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Kristen Conte
eMeta Corporation
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ProQuest Selects eMeta to Power Web Archive for Publishing Industry
eRights Suite to Provide Security and Commerce Functionality for ProQuest Archiver
NEW YORK - April 14, 2002 - eMeta Corporation, the leading provider of enterprise software that maximizes the value of digital assets and services, today announced that ProQuest Company has implemented the eRights Suite to protect and provide full commerce functionality for ProQuest Archiver. Specifically, ProQuest is now using the eRights Suite to manage the protection, packaging, pricing and billing of online archive content for more 8,500 publishers worldwide.
The eRights Suite has been deployed as the commerce backbone for ProQuest Archiver, a service that provides publishers with a turnkey, e-commerce-enabled online archive solution. ProQuest Archiver is used by major newspaper publishers worldwide, including USA Today , The Associated Press, the Tribune Corporation and Scottish Media Group. With the enhancements that the eRights Suite provides, ProQuest Archiver customers have greater flexibility in determining packaging and billing options for their customers.
"ProQuest Archiver provides publishers with a flexible, customized tool for managing their online archives," said Diane Schulman, director of publisher services, ProQuest. "The eRights Suite not only supplies the security and access control elements necessary to effectively manage an archive, but most importantly, it delivers the commerce features ProQuest customers need to more effectively profit from that content."
ProQuest provides global access to the largest commercial repository in the world, and has more than 60 years of experience in archiving published materials. ProQuest developed ProQuest Archiver to allow periodicals to develop digitized custom archives of their online content. With addition of the eRights Suite and its ability to preserve the value of information through metering the terms and conditions of use, ProQuest Archiver has taken a significant step forward in the evolution of content-based e-commerce.
"Publishers must find new ways to capitalize on the value of their online information and ProQuest is a key component of many leading publishers' strategies," said Jon Lewin, founder and CTO of eMeta Corporation. "The addition of the eRights Suite's extensive commercialization technology to ProQuest Archiver gives publishers a more productive channel for revenue generation."
About ProQuest
ProQuest Company is based in Ann Arbor, Mich., and is a leading provider of value-added information and content to the library, classroom, automotive, outdoor power equipment and powersports industries. We provide products and services to our customers through two business segments: Information & Learning and Business Solutions. Through our Information & Learning segment, which primarily serves the library and classroom markets, we aggregate and publish value-added content from a wide range of sources including newspapers, periodicals and books. The ProQuest Business Solutions unit is primarily engaged in the delivery in electronic form of comprehensive parts information to the automotive market. It also provides dealers in the outdoor power equipment, and powersports (motorcycle, marine and RV) markets with management systems that enable them to manage their inventory, customer service and other aspects of their businesses. ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and distributing information worldwide to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general-reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,000 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey™ electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, bigchalk® educational resources, and XanEdu™ online faculty and student resources. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit http://www.il.proquest.com.
About eMeta Corporation
eMeta is the leading provider of access control and commerce software for media and software companies. eMeta’s advanced solutions and services enable its many globally recognized customers to sell and control their digital goods and services, maximizing the value of their digital assets. Recognized by Deloitte in 2004 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America, eMeta counts Pearson, The McGraw-Hill Companies, IEEE, New York Times Digital, Wolters Kluwer, Celera Genomics, and iVillage among its many clients. The company is based in New York City. Additional information is available at www.emeta.com.
