FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Executives of Alexander Street Press and Ad Fontes announced today that Alexander Street has acquired Ad Fontes’s electronic publishing projects, the Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts (CPT) and the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (DLCR). The merger will bring together the experience and resources of Alexander Street with the unique, scholarly content of Ad Fontes.

Ad Fontes has published the CPT and DLCR in collaboration with an advisory board of world-renowned scholars. The products reside in many top academic libraries around the world. Alexander Street is a recognized leader in electronic publishing in the humanities and is particularly noted for its award-winning semantic indexing.

Stephen Rhind-Tutt, president of Alexander Street Press, said, “We are extremely excited to be expanding our humanities publishing activities into the area of religion. Besides taking over Ad Fontes’s two existing databases, we’ll be announcing some very exciting new projects in the months ahead. Libraries will be very pleased as they watch our plans unfold.”

When Ad Fontes was launched in 2001, the company arranged for Alexander Street to sell the CPT initially, until Ad Fontes created its own sales force. “The two companies have had offices side by side, in the same building, for years,” said Tom Horvath, Chief Operating Officer of CNL Educational Services, the investment firm that manages Ad Fontes. “We have come to know each other’s editors and managers, so when the decision was made to sell the company, it seemed a natural fit to have the content passed to Alexander Street.” Horvath went on to say that the two groups take care of the same academic customers and honor the Ad Fontes databases equally, making for a smooth transition that’s in the best interest of libraries.

Eileen Lawrence, vice president of sales and marketing for Alexander Street Press, added, “We were honored to bring these resources to our customers in the past, and thrilled to be involved again. Our libraries have been asking for Alexander Street to develop databases in this discipline, and so this move will be a win all around.”

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Alexander Street Press, L.L.C., is an academic publisher of electronic full-text databases in the humanities, social sciences, and music. Founded in June 2000, the company publishes collections in history, literature, music, women’s studies, sociology, ethnic and diversity studies, popular culture, film studies, the arts, and other areas. Alexander Street Press is located in Alexandria, Virginia. EDITORS: For additional information on Alexander Street Press and its products, please contact Eileen Lawrence, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, 800-889-5937 ext. 211, email lawrence@alexanderstreet.com, or visit http://alexanderstreet.com.