Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and Atypon Bring Classic Symposia Series Online.

Business Editors

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. & SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 2, 2003--Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press) and Atypon Systems announced today a partnership that will result in the proceedings of the Cold Spring Harbor Symposia being published online for the first time.

The most highly cited book series in biology, published in print since 1933, these volumes contain the papers delivered at the symposium held each June at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. The focus of each meeting is on a research topic of major importance and the invited speakers represent the world's leading laboratories in that field. Many exceptional discoveries have been announced to the scientific community on these occasions, including the structure of DNA, the existence of jumping genes and RNA splicing, and the invention of the polymerase chain reaction. The forthcoming title in the series is The Genome of Homo sapiens and recent volumes include The Cardiovascular System, The Ribosome, and Biological Responses to DNA Damage.

As the technology partner for CSHL Press on this project, Atypon will provide the underlying electronic publishing platform for the Symposia's online site. The backbone of the site will be Atypon's Literatum software and hosting service. A cost-effective solution for publishers of all sizes, Literatum has served the needs of publishers such as the Academic Press' IDEAL Library, Blackwell Publishing, Annual Reviews, and CrossRef's enhanced reference linking service.

"The Symposium volumes are respected throughout the scientific community for their current and historic significance and are bought each year by a large number of libraries. We are delighted to be able to assist the libraries by offering the volumes online," said Dr John Inglis, Executive Director of CSHL Press. "With Atypon's help, we are creating a dynamic, searchable and fully linked environment for readers to access present and past volumes in the series. I am looking forward to a highly productive and creative partnership with Atypon."

Atypon's unique software gives publishers complete, hands-on control over content production, packaging, and presentation to customers.

Some of the features that Atypon technology will bring to the Symposia are:

-- Searching and browsing across all Symposia in multiple ways

-- Dynamically added and regularly updated links in the full text

PDF content

-- Extensive, searchable backfile of legacy content

-- User personalization options such as alerts, saved searches,

exporting to reference managers and more

-- Real-time, downloadable usage reports for institutional

administrators

"We anticipate great innovations to come from our new partnership with CSHL Press," said Georgios Papadopoulos, Atypon's CEO. "The Press' progressive electronic publishing ideas and high quality content combined with our technology will bring scholars interesting new intellectual tools."

With the Symposia project leading the way, CSHL Press and Atypon expect to bring more important new initiatives to readers of CSHL Press publications in the future.

About Atypon

Since 1996, Atypon Systems, Inc. has focused on providing software and services to the information industry.

Atypon offers a suite of software and services for the Information Industry. Atypon's electronic publishing software, Literatum, manages content for eJournals and other digital media. Literatum powers major websites such as Blackwell Synergy, Annual Reviews, and CrossRef. Other services include PDFplus, which dynamically adds links to PDFs and LINKplus, a full service linking solution for publishers.

In addition to software, Atypon provides publishers the option of a complete outsourced hosting solution in conjunction with 17 leading technology vendors including Akamai, IBM, Dell, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Atypon's customers range from non-profit organizations to the world's leading publishers. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, California and maintains a European support office. For more information on Atypon Systems, please visit http://www.atypon.com.

About Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press is a division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and assists the Laboratory's purpose of furthering the advance and spread of scientific knowledge. Revenue from sales of its publications to professional scientists, students, and the general public is used solely in support of research at the Laboratory.

CSHL Press publishes monographs, technical manuals, handbooks, textbooks, history, biography, research journals, electronic media, and trade books in molecular and cell biology, genetics, cancer biology, and bioinformatics.