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2) Back up everything. There's no need to spend time sorting through
every file or folder. Unfortunately, the need to back up data is often a
lesson learned from an unfortunate experience."
Ms., Full MARC Records service for e-journals,
Article Linker -- Serials Solutions' comprehensive OpenURL link resolver,
Central Search -- Serials Solutions' federated search system and its newest
product ERMS, a lifecycle manager for electronic subscriptions.proquest .

ResearchNow is a collection of academic materials drawing from several
primary sources: the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press
journals (27 and counting), bepress-hosted subject matter repositories such
as the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: The Collection of Biostatistics
Research Archive, and all working papers, preprints and other "grey
literature" content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that
have opted for inclusion.
These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing
the Company's views as of any date subsequent to February 28, 2006.

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Among those survey respondents who do back up their digital information,
the vast majority (76 percent) do so only once a month or less. Use a solution that's easy
to set up and provides automatic backups.maxtor.
adult population on the basis of region, age within gender , education,
household income, race/ethnicity, and amount of time spent weekly using a
computer ."
"Jane Burke brings a tremendous wealth of experience and knowledge to our
team," commented Steve McCracken, Vice President and Co-Founder.com .

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Maxtor has a
reputation as a proven market leader , built by consistently providing high-
quality products, services and support for its customers.

S. Maxtor
is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any responsibility to
update or alter , its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise . 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 8,500 publishers worldwide.

In addition, the forward-looking
statements included in this press release represent the Company's views as
of February 28, 2006.

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"Why gamble on losing important business documents, or worse, priceless
digital memories?" added Lund. Burke was inducted into the Chicago Area
Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame.proquestcompany.

The Berkeley Electronic Press, as a member of the Blackboard Developer
Network(SM), has developed a Building Block to expose ResearchNow content
to Blackboard's worldwide community of 12 million learners and educators.bepress.
(NASDAQ: BBBB ) is a leading provider of enterprise software applications
and related services to the education industry. The Company anticipates that subsequent events and
developments will cause the Company 's views to change.

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"We're talking about the avoidable loss of
irreplaceable family photos and videos , financial documents, personal letters,
address books, and entire music collections. With today's affordable,
simple-to-use external storage solutions such as our Maxtor OneTouch(TM) line
or the Maxtor Shared Storage(TM) family of network storage solutions, many of
the consumer behaviors and fears uncovered in our new national survey can be
easily addressed. Use two drives and rotate one
offsite."
Ms.

Blackboard Building Blocks are third party applications which enable
academic institutions to extend and customize their Blackboard
application.blackboard.

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Among the survey respondents, 11 percent said they never knew
they had to do it.backupawareness. As part of the campaign, Maxtor is promoting a
five-step "best practices" program for data protection:

1) Develop a backup schedule. adult computer users
aged 18 and older.
For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit
http://www.

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regarding protection of
digital data , images, music and video -- one of the top findings noted in the
report is a "Consumer PC Protection Consistency Gap. and globally.com or by calling toll-free 800-2-MAXTOR. "I'm eager to work with them to build on this momentum to achieve the
next stage of growth. From the search
results, instructors can select specific materials and embed links to them
within their Blackboard course web site."

"We are pleased to connect thousands of articles, working papers, and other
scholarly literature with millions of instructors and students via the
Blackboard Learning System," said Greg Tananbaum , President of The Berkeley
Electronic Press. "The ResearchNow Building Block will bring innovative
and topical content to the virtual classroom.

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Have you done it today?

About Maxtor
Maxtor Corporation (http://www. adult computer users aged 18 and older had been polled with complete
accuracy. The Maxtor OneTouch and Maxtor Shared Storage
solutions serve as an element of an overall backup strategy. These statements are based on current expectations and are
subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company's
results, including, but not limited to, market demand for hard disk drives,
the successful execution of volume manufacturing , distribution and sales
development programs, the development and implementation of new technologies
and achieving economical production yields, the company's ability to execute
future production ramps and utilize manufacturing assets efficiently and
secure its requirements of components from suppliers, pricing, competition,
and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products .

About ProQuest Information and Learning
ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting,
organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and
students in libraries and schools.

Founded by academics in 1999, bepress has a portfolio of products and
services that reduces the costs of, and barriers to, access. To learn more
about our journals, institutional repositories, subject matter
repositories, working paper series, and editorial management software, we
invite you to explore our web site at www.

About Blackboard

Blackboard Inc. With two product suites, the Blackboard Academic Suite and
the Blackboard Commerce Suite, Blackboard is used by millions of people
at academic institutions around the globe , including colleges,
universities, K-12 schools and other education providers, as well as
textbook publishers and student-focused merchants that serve education
providers and their students.

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consumer survey(1) of computer
users, sponsored by Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), indicates that many
Americans are flirting with digital disaster when it comes to a failure to
back up their files.
"Computer users who don't have a systematic backup process are, in
essence, walking a digital tightrope without a net," said Stacey Lund, vice
president of marketing, Maxtor Branded Products Group. Sampling error for the sub-samples of computer users who have
personal/professional data and digital information stored on a PC or laptop
(2,032), those with digital information stored on a PC or laptop who back up
that information (1,412) and those who have digital information stored on a PC
or laptop who do not back up that information (620) is higher and varies., with offices in North America, Europe and Asia.

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Maxtor is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MXO.

NOTE: Maxtor and the Maxtor stylized logo design are registered
trademarks, and Maxtor Shared Storage and Maxtor OneTouch, are trademarks of
Maxtor Corporation.
Among her many awards, Ms.com .

PRESS RELEASE Blackboard and Berkeley Electronic Press Announce ResearchNow Content Blackboard Building Block(TM)

(NASDAQ: BBBB) and The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) today announced
the launch of the ResearchNow Blackboard Building Block, a new tool that
integrates with the Blackboard Learning System, enabling online access
to tens of thousands of scholarly materials. Collectively, ResearchNow
materials have been downloaded more than 3 million times in the past year. "The
ResearchNow Content Building Block allows instructors to search the
ResearchNow network of high-quality scholarship and easily incorporate
these materials into their online classes. These tools provide innovative and effective means
of content production and dissemination.

This category contains references about several kinds of initiatives whose aim is to free access to peer reviewed scientific papers, namely, 'that body of work for which the author does not and never has expected to SELL the words' (S.

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"Regrettably many
people come to us after they 've already lost their data because of an
unfortunate instance like theft, a fire, a system crash , virus or an
aggressive case of spyware. Another 21 percent said they don't think it's
important enough to worry about, 20 percent think it takes too much time, and
14 percent don't back up because they believe that backup devices and services
are too costly. The company has
an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, storage systems,
high-performance Intel-based servers , and consumer electronics.S.com/extend/b2/), and is free to use.

"The ResearchNow Content Building Block is a powerful example of how the
open Blackboard Building Blocks architecture enables a Networked Learning
Environment," said Matthew Pittinsky, Chairman of Blackboard. Blackboard is headquartered in Washington,
D. Actual results may
differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements
as a result of various important factors, including the factors discussed
in the "Risk Factors" section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K
filed on February 15, 2006 with the SEC.

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S.S. Ms.
"With a strong entrepreneurial spirit and a track record of successful
leadership, Jane is uniquely qualified to lead the Serials Solutions team into
its next growth phase," said Mr. Always an involved member of the
library community, she now serves on the Board of Governors for the
Northwestern University Library and on the Board of Directors for the
Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science.

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Most Computer Users Walk a Digital Tightrope According to National Maxtor Survey

adult computer users overall indicated that they have lost
important data or digital files stored on their computer or laptop, as a
result of a computer virus, a hardware or software malfunction, or for some
other reason.
"This is the chasm that must be closed," said Dave Reinsel, director of
storage research for IDC. Burke will report to Skip
Prichard, Senior Vice President, Global Sales, ProQuest Information and
Learning.serialssolutions.com ), which was recently named one of the top 100
fastest growing technology companies in the United States by Business 2 . This Blackboard collaboration
brings first-of-its-kind visibility to both our peer-reviewed journal
imprint and our rapidly growing Digital Commons institutional repository
platform. However, while the
Company may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point
in the future, the Company specifically disclaims any obligation to do so.

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S. While most U. "In corporations there are strict policies and
procedures that govern or mandate backups and archiving activities to ensure
that data is protected. Don't let it happen to
you. Data were weighted to be representative of the total U.S.
Instructors using the Blackboard Learning System can easily search
ResearchNow directly from within their Blackboard online course.

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New Poll Finds Many Computer Users Are at Risk of Losing Important Data
Such as Financial Records, Business Documents, Photos, Music, Videos and More

MILPITAS, Calif. Today, users can easily backup all of their
computer hard drive data.

(1) Survey Methodology -- Harris Interactive(R) fielded the study on
behalf of Maxtor Corporation July 22-24, 2005, via its QuickQuerySM online
omnibus, interviewing a nationwide sample of 2,289 U. Prior to joining ProQuest, she co-founded and served as
President/CEO of Endeavor Information Systems until its sale to Reed Elsevier. Burke earned master's degrees in library science from Dominican
University (formerly Rosary College) and in management from the Kellogg School
of Management at Northwestern University. Users access the information
through the ProQuest(R) Web -based online information system, Chadwyck-
Healey(TM) electronic and microform resources, UMI(R) microform and print
reference products, eLibrary(R), SIRS(R) and Voyager Expanded Learning
educational resources, and XanEdu(R) online faculty and student resources.il.

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These
and other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with
the SEC, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2004 and its recent 10-Qs. Burke served as President of NOTIS Systems and, most recently, was
a director of new business development for Cadmus Professional Communications,
a $450-million publisher services company.
Burke.M.0 and
one of the 200 best small companies by Forbes Magazine. The ResearchNow Content Building Block is available for free
download from the Blackboard Building Blocks Catalog
(http://www."

About The Berkeley Electronic Press

The Berkeley Electronic Press ("bepress ") produces tools to improve
scholarly communication.

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Unfortunately, in the home or small office, backup and
archiving behavior is often driven by personally experiencing the loss of
personal or precious data that can never be recovered.

3) Do it automatically - set it and forget it. This
online sample is not a probability sample.

Jane Burke Named General Manager of Serials Solutions

About Serials Solutions
Serials Solutions, part of ProQuest Information and Learning , provides
complete e-journal access services to over 1,300 libraries worldwide.

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adults who have personal /professional data and digital
information stored on a PC or laptop (89 percent) know they should back up
their computer data, not many do it with any regularity.com), which will be supported by ongoing activities in
the U.

4) Rotate backups, which provides added protection in case of an
earthquake, fire, flood, or theft. "We are delighted and honored that
Jane has joined ProQuest.C. Innovate.

Harnad) and to promote institutional self-archiving of electronic preprints, in the respect of protocols and standards for electronic archives interoperability.

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, ProQuest Information
and Learning has appointed Jane Burke as Vice President, ProQuest Information
and Learning, and General Manager of Serials Solutions, a Seattle-based
business acquired by the company in July 2004 . Prichard. Relevant resources may be easily selected and
incorporated into the Blackboard Academic Suite.

Blackboard

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, In one of the world's
fastest growing "terabyte nations ," a new U.
Of the five types of digital data and personal files listed in the survey,
the ones that respondents said they'd be most upset to lose were financial
data and business records (cited by 27 percent)."
To better educate consumers about the critical importance of backup,
Maxtor recently launched its Backup Awareness campaign
(http://www. Invest in a storage solution that's twice the
size of your internal hard drive to give your system room to grow.

5) Don't procrastinate.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. In addition to working
as a librarian at Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, Illinois early in her
career, Ms. "We are
excited by her ability to help Serials Solutions deliver on our vision of
complete solutions for today's electronic collections.
ProQuest Information and Learning is a business unit of ProQuest Company
(http: //www.

Blackboard provides educational technology solutions used by more than
2,200 academic institutions and corporate and government agencies in the
United States and abroad, enabling millions of people to access educational
materials and resources at any time and from any location.com.

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Coming in a close second at
24 percent were personal photos or videos. Roughly equal numbers indicated
they would be most upset to lose contact information such as phone numbers and
addresses (17%), and personal written documents and emails (16%). Back up data daily or at minimum weekly.com) is one of the world 's leading
suppliers of hard disk drives and consumer storage solutions. All other trademarks are properties of their respective
owners. Founded
by a librarian for librarians, Serials Solutions helps librarians and patrons
by providing complete solutions for today's electronic collections.

More than 50 schools -- including the University
of California system, Boston College, Cornell, and the University of
Nebraska, as well as major universities in Europe and Australia -- use the
bepress platform for their institutional repositories. The bepress
repository platform has been co-marketed with ProQuest Information &
Learning since 2004 as Digital Commons. A "browse
by subject " option also allows for quick searching in academic areas
ranging from aerospace engineering to urban planning. Founded in 1997, Blackboard
enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and
technology.

Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and
prospects for Blackboard and other statements containing the words
"believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "will," and similar
expressions, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of
The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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While Maxtor can't alleviate the cost of
recovering lost data, we can certainly help avoid the need for data recovery
by offering products that facilitate digital backup. As an industry leader, we're trying to educate consumers
before priceless data is lost. Maxtor and its
products can be found at http://www.

This announcement relating to Maxtor may contain forward-looking
statements concerning the distribution and sale of Maxtor products and
Maxtor's execution.
Under her direction, the information retrieval company grew to $25 million in
sales, with a reputation for being customer-centric.
"The Serials Solutions founders have built a very successful business
helping librarians make better use of their electronic resources," said Ms.
Blackboard Inc.

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adults who have personal/professional data and digital information stored on a
PC or a laptop never back up their files, and a vast majority (76 percent ) of
those who do back up their files don't do it often enough."
A related and recently published industry-analyst report, "Home Data
Protection, 2005," authored by Robert Gray and Dave Reinsel of International
Data Corporation (IDC)(2), found that consumers have substantial concerns
about possible data loss of their personal information and entertainment.
Based on a survey of 406 households in the U." Based on the IDC survey,
consumers consistently stated higher levels of concern with possible loss of
data than was supported by their actions.

(2) IDC Doc# 33817, August, 2005, "Home Data Protection, 2005"

For purposes of measuring disk drive storage capacity, one gigabyte (GB)
represents one billion bytes. For more
information, please visit http://www.

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S . The poll of 2,299 adults, conducted by Harris
Interactive(R) in late July, finds that more than a third (35 percent) of U. At the same time,
44 percent of U. This finding
runs counter to Maxtor 's recommendation to back up data daily or at a minimum
weekly with a simple and automatic solution -- which the company is promoting
as part of its Backup Awareness consumer education campaign launched last
June. Of those who do
backup, 22 percent back up files only once a year or less often, 9 percent
back up files just once every 7-11 months, and 15 percent back up their
digital files just once every 4-6 months.
Despite unaddressed fears of losing valuable information and digital
memories, the most frequently-cited reason by those who said they never back
up their data is that they are not sure how to do it or that backup is too
technical (cited by 44 percent). In theory , with a probability sample of this size, one can say with
95 percent certainty that the overall results have a sampling error of plus or
minus 3 percentage points of what they would be if the entire population of
U. Burke is a well-known and respected leader in the information
solutions industry. Its
products include E-Journal A. The ResearchNow Content
Building Block makes it possible for educators to search directly in
Blackboard for access to more than 85,000 journal articles, working papers,
institutional repository materials, theses and dissertations hosted within
ResearchNow, The Berkeley Electronic Press's innovative database of
scholarly information. Everywhere.