Content From MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica to be Made Available to
Subscribers of SpringerLink

NEW YORK, HEIDELBERG, Germany and MOSCOW, Russia ,
Springer and MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica announce a major expansion of the
English-language journals program of the Russian Academy of Sciences. "The arrangement with MAIK Nauka will also cover the development
of new publications for the scientific information market," he added, "for
example, individual spin-offs from existing journals, and 'premium journals,'
which provide users with an electronic link between journals and handbooks on
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Questia Media Partners With Transaction Publishers to License Nearly 1 000 Titles for Online Access

Questia's innovative business model, which is based on individual
subscriptions, provides a new revenue stream for publishers, as well as a new
channel of distribution.

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The journals include prestigious
publications such as JETP (Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics)
and Physics of the Solid State, both previously distributed by the American
Institute of Physics (AIP), as well as prominent journals such as Doklady
Mathematics, previously distributed by EBSCO.

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Springer Expands Market Leadership in Russia Through New Journals Agreement With the Publisher of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Springer is one of the oldest and leading international scientific
publishing companies and ranks second in the world in the science,
technology, and medicine sector (STM). It publishes 1,350 journals and over 3,500 new books every
year, from 13 locations around the world. Its list now includes the Aldine imprint, which
enhances Transaction's presence in social science and in biological
anthropology .
Located on the campus of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey,
Transaction has strong ties to the traditional mission of American university
life as a center of learning, and to applied needs of public and private
institutions in social research.

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The initial result will be an
expansion of the Springer catalogue of Russian journals in English by
approximately 50 new journals, with further expansions anticipated during the
course of the agreement.
A digital toolkit enables researchers to highlight text, properly cite
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HOUSTON, Questia Media, Inc."

About Transaction
Transaction Publishers is widely acknowledged as a major independent
publisher of social scientific books, periodicals and serials . Designed for use by
educators and students to enhance curricula, the Questia service also includes
the Questia Classroom, a teacher/student resource center that incorporates the
digital library content with class instruction.com

Sean Sullivan
Questia Media , Inc.

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"The new program opens the door for the worldwide scientific community to
gain access to leading Russian research literature, all with a few clicks on
SpringerLink," commented Rudiger Gebauer, Springer's President, Global
Publishing.

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Through Questia, publishers also can benefit from
backlisted and out-of-print titles by licensing them for online use.
"The partnership with Questia allows us to further our company goal of
enhancing public, professional, and scholarly awareness by reaching the widest
possible audience," said Irving Louis Horowitz, chairman of the board and
editorial director of Transaction Publishers.

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It also has 25 prominent book
series that contain , in total, approximately 2,700 volumes, handbooks,
reference works, and databases.

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Springer also provides an historical online
archive going back to the year 1860. Students, instructors, and lifelong learners in more
than 190 countries use Questia's collection of 56,000 full-text, copyrighted
books and nearly one million articles for scholarly research. For more information,
visit http://www.

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Starting in January, 2006, some 105 of the most important scientific
journals will be translated into English and compiled into an independent
online library within SpringerLink, the Internet portal of Springer, under
the name "Russian Library of Science". Its publication spectrum includes
biomedicine and life sciences, clinical and practice-oriented medicine,
physics, technology, mathematics, geosciences , computer sciences, economics
and humanities. In
addition, publishers' intellectual property is protected from digital
copyright violations since Questia's content is not available for download or
off-line viewing and the books are displayed one page at a time, maintaining
the original pagination . In
addition, Questia provides a personalized workspace for each user, complete
with an individual bookshelf and reference resources.

Scholarly publications (books and journals) relating to economic systems and comparative economics.

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Under this expanded program, Springer will provide the
vast majority of relevant Russian scientific content, making the company the
market leader in the sector with more than 150 journals from this region.

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which Transaction acquired in July 2004. "In addition, Questia provides
us with a new revenue stream for our content.

Contact: Wendy Dunn
Richards/Gravelle
214-891-5743
wendy_dunn@richards.

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Through its many publications, Transaction
promotes mutually beneficial exchanges between academic and professional life.

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Transaction joins more than 250 other top commercial publishers and
university presses , including Oxford University Press, Cambridge University
Press, Perseus Books Group, Taylor + Francis , Greenwood Publishing Group,
Princeton University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and Columbia University Press,
among others, who have licensed their content to the Questia library.
Transaction offers publications in older, established disciplines such as
economics, political science, history, sociology , anthropology and psychology,
as well as recently established disciplines ranging from area research to
urban studies, policy analysis, philosophy of social science, organizational
behavior and criminology .
Founded in 1998, Questia Media is based in Houston.

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Over the past six months we have added more than 6,300 new volumes of
full-text books and nearly 623,000 articles to our exceptional library," said
Troy Williams, president and CEO of Questia.

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About Questia
Questia Media, Inc.com

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, the world's largest
online academic library and research service, has partnered with Transaction
Publishers by licensing nearly 1,000 books related to international social
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Their individual subscription
model for online research has created a new and distinct market opportunity
for publishers.
713-358-2658
ssullivan@questia.

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The Russian Library of Science will contain the best articles and papers
from research institutes and scientific societies in Russia and the
surrounding countries . Nearly 700 of these titles are new to the Questia collection while
the others had been previously licensed to Questia by Aldine de Gruyter, Inc.

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For enquiries, please contact:

Joan Robinson
Springer
Telephone: +49-(0)-6221-487-8130
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mission is scholarly and professional inquiry into the nature of society. It regularly rescues important books in all of these fields from
oblivion, and reissues them in new editions with forewords by leading
scholars. provides the world's largest online academic library
and research resource.
Questia 's unlimited, 24/7 access allows researchers to simultaneously use
every item in its online, scholarly library from any connected corner of the
world.

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SpringerLink contains over 1,200 journals .
"As Questia continues to expand, we are pleased to offer these new titles.