Hogrefe Group Launches New Electronic Content Hosting Site with MetaPress®

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, U.S.A. – April 10, 2007 – MetaPress® is pleased to announce that the Hogrefe Group has chosen the MetaPress 2.0 platform to host the organization’s PsyCONTENT online psychology information service.

PsyCONTENT provides access to: PsyJOURNALS, a collection of 29 full-text psychology and psychiatry journals published by Hogrefe & Huber; PsycINFO® and PsycARTICLES® databases; and PsyCOLLECTION, Hogrefe & Huber’s electronic book collection. Additional full-text databases and collections will be added in the coming months.

The MetaPress 2.0 platform is the industry’s first content management system with dimensional navigation across a variety of content types. A primary source online hosting platform for more than 20,000 scholarly publications around the world, MetaPress provides a comprehensive solution to Web publishing needs and offers an established way to publish titles electronically regardless of present content or current format.

“We wanted a state-of-the-art platform to host our PsyCONTENT service, a unique online content platform for psychologists and psychiatrists that includes 29 of our psychology/psychiatry journals, as well as a range of abstract and full-text databases such as PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES,” said Robert Dimbleby, publishing manager,  Hogrefe & Huber Publishers GmbH. “After a long search, we decided MetaPress would be the ideal partner to host PsyCONTENT and provide a fully integrated content platform for researchers and practitioners.”

“MetaPress is excited to have an opportunity to showcase our multiple content format hosting capabilities, and proud that Hogrefe has provided us with this opportunity,” said Michael Margotta, director of sales and marketing, MetaPress. “The integration of Hogrefe’s own content with licensed databases provides a unique opportunity for professionals in the psychology discipline to cross correlate a vast repository of knowledge.”

About The Hogrefe Group:
The Hogrefe Group, with offices and affiliated companies in Germany, Switzerland, UK, USA, Czech Republic, France, The Netherlands, Austria and Denmark, publishes journals and books in the fields of psychology, medicine and nursing, and is also one of the world’s leading publishers of psychological assessment instruments. For more information, visit www.hogrefe.ch/.

About MetaPress
MetaPress serves publishers worldwide by hosting their content online, making it accessible by a wide audience of viewers who appreciate the high quality client services that MetaPress provides. As a silent partner dedicated to supporting and enhancing the publisher’s brand in the marketplace, MetaPress has grown to become the world’s largest primary content host site. Services include content management, Web hosting, custom branded Web site development and e-commerce support. MetaPress is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., a diversified company founded in 1944. For more information, visit www.metapress.com.

EBSCO contact:
Tiffany S. Adams
Corporate Communications
+1 205 980-5693

MetaPress contact:
Michael Margotta
Director of Sales and Marketing
+1 205 991-1176

Hogrefe Group contact:
Robert Dimbleby
Publishing Manager, Hogrefe & Huber Publishers GmbH
+49 551 496090