Infotrieve Signs Agreements with Prestigious STM Publishers.

Business Editors

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2002

Infotrieve, the world's leading commercial article vendor, today announced agreements with some of the most highly regarded scientific, technical and medical (STM) publishers in the world. With these agreements, Infotrieve continues to pursue its strategic goal of providing customers with online access to articles published in the most significant, high impact STM journals in research, including Nature and Science. These new content agreements bring the number of full-text documents available for immediate download through the Infotrieve website to over 1.5 million. Infotrieve is extremely pleased to be providing access to articles published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in its journal Science, Cambridge University Press, the International Union of Crystallography, Multilingual Matters, Nature Publishing Group, and Walter de Gruyter

American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS), publisher of the weekly, peer-reviewed journal, Science, is the world's largest general scientific society. Founded in 1848, AAAS' niche is the intersection of science and society; and examining questions of concern to world citizens and their governments -- from human rights and ecosystem protection to federal spending, ethics and equity. Science features original scientific research, plus reviews and analyses of current research and science policy. www.sciencemag.org.

Cambridge University Press is one of the largest academic and educational publishers in the world, publishing over 2000 books and 150 journals that are distributed worldwide. CUP began publishing in 1534 and began publishing the Journal of Physiology on behalf of the Physiological Society in 1893. CUP publishes journals such as Psychological Medicine and Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and also publishes journals on behalf of major learned societies, including the Royal Historical Society, the American Political Science Association and the London Mathematical Society. http://uk.cambridge.org.

The International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) promotes international cooperation in crystallography and contributes to all aspects of the field of study. Among its key objectives, the IUCr facilitates international publication of crystallographic research including ten primary journals. www.iucr.org.

Multilingual Matters is an international publisher specializing in all aspects of multilingual and multicultural education, including second language learning. Its related imprint, Channel View Publications, publishes material on environmental education and tourism. www.multilingual-matters.com.

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is the scientific publishing arm of Macmillan Publishers Ltd. NPG publishes Nature, their flagship weekly journal, along with seven Nature Research Journals, six Nature Reviews, the NPG Specialist Journals and NPG Reference publications. NPG's mission is to develop and deliver outstanding, dynamic reference works for senior undergraduate students, graduates, postgraduates and professional scientists and to provide the world's premier information resource for the basic biological and physical sciences. www.nature.com.

Walter de Gruyter is an international academic publishing house situated in Berlin and New York. They publish books and journals in a wide variety of academic fields in both German and English. De Gruyter draws authors from around the world, wherever there is a university or a research institute. www.degruyter.com.

About Infotrieve

Launched in 1987, Los Angeles-based Infotrieve is one of the largest independent document delivery and library services companies in the world. Infotrieve's mission is to facilitate efficient, affordable, and innovative methods of distributing published materials while protecting the rights of content creators. Infotrieve is fast becoming the market leader in the Article Economy with the delivery of electronic content (eContent). www.infotrieve.com.