxonomy or development of a full standards-compliant thesaurus.

AEA evaluated both statistics-based systems and the Data Harmony rule-based system, and selected MAIstro as more appropriate for EconLit indexing. Access provided training, at the conclusion of which AEA built its own rulebase. The system will improve consistency, help train Ph.D. students currently used as classifiers and speed up production. Currently, AEA is evaluating the web version of MAIstro for economists to use in selecting classifications for their own articles before submitting them to journals and conferences.

Drucilla Ekwurzel, AEA Director of Publication Services, described the software selection process: “We chose to test Access Innovations' DataHarmony software for machine-aided indexing of journal articles and books after seeing demonstrations at NFAIS and ASIDIC meetings on search engines. We already were familiar with Access Innovations’ excellent reputation for thesaurus building and data conversion.”

Margie Hlava, Access president, responded, “It is a joy to work with the EconLit folks. They quickly grasped how the rule bases and thesaurus can work with their code system and created a notation module for EconLit. It is an exciting and productive application which allows more flexibility in their production process.”

About Access Innovations

Access has supported document management and database construction in Information Management for 29 years. Our proprietary Data Harmony software suite provides unparalleled support for the implementation and accuracy of search engines. Employing a wide range of software tools, Access offers database solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of the private and government sectors. Independently owned, Access constantly strives for perfection and increased accuracy in a world of information disseminated across multiple media. Cognizant of the time constraints faced by searchers of this evolving information influx, Data Harmony’s software suite filters out the noise of unwanted search engine selections.

Media:

Mary Garcia
Access Innovations, Inc.
505-998-0800 or 800-926-8268
garcia@accessinn.com
www.accessinn.com

Social Stress + Darkness = Increased Anxiety

2007-10-23T04:18:00.000-07:00

Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2007 – Just in time for Halloween, researchers are releasing new data that show darkness increases the impact of social stress, in an article scheduled for publication in the November 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry. As children and adults alike gear up for the anticipation and excitement of this "spooky" holiday, this study lends a further understanding to our inherent fear of the dark.

Grillon and colleagues at the National Institute of Mental Health sought to examine whether stress increases unconditioned fear in humans. To do this, they measured the startle reflex of healthy volunteers in either light or dark conditions, and after either a socially stressful situation of public speaking, or after a period of relaxation. The startle response is a sensitive tool for measuring anxiety levels, and in this study, was measured when volunteers were presented with white noise stimuli via headphones. The authors found that the startle response was boosted when the volunteers were in complete darkness, and this effect was more pronounced after the stressor.

Dr. Christian Grillon, lead author on the project, explains, "Because stress has been linked to the precipitation of emotional disturbances, sometimes to a pathological level, it is important to understand how stress affects our brain and behavior." He adds, "We report that a mild acute stressor increases subsequent experimental anxiety in healthy subjects. The demonstration of stress-induced anxiety in the laboratory is important because it provides how stress alters nervous system function."

John H. Krystal, M.D., Editor of Biological Psychiatry and affiliated with both Yale University School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Healthcare System, comments, "The authors show that social stress and darkness interact to increase the startle response. The refinement of this research method may help us to understand how threatening contexts and stressful social interactions interact at a mechanistic level to contribute to anxiety disorders." Although this work is performed to further the scientific community’s understanding of anxiety disorders, nearly all of us have felt scared or anxious in the dark at one time or another. So, the next time you check for monsters in the closet before climbing into bed, or when you peer into the dark bushes before your next "trick-or-treat," just remember that it's normal to jump when someone shouts "Boo!"

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Notes to Editors:
The article is "Acute Stress Potentiates Anxiety in Humans" by Christian Grillon, Roman Duncko, Matthew F. Covington, Lori Kopperman and Mitchel A. Kling. Drs. Grillon, Covington, and Kopperman are affiliated with the Unit of Affective Psychophysiology, Intramural Research Program, while Dr. Duncko is with the Section on Developmental Genetic Epidemiology, Intramural Research Program, and Dr. Kling is with the Mood and Anxiety Disorder Program, all at the National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institute of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, in Bethesda, MD. The article appears in Biological Psychiatry, Volume 62, Issue 10 (November 15, 2007), published by Elsevier.

Full text of the article mentioned above is available upon request. Contact Jayne M. Dawkins at (215) 239-3674 or ja.dawkins@elsevier.com to obtain a copy or to schedule an interview.

About Biological Psychiatry
This international rapid-publication journal is the official journal of the Society of Biological Psychiatry. It covers a broad range of topics in psychiatric neuroscience and therapeutics. Both basic and clinical contributions are encouraged from all disciplines and research areas relevant to the pathophysiology and treatment of major neuropsychiatric disorders. Full-length and Brief Reports of novel results, Commentaries, Case Studies of unusual significance, and Correspondence and Comments judged to be of high impact to the field are published, particularly those addressing genetic and environmental risk factors, neural circuitry and neurochemistry, and important new therapeutic approaches. Concise Reviews and Editorials that focus on topics of current research and interest are also published rapidly.

Biological Psychiatry is ranked 4th out of the 95 Psychiatry titles and 16th out of 199 Neurosciences titles on the 2006 ISI Journal Citations Reports® published by Thomson Scientific.

About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as ScienceDirect, MD Consult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

Media Contact:
Jayne Dawkins
Elsevier
+1 215 239 3674
ja.dawkins@elsevier.com

Information risk management

2007-10-23T04:09:00.000-07:00

Autonomy Zantaz has developed a complete information risk management (IRM) offering it claims is designed to dynamically and automatically mitigate the risks endemic to the everyday production of excess amounts of data using intelligent archiving, automated policy management and advanced e-discovery techniques.

Capabilities include: media restoration, consolidated archiving, advanced electronic data discovery, review, production, real-time policy management and analytics. The solution is based on Autonomy’s Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), which automates the understanding and processing of all sources of operational information including e-mail, instant messages, files, applications, voice and video. The combination of the Zantaz solutions and IDOL allows enterprise data to be simultaneously available across both operational systems and consolidated archives, eliminating the need to deploy and maintain two separate IT solutions, the company reports.

Elsevier Announces New Clinical Solutions Group Within The Health Sciences Division

2007-10-23T03:59:00.000-07:00

Philadelphia, October 23, 2007 – Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science and health information, has announced the formation of a new Clinical Solutions group within its Health Sciences division. The new group is structured from the perspective of the clinician-customer and combines the company’s journals, books and clinical decision support tools to address the needs of medical customers, including medical researchers, practitioners, providers and payors.

Studies have shown that it takes as much as 17 years to translate the findings from research studies into practice. By connecting the company’s journal and periodicals content with its electronic tools, Elsevier hopes to increase the pace of physician adoption of research findings and improve outcomes in health.

"Combining our print and electronic divisions, our periodical and book divisions and evidence and experience based content will fuel innovation through improved coordination," said Randy Charles Executive Vice President, Clinical Solutions, and previously global head of marketing for Elsevier Health Sciences. "We're now able to provide enhanced content delivered through improved work flow tools to health care professionals, medical students, residents, clinicians, researchers and authors, in all phases of their careers."

Reporting to Randy are: Russ Thomas, CEO Gold Standard; Linda Belfus, Senior Vice President for U.S. Medicine; Glen Campbell, Senior Vice President, U.S. Health Sciences Journals; Jonathan Teich, Chief Medical Informatics Officer; John Schrefer, Vice President, Continuity (Clinics of North America) and Mike Takats, Vice President MDConsult.

"This new customer-focused structure allows us to better understand the true needs of our customer segments and increase our effectiveness," said Brian Nairn, CEO, Elsevier Health Sciences. "We can now deploy our assets to achieve optimal growth and profitability goal while surpassing the expectations of customers and end users."

Some of the leading brands and products now coordinated within the Clinical Solutions group include:

Clinical Decision and Reference Support Products: MDConsult, FirstConsult, Clinical Pharmacology, EmpoweRx and ProceduresConsult.

Medical Periodicals: 200+ medical journals, including The American Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American College of Cardiology; and The Clinics of North America.

Clinical References and Textbooks: All Mosby and Saunders medical titles, including Braunwald’s Heart Disease, Cecil’s Textbook of Medicine, and Gray’s Anatomy.

The other groups within the Health Sciences Division are Nursing and Health Professions, Pharma Solutions and International.

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About Elsevier
Elsevier is a world-leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. Working in partnership with the global science and health communities, Elsevier’s 7,000 employees in over 70 offices worldwide publish more than 2,000 journals and 1,900 new books per year, in addition to offering a suite of innovative electronic products, such as Science Direct, MDConsult, Scopus, bibliographic databases, and online reference works.

Elsevier is a global business headquartered in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and has offices worldwide. Elsevier is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc, a world-leading publisher and information provider. Operating in the science and medical, legal, education and business-to-business sectors, Reed Elsevier provides high-quality and flexible information solutions to users, with increasing emphasis on the Internet as a means of delivery. Reed Elsevier's ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

Media Contact:
Tom Reller
Elsevier
+1 212 462 1912
t.reller@elsevier.com

West Legalworks™ Podcast Highlights the 23rd Annual M&A Institute

2007-10-15T04:34:00.000-07:00

The rules of the road in the mergers and acquisitions market are changing every day and corporations, private equity groups and hedge funds are reshaping their strategies in light of recent developments, according to a new audio podcast available from West Legalworks™, part of Thomson West, a Thomson business (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

The podcast features James Woolery, corporate partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and Dennis Berman, global deals editor for The Wall Street Journal. Together, they discuss the goals of the upcoming 23rd Annual M&A Institute in New York City, hosted by West Legalworks.

Woolery is chair of the M&A Institute; Berman is the luncheon keynote speaker.

“We are in the process of writing new rules for the next deal period. It’s very much a work in progress,” Woolery notes in the podcast. “What we have done for the conference is gather some folks that really have their finger right on the pulse of the market and are involved in some of the most significant situations people have been reading about.”

Berman said his luncheon roundtable session at the conference will explore the personalities, as well as the strategies, behind deals.

“One thing I really want to explore is the personal dynamics of a given deal,” Berman notes. “I think the focus is going to be on the dealmaker, the personality and how that bears on the overall situation.”

The 23rd Annual M&A Institute will be held Tuesday, Oct. 30, at The Westin New York at Times Square, 270 West 43rd Street. The conference agenda runs from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Conference registration: To register for the 23rd Annual M&A Institute, call (800) 308-1700 or go to www.westlegalworks.com.

Note to editors: The West Legalworks podcast featuring Jim Woolery and Dennis Berman is available on the West Legalworks Web site at http://westlegalworks.com/conferences/podcasts/WLW_MAinstitutePodcast.mp3.

West Legalworks
West Legalworks™, a Thomson West business, develops and executes more than 100 business of law, practice of law and custom professional events annually. Our world class legal content and end-to-end execution capabilities consistently provide the best value and level of service to event attendees, speakers and sponsors. Our capabilities include access to unparalleled relationships with prestigious faculty, speakers and more than 2,000 Thomson West authors, editors and lecturers. West Legalworks also publishes books and newsletters for the industries that we serve. For more information about West Legalworks visit www.westlegalworks.com or call 800-308-1700.

Thomson West
Headquartered in Eagan, Minn., Thomson West is the foremost provider of integrated information solutions to the U.S. legal market. Thomson West is a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and was formed when West Publishing and Thomson Legal Publishing merged in June 1996. For more information, please visit the Thomson West Web site at west.thomson.com.

The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

MEDIA CONTACTS

Yadana Latt

West Legalworks

212-337-8464

yadana.latt@thomson.com

Nine Global Dealers and Thomson Financial Form Premier Electronic Trading Venture Using TradeWeb

2007-10-15T04:29:00.000-07:00

Thomson Financial, an operating unit of The Thomson Corporation (TSX: TOC, NYSE: TOC) and the parent company of TradeWeb, today announced it plans to form a strategic partnership with nine of the world’s leading global dealers to drive the expansion of electronic trading using the TradeWeb platform. TradeWeb is the world’s leading multi-dealer-to-customer marketplace for fixed income and derivatives linking 35 leading dealers, including the nine investors, with over 2,200 buy-side customers.

The partnership will utilize TradeWeb’s established market position to create a global multi-asset class execution venue for clients. Under the terms of the agreement, the dealers will invest approximately $180 million to purchase a minority stake in TradeWeb’s established markets. Separately, Thomson and the dealers will fund additional investment in asset class expansion.

As part of the overall partnership, Thomson Financial will contribute its equity trading-related assets, including AutEx and the Thomson Order Routing network to TradeWeb. AutEx is an industry leader in providing equity indications of interest (“IOIs”). Thomson Order Routing is a leading global FIX network, with more than 6,000 connections to over 700 customers around the world.

The dealers that have agreed to invest in TradeWeb are: Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, The Royal Bank of Scotland, and UBS. All nine firms have committed to participate in TradeWeb’s markets, including interest rate swaps, providing a significant opportunity for institutional investors to benefit from the efficiencies of electronic trading.

This deal is expected to provide a number of advantages to clients, including:

The opportunity to create a unified platform for the trading of fixed income, derivatives and equities markets;
Integrated multi-asset class trade processing;
Access to a deep pool of dealer liquidity for interest rate swaps;
Accurate pricing information off which to drive analytics and modeling;
True multi-asset and cross-asset class trading, enabling clients to execute advanced trading strategies that are now becoming commonplace, especially with hedge funds and other leveraged investors; and
Greater market transparency, increased trading effectiveness and reduced operational complexity for both the buy-side and sell-side.
Under the terms of the agreement, Thomson Financial will become a preferred distributor of TradeWeb’s market data.

“This new venture is a demonstration of Thomson Financial’s commitment to working with its dealers and customers to drive performance,” said Sharon Rowlands, CEO of Thomson Financial. “It will marry TradeWeb’s proven technology and operational skills with the support of a world-class group of dealers to provide global, one-stop trading and straight-through processing for our customers.”

TradeWeb was acquired by Thomson Financial in 2004, a year in which trading volumes totaled $26.2 trillion. Since then trading has continued to increase, with clients executing more than $51.2 trillion in trades in 2006, an increase of 95% over 2004. Trading in the first half of 2007 reached $30.6 trillion, a year-on-year increase of 22%.

“This partnership is a natural step forward in the evolution of the online financial marketplace, taking us closer to the time when almost all trading is electronic,” said Jim Toffey, CEO of Thomson TradeWeb. “TradeWeb is ideally positioned to seize this opportunity, and expand e-trading for our clients on one platform through organic growth and through acquisition. The end-game is to be the leading global network where markets meet.”

“At this stage in the evolution of the electronic markets, especially interest rate swaps, the partnership of leading dealers with TradeWeb’s global distribution and technology, is a powerful combination. New investment by the dealers, and ongoing support from Thomson, position us uniquely to continue to work with the wider buy-side and sell-side community to expand our business,” said Lee Olesky, President of Thomson TradeWeb.

Toffey, Olesky, and Billy Hult, Managing Director and Head of U.S. Markets, will retain the same positions in the new venture.

“The dealers are pleased to partner with TradeWeb to provide our clients with the transparency, price discovery and efficiency of electronic execution,” said Vic Simone, Global Head of Principal Strategic Investments for Goldman Sachs, on behalf of the dealer consortium. “Together, we will provide new solutions that reduce technology complexity, increase settlement accuracy and drive best-execution pricing.”

The transaction is expected to close in the next few months, pending regulatory approval. TradeWeb will maintain its global headquarters in Jersey City, NJ. Average daily trading volume on TradeWeb exceeds $250 billion.

TradeWeb will continue to work closely with Thomson Financial on developing new and innovative solutions for non-traders.

Merrill Lynch acted as financial advisor and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLPacted as legal advisor to Thomson on the transaction. Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP acted as legal advisor to the group of investing dealers.

The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, CT, Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). Thomson Financial, with 2006 revenues of U.S.$2 billion, is a provider of information and technology solutions to the worldwide financial community. Through the widest range of products and services in the industry, Thomson Financial helps clients in more than 70 countries make better decisions, be more productive and achieve superior results.

About Thomson TradeWeb
Thomson TradeWeb is the leading online fixed-income trading network with over 12 million trades executed and total volume surpassing $200 trillion since its inception in 1998. TradeWeb’s multi-dealer auction model links the trading desks of 35 of the world’s leading Fixed-Income dealers with more than 2,200 buy-side institutions in North America, Europe, and Asia. Over $250 billion in trading volume gets executed over TradeWeb each day. The business is also the leading electronic “straight-through processing” network for the fixed-income markets, providing dealers and buy-side institutions with paperless trade allocations and confirmations on its fully-integrated TradeXpressSTP network. The TradeXpressSTP network includes AccountNet, the first derivatives counterparty management tool and the leading data warehouse for standing settlement instructions and OTC derivatives legal documentation. TradeWeb operates within the Thomson Financial group of businesses. TradeWeb LLC is a member of FINRA. TradeWeb Europe Limited is regulated by the U.K. Financial Services Authority.

This news release includes forward-looking statements which are based on certain assumptions and reflect The Thomson Corporation’s current expectations. Forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Corporation’s beliefs that the venture will expand electronic trading on TradeWeb and that it is expected to provide a number of advantages to clients. All forward-looking statements in this news release are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations. Some of the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include the need to obtain regulatory approvals and satisfy conditions to closing, risks related to changes in the general economy and actions of TradeWeb’s competitors. Additional factors are discussed in the Corporation’s materials filed with the securities regulatory authorities in Canada and the United States from time to time, including the Corporation’s latest annual information form, which is contained in its most recently filed annual report on Form 40-F. The Corporation disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.

MEDIA CONTACTS

Simon Hylson-Smith
Thomson TradeWeb
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Cara Kiewel
Thomson TradeWeb
Tel: +44 (0)20 7776 0943
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Sally Cates
Managing Director, Strategic Communications
Thomson Financial
Tel: +1 646 822 2076
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Fred Hawrysh
Global Director, External Communications
The Thomson Corporation
Tel: +1 203 539 8314
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Frank Golden
Vice President, Investor Relations
The Thomson Corporation
Tel: +1 203 539 8470
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The Thomson Corporation Disclosure in Accordance with Rule 2.10 of the City Code

2007-10-15T04:25:00.000-07:00

In accordance with Rule 2.10 of the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers, The Thomson Corporation confirms that as of the close of business on October 9, 2007, it had 640,784,475 common shares in issue.

The ISIN reference for these securities is CA8849031056.

Dealing Disclosure Requirements
Under the provisions of Rule 8.3 of the Takeover Code (the 'Code'), if any person is, or becomes, 'interested' (directly or indirectly) in 1% or more of any class of 'relevant securities' of Thomson or of Reuters, all 'dealings' in any 'relevant securities' of that company (including by means of an option in respect of, or a derivative referenced to, any such 'relevant securities') must be publicly disclosed by no later than 3.30 pm (London time) on the London business day following the date of the relevant transaction. This requirement will continue until the date on which the Transaction becomes, or is declared, unconditional, lapses or is otherwise withdrawn or on which the 'offer period' otherwise ends. If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal, to acquire an 'interest' in 'relevant securities' of Thomson or Reuters, they will be deemed to be a single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.

Under the provisions of Rule 8.1 of the Code, all 'dealings' in 'relevant securities' of Thomson or Reuters by Thomson or Reuters, or by any of their respective 'associates', must be disclosed by no later than 12.00 noon (London time) on the London business day following the date of the relevant transaction.

A disclosure table, giving details of the companies in whose 'relevant securities' 'dealings' should be disclosed, and the number of such securities in issue, can be found on the Takeover Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk.

'Interests in securities' arise, in summary, when a person has long economic exposure, whether conditional or absolute, to changes in the price of securities. In particular, a person will be treated as having an 'interest' by virtue of the ownership or control of securities, or by virtue of any option in respect of, or derivative referenced to, securities.

Terms in quotation marks are defined in the Code, which can also be found on the Panel’s website. If you are in any doubt as to whether or not you are required to disclose a 'dealing' under Rule 8, you should consult the Panel.

The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

Thomson Scientific Extends Patent Data, Functionality of INPADOC

2007-10-15T04:19:00.000-07:00

Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that the INPADOC/Patent Family and Legal Status database on Dialog has been enhanced with an extended content set, additional search capabilities and more comprehensive results for patent searchers. For a complete list of enhancements, visit www.dialog.com/inpadoc.

INPADOC (File 345 on Dialog) is a comprehensive resource of approximately 62.5 million patents represented in 34 million patent family records from more than 80 countries. The INPADOC database on Dialog is unique because it brings together equivalent patents that share common priorities for a particular invention in a single family record.

“We continue to expand our patent coverage on Dialog, as well as make the search experience faster and easier,” said Geoffrey Dick, Director of Publisher Management, Thomson Scientific. “With the additional content and functionality added to the INPADOC database, patent researchers will gain greater insights from patent data.”

Enhancements to INPADOC on Dialog include:

New Content:

Approximately 10 million family records will be enhanced with either abstracts, search reports or both.
Approximately 100,000 19th century patents available.
Cited references are available for both searching and display, making prior art and patent infringement screening more effective.
The format of all patent application and publication numbers has been normalized for consistency and ease of retrieval.
Each patent in the patent family table includes the week it was originally added to the database.

Indexing:

Indexing has been enhanced with the addition of new fields and searchable European Classification (ECLA) codes, among other changes.

Display Enhancements:

INPADOC data is better organized and easier to read when displayed in Dialog interfaces supporting HTML.
New alerting formats provide a summary of changes to the record made in the current update which allows you to pinpoint new information more easily.
All full formats include the patent family table.
Data presented in table format, such as patent families, priorities, and IPC codes can be easily cut and pasted into spreadsheet and word processing software.

Thomson Scientific provides access to more than 50 million patent records from more than 80 countries and authorities through its Dialog platform. Other patent databases accessible via Dialog include Derwent World Patents Index® (DWPISM), Derwent World Patents Index First ViewSM, Derwent Patents Citation Index, LitAlert®, CLAIMS®/US Patents, European Patents Fulltext, German Patents Fulltext, IMS Patent Focus, JAPIO, US Patents Fulltext, WIPO/PCT Patents Fulltext and more.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation’s common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

Thomson Scientific is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Its information solutions assist professionals at every stage of research and development—from discovery to analysis to product development and distribution. Thomson Scientific information solutions can be found at scientific.thomson.com.

Common Early-Warning Symptoms of Ovarian Cancer Identified in CDC/Thomson Healthcare Study

2007-10-15T04:04:00.000-07:00

October 8, 2007 — In a study published in the Journal of Women’s Health, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Thomson Healthcare (NYSE: TOC; TSK: TOC) found a distinct pattern of medical signs and symptoms that occurred prior to the detection of ovarian cancer.

According to the study, the conditions patients experienced before an ovarian cancer diagnosis included abdominal pain, urinary tract conditions, menopausal disorders, female genital symptoms, and gastrointestinal symptoms. These symptoms were most pronounced in the 30-90 days prior to diagnosis.

To make this determination, researchers analyzed medical claims from 920 patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer and tracked the symptoms those patients experienced prior to diagnosis. These results were compared with claims data for 2,760 women without ovarian cancer matched on age, geographic region, Medicare eligibility, and health plan type.

Five conditions were identified as being possibly related to ovarian cancer because they were reported significantly more frequently by women diagnosed with the cancer than they were in the comparison group. While all symptoms were reported among women with and without ovarian cancer, the rate of these symptoms was higher, and continued to increase, beginning 90 days prior to diagnosis. Abdominal pain was most frequently linked to a subsequent ovarian cancer diagnosis, with 83 percent of women in the ovarian cancer group recording abdominal pain within 30 days of diagnosis in contrast to fewer than two percent in the comparison group.

Other symptoms more frequently recorded for the ovarian cancer group included female genital symptoms, which were 3.5 times more frequent, and gastrointestinal symptoms, which were 1.5 to 2 times more frequent. Urinary tract disorders and menopausal symptoms were also recorded twice as frequently among the women in the ovarian cancer group.

This study found that while the presence of ovarian cancer-related symptoms and conditions prior to diagnoses was documented in the medical claims data, this increase was most pronounced in the two to three months prior to diagnosis. Still, there remains a challenge to link symptoms with ovarian cancer, as many of the related symptoms are also present for several other disorders and diseases.

“Ovarian cancer is most often diagnosed at the later stages,” said Stella Chang, research director at Thomson Healthcare and co-author of the study. “Identifying a pattern of symptoms can keep doctors one step ahead of a dangerous disease. It is important to understand that these symptoms do not automatically dictate that a woman has ovarian cancer, but recognizing them could lead to earlier diagnosis and more treatment options to save a patient’s life.”

About the Study
The study, “Temporal Patterns of Conditions and Symptoms Potentially Associated with Ovarian Cancer,” was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Thomson Healthcare. It is published in the September issue of the Journal of Women’s Health (Volume 16, Number 7, pp. 971-986.)

The authors are Michelle Wynn, formerly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control; Stella Chang of Thomson Healthcare; and Lucy Peipins of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.

About Thomson Healthcare
Thomson Healthcare is the leading provider of decision support solutions that help organizations across the healthcare industry improve clinical and business performance. Thomson Healthcare products and services help clinicians, hospitals, employers, health plans, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies manage the cost and improve the quality of healthcare. Thomson Healthcare is a part of The Thomson Corporation, a provider of value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of healthcare, law, tax, accounting, scientific research, and financial services. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). For more information, visit (www.thomsonhealthcare.com).

New DialogClassic Web Accelerates Information Flow

2007-10-15T04:01:00.000-07:00

Cary, NC USA, London UK, February 14, 2007 — Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities today announced that Dialog has released a new version of DialogClassic Web™, a browser-based search tool providing access to the more than 600 informational databases in the Dialog content collection, covering subject areas such as business information and news, engineering and technology, market research, intellectual property, pharmaceutical, life sciences, energy and the environment.

DialogClassic Web is designed for information professionals and provides the power of command-language searching in a Web-based solution with no software to install. The latest release of DialogClassic Web offers a number of time-saving features, including:

Advanced post-processing options that make results easier to use, review, edit, analyze and distribute. Pre-made templates turn search results into professionally formatted reports ready for immediate distribution in Microsoft® Word or Excel.
An updated graphical interface with menu icons for common tasks, making navigation easier.
Easy fill-in-the-blanks forms for editing and revising SearchSaves, Alerts and other stored data
Links to fulltext journal articles and other documents are supported including Dialog eLinks, and document images for D&B® Company Reports, NTIS Technical Reports and Investext® Broker/Analyst Reports.
"With this new version of DialogClassic Web, we have given information professionals the robust set of tools they need to more quickly distribute information to key stakeholders in their organization," said Tom Tankelewicz, Dialog Senior Director, Product Development. "Providing these tools in a Web-based environment gives them the freedom to do more without installing software or upgrading hardware."

Other special features in the new DialogClassic Web include:

30-day history of all Dialog search activity, including document downloads
Create and edit your search strategy in the Type-ahead buffer before running it
Enter command statements up to 2,000 characters long
Load saved search strategies from a file on your computer
Save search results in Word, HTML, Text or Adobe PDF formats
New XML, HTML and TEXT commands enable output in these formats for easy integration into other applications
View links to Bluesheets and other reference materials in the new Databases pane
Navigate your search with the new Session navigation pane
Streamline post-processing with new mark-and-copy features
Search Chemical Structures using drawing files (MOL) to retrieve data on relevant molecules from drug and chemical databases
For more information about the new, enhanced DialogClassic Web, please visit: www.thomsondialog.com/dialogclassicweb.

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About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing essential electronic workflow solutions to business and professional customers. With operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications to professionals in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).