ISI ResearchSoft and IEEE Announce a Joint Initiative to Seamlessly Export References

With one click, references move quickly and easily from IEEE databases to EndNote, ProCite, and Reference Manager

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Carlsbad, CA, USA - March 12, 2003 - Today, Thomson ISI ResearchSoft and IEEE announce a new connectivity between the ISI ResearchSoft bibliographic software products and the IEEE Xplore® online delivery system. Now, users of the IEEE Xplore system can export reference information into EndNote®, ProCite® and Reference Manager® with one click of the "Download Citation" button.

EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager are the industry's leading bibliographic software products, and are used by over a million researchers worldwide. These products simplify research by searching Internet databases, organizing personal reference collections, and producing bibliographies instantly in over 750 output styles.

"IEEE Xplore is a dynamic, easy-to-navigate online delivery system designed to help IEEE members and customers access our publications for their research," said Barbara H. Lange, IEEE Director of Publications Product Line Management and Business Development. "We are delighted to make it easier for our users to export pre-formatted bibliographic data for their future reference needs."

"We are pleased to add IEEE to the growing list of popular database services providing direct export to our products." said David Kochalko, President of ISI ResearchSoft. "The seamless export of references from IEEE to EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager shortens the path from primary research to published papers."

About IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., (IEEE) is a non-profit, technical professional association of over 380,000 individual members in 150 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others. Through its technical publishing, conferences and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical and electronics engineering and computer sciences; holds annually more than 300 major conferences; and has nearly 900 active standards with about 700 under development.

About Thomson ISI ResearchSoft
ISI ResearchSoft (www.isiresearchsoft.com) is a division of Thomson ISI. ISI ResearchSoft publishes bibliographic software products for the desktop-EndNote, ProCite and Reference Manager used by over a million researchers, students and librarians worldwide-and for the Web-WriteNote, the research and writing tool for students. These products search remote databases and library catalogues on the Internet, import references into and organize personal libraries of citations, and produce papers written in word processors with correctly formatted in-text citations and bibliographies.

About Thomson ISI
ISI is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA with offices worldwide, ISI provides essential, high quality Web-based information to over seven million researchers, information specialists, and administrators in diverse fields. For more information about ISI, visit www.isinet.com.

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