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HighBeam Research Improves Tools, Adds Millions of Documents, Registers More Than 600,000 Members

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2004--HighBeam(TM) Research, LLC (www.highbeam.com) announced today several improvements to its research engine that will help individual researchers find, organize and deliver answers faster and more effectively. In addition, it announced that more than 600,000 individual researchers have registered for its Basic Membership since the January 26, 2004, launch of its research engine.
HighBeam Research has improved its searching functionality and has added millions of documents to its eLibrary archive.

While searching of the HighBeam Research eLibrary archive, members can now specify a list of multiple publications to search at once and they may also exclude a list of publications from their search. Members can apply the same functionality to their e-mail alerts, as well.

In addition to the improvements to research tools, HighBeam Research added more than 4 million documents to its eLibrary archive, which now provides access to a vast collection of 32 million articles and images from more than 2,800 newswires and newspapers; leading business, consumer and industry magazines and journals; transcripts; images; and reference sources. Since a year ago (when it offered the product separately as eLibrary.com), HighBeam Research has doubled the list of publications and added more than 18 million documents to the eLibrary archive.

Examples of the publications recently added to HighBeam Research include:

-- Industry focused business publications such as Armor, Automotive Design & Production, On Wall Street and U.S. Banker.

-- Niche, special-interest publications including Baseball Digest, Bowhunting and Thrasher Magazine.

-- More than 20 scholarly journals covering a broad set of subjects such as The Journal of Cultural Geography and The Professional School Counseling Journal.

-- Publications for topical research on current events such as Biography, Practical Homeschooling, The UN Chronicle and U.S. Department of Defense Speeches.

HighBeam Research has also expanded the depth of coverage for the more than 500 newspapers included in the eLibrary archive. HighBeam Research added more than 5 million documents to the newspaper archive which now goes back as far as 23 years.

Patrick Spain, chairman and CEO of HighBeam Research, said, "These improvements strengthen our position as the only provider of a comprehensive suite of research tools and content for individual researchers. No other service makes it as easy for individuals to access an extensive online news article archive, a collection of more than 20 million executive profiles and the open Web."

Regarding growth in membership, Spain said the speed with which individual researchers have registered as Basic Members indicates that they find the HighBeam Research Engine to be a convenient and valuable way to locate, organize and deliver answers.

ABOUT HIGHBEAM(TM) RESEARCH, LLC

HighBeam(TM) Research, LLC (formerly Alacritude, LLC) operates an online research engine for individuals, filling the gap between free search engines and high-end information services. By delivering sophisticated research tools with convenient access to the free Web, paid online services, and our proprietary eLibrary database, we empower individual researchers to efficiently locate, organize and deliver answers. HighBeam Research is located at (www.highbeam.com).

Contacts


HighBeam Research Public Relations
Jani Spede, 864-650-7111
jspede@highbeam.com

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