Atypon

SANTA CLARA, CA – September 19, 2002 – Atypon Systems and CrossRef announced today the launch of the enhanced CrossRef reference linking service, built by Atypon. Using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), the service connects bibliographic references between publishers.

With Atypon's innovations in place, the new CrossRef system:

• Links other content types, such as major reference works and conference proceedings in addition to electronic journals.
• Improves the citation matching through fuzzy matching.
• Increases scalability and performance.
• Facilitates system administration and monitoring capabilities for advanced reporting.

Atypon's Literatum e-publishing software, which currently powers websites such as Academic Press' IDEAL Library and Blackwell Publishing' Synergy electronic journal platform, has been customized to fit the CrossRef system requirements. It is a modular solution that can be leveraged for multiple electronic content types and provides sophisticated access control, administration, e-commerce models, and usage reporting functionality.

"We are very excited about this successful launch of the new CrossRef system. A few of the immediate benefits are a 5-fold increase in matching, integration of new content types, and decreased system administration resources required," said CrossRef Executive Director, Ed Pentz. "Thanks to our partnership with Atypon, they have proactively resolved issues and made enhancements at no additional cost."

"By extending Literatum, our advanced publishing system, with sophisticated fuzzy matching technology, Atypon has created a solution that serves CrossRef, its member publishers, and ultimately every researcher and scholar," stated Atypon CEO, Georgios Papadopoulos. "Literatum's performance, functionality, and reliability make it the ideal platform to offer new services in the future."

"With Atypon's technology in place, we have seen significant improvements in system performance, and ease of administration," said Chuck Koscher, CrossRef's Director of Information Technology. "The data migration went very smoothly and all change requests have been handled quickly and efficiently. Atypon's responsiveness and dependability allow us to focus our attention on moving forward with new projects."

"Atypon is pleased to be able to provide a technology backbone for such an important industry initiative," said Ravi Singh, Atypon VP of Corporate Development. "CrossRef joins a list of clients who have all enjoyed the benefits of working with Atypon, such as the highest quality of technology, flexibility, and responsiveness in meeting their needs and the determination to drive long term value as a strategic partner. We look forward to expanding our partnership with CrossRef."

About Atypon

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

Atypon's electronic publishing software, Literatum manages content for eJournals, eReference Works, eBooks, and other digital media. This software powers major websites such as Academic Press' IDEAL and Blackwell Publishing's Synergy.

In addition to software, Atypon provides publishers the option of a complete outsourced solution through its Business Services Provider (BSP) platform in conjunction with 16 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 office in Athens, Greece. For more information on Atypon Systems, please visit http://www.atypon.com.

About CrossRef

CrossRef now has 152 publisher members whose content represents over 6,400 journals and almost 5 million article records. It was established by scholarly publishers as an independent, non-profit entity in 2000, and uses open standards to ensure permanent reference links between online content. CrossRef is an official registration agency of the International DOI Foundation (IDF, http://www.doi.org/), and is the first full-scale implementation of the DOI system. More information is available at http://www.crossref.org.

Contact:
Kristen Fisher
Director of Product Marketing
Atypon Systems
Telephone (408) 988-1240 ext. 315
kristen@atypon.com