Contact: Michael Miyazaki
(301) 961-6761 or E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com

For Immediate Release

OCUL Selects CSA Interface

OCUL will also archive CSA databases

BETHESDA , Maryland , USA (27 February 2006) -- OCUL (Ontario Council of University Libraries) has selected the CSA Illumina platform to serve as the basis of its new Scholars Portal (SP) Search service. Moreover, OCUL will serve as a permanent archive for bibliographic databases published by CSA.

SP Search provides a single interface through which all electronic information resources made available by OCUL will be delivered. OCUL will use a version of the CSA Illumina platform as the platform for the service, rebranded with the "SP Search" name. OCUL will create filters to ensure that all its electronic subscriptions are compatible with the new SP Search service.

SP Search will also make all the bibliographic databases published by CSA available to OCUL users. In addition, CSA will create a permanent archive of its bibliographic publications on the OCUL site.

"CSA has long enjoyed strong ties with the University of Toronto and the entire OCUL consortium," said Matt Dunie, President of CSA. "We are deeply honored that they chose the CSA Illumina platform as the underlying structure for SP Search. And we are grateful that they will serve as a host for the archive of CSA's publications."

The Scholars Portal services are operated by the University of Toronto Libraries on behalf of the Ontario Council of University Libraries. "We are very pleased to offer our users the functionality and services available through the CSA Illumina platform," said Peter Clinton , Director, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries. "Every day we find more reasons why this was a great decision."

Established in 1967, OCUL has a long history of collaboration and co-operation among its member institutions. Today, OCUL is a consortium of twenty university libraries in the province of Ontario. The member libraries cooperate to enhance information services through resource sharing, collective purchasing, document delivery and many other similar activities.

"CSA Illumina plays a vital role in our being able to integrate all of our electronic resources and to provide the same high level of support for the teaching, learning and research activities of students and faculty in all 20 Ontario universities," said Alan Darnell, Manager, Scholarly Information Resources.

Named as an EContent top 100 company for 2005, CSA is a worldwide information company that serves as a guide to researchers to facilitate their effectiveness by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities and technology. A privately held company, CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices throughout the U.S. as well as in such locations as Australia, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, the UAE and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions in 80 countries use CSA's information resources. CSA has been a leader in publishing and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years.

For further information, contact Michael Miyazaki, Marketing Manager, CSA (Tel. +1 301 961 6761 / E-mail: mmiyazaki@csa.com).

#