IPSWICH, Mass. - January 11, 2006 - EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) today announced the release of Executive Daily Brief™ (EDB), the innovative and unique result of a partnership with the Content Analyst Company. EDB combines Content Analyst's patented Concept Search™ with the variety of premium content offered by EBSCO, to create a customizable business information monitoring and alert service like no other before it. With its intuitive, powerful interface, EDB expedites corporate intelligence gathering and dissemination in any industry.

EDB's Concept Search engine employs the same patented search technology used in the U.S. Intelligence Community today. With this technology, EDB enables users to search for conceptually-related content by entering phrases, paragraphs or entire articles into a search box. EDB then intuitively finds and retrieves the best available relevant information. EDB actually "trains" itself as it operates, creating a more intelligent search with each use. Users set up customized folders on topics or projects of their own choosing. EDB monitors more than 10,000 premium business sources each day and automatically places relevant articles into the appropriate project folders for review, based upon example documents, emails, or article that the user places in each folder.

EDB's extensive content repository includes business journals, current articles, and real-time business news from a wide variety of premium information sources. Along with EDB's own content resources, users may customize EDB's content by exposing other sources of data to the Concept Search, such as pertinent company documents and intranet resources. EDB is ideal for Marketing & Brand Managers, Sales Personnel, Engineering and Research & Development Departments, Corporate Information Officers, Corporate General Counsel, and others seeking current specific information relevant to a given area of interest.

About Content Analyst Company
Headquartered in Reston, VA, Content Analyst Company offers robust, mature technology solutions that automate the analysis of unstructured information. Using our patented Latent Semantic Indexing technology, Content Analyst applications have solved complex text analytic problems for the intelligence community over the past six years, and recently, for the commercial sector. Content Analyst core capabilities include automated categorization, conceptual searching, and data-driven taxonomy generation across data sources from multiple languages. Our solutions enable commercial products in a wide range of fields, including intelligent push, essay scoring, resume matching, and opinion research. By leveraging powerful Content Analyst technology to automate data classification and dissemination, our clients gain competitive advantage, improve executive decision-making capacity and reduce time-to-market. For more information, visit www.contentanalyst.com.

About EBSCO Publishing
EBSCO Publishing is part of the EBSCO Information Services group. EBSCO Information Services provides libraries and research centers with online and print journal subscription services, e-resource access and management services, full-text and secondary database development and access, an OpenURL-compliant link resolver, online book purchasing, and related information services. EBSCO maintains a title database of more than 298,000 serial titles and upholds relationships with more than 78,000 publishers around the world. EBSCO's 32 Regional Offices worldwide are staffed with personnel who speak the local language and understand the particular challenges faced by librarians in their areas, offering a uniquely personal level of service. Specialized divisions serve academic, biomedical, government, public, school and special libraries as well as corporations. For more information, visit www.ebsco.com.