Subject:  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: HARRASSOWITZ and TDNet sign agreement
to provide e-content management services
From:  KKlemperer@ottosvc.com
Date:  Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:36:07 -0400

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TDNet and HARRASSOWITZ to collaborate in providing e-content management
solutions.

April 1, 2003, West Chester, PA, & Wiesbaden, Germany:

Through an agreement reached in March, 2003, TDNet
[http://www.tdnet.com], a leading supplier of electronic resource
management solutions, and HARRASSOWITZ [http://www.harrassowitz.de], a
major periodicals subscription agent, will collaborate to provide
complete and consolidated access to electronic content for libraries in
the USA and Canada.  The collaboration will begin in April, 2003.

Through this agreement, HARRASSOWITZ will act as agent to supply TDNet
services in the USA and Canada, making it possible for libraries to
manage their electronic resources through one source.  In addition,
subscription information from e-journals purchased through HARRASSOWITZ
will automatically be included in a library's TDNet services.   As a
result, libraries will gain consolidated access to all of the e-journals
that they are licensed to use, including their individual subscriptions
supplied by HARRASSOWITZ as well as those licensed via aggregator or
gateway systems.
TDNet provides complete e-content management services, including A-to-Z
title lists, searchable tables of contents, links to full text, TOC
alerts, usage statistics and MARC cataloging data.

According to TDNet's Michael Markwith, "Working with HARRASSOWITZ allows
us to take advantage of HARRASSOWITZ's superior customer service
organization to establish relationships with a large number of libraries
in the USA and Canada.  By responding jointly to libraries' RFP's, TDNet
and HARRASSOWITZ will be able to provide complete and consolidated
e-journal access to these libraries."

Dr. Knut Dorn, Managing Partner of HARRASSOWITZ, said, "TDNet's products
are a logical extension of our services.  This collaboration will give
our customers the opportunity to develop collections of e-journals that
include individual subscriptions as well as pre-packaged aggregations.
Libraries will now be able to regain control over their
collection-development decisions and overcome the unpredictability in
coverage often found in other aggregated collections."

About TDNet.  TDNet's unique solutions to electronic contents and
electronic journals management are based on an original approach
integrating a diversity of access modes to electronic sources, on one
unified, coherent site. TDNet is a custom-made eContents service,
tailored to include all of a library's chosen titles, and to reflect the
library's current access arrangements for every title. TDNet's database
currently holds over 50,000 e-journal web sites and table of contents
records.

About HARRASSOWITZ.  HARRASSOWITZ is a global full-service subscription
agent and bookseller headquartered in Wiesbaden, Germany, specializing
in service to academic and research libraries.  HARRASSOWITZ has been in
continuous operation since 1872.

Contact Information:

Michael Markwith, President, TDNet Inc.
(Michael@tdnet.teldan.com)
PO Box 38
West Chester, PA
Telephone: (888) 705-3582
Fax: (610) 738-9124

Knut Dorn, Ph.D., Managing Partner, HARRASSOWITZ (kdorn@harrassowitz.de)
Wiesbaden, Germany
Telephone: +49 611 530 200
Fax:  +49 611 530 560.
In the US: (800) 348-6886 Fax (251) 342-5732.