"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.webassign.
WebAssign is a hosted system headquartered at North Carolina State
University's Centennial Campus in Raleigh, with servers located at MCNC in
Research Triangle Park.

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For enquiries, please contact:

Joan Robinson
Springer
Telephone: +49-(0)-6221-487-8130
joan.
WebAssign products already available with Thomson Brooks/Cole textbooks in
physics, chemistry, astronomy, and biology have garnered acclaim from both
professors and students. With operational headquarters in
Stamford, Conn.

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Professors like WebAssign because they find that
students complete more of their assignments with more proficiency , which adds
up to increased success in the course."
Thomson Brooks/Cole content and technology experts worked closely with
WebAssign to develop custom material that enhances the standard WebAssign
offering.

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"In
quantitative courses , completing homework problems regularly and accurately is
crucial to student success in the course .

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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. Its publication spectrum includes
biomedicine and life sciences, clinical and practice-oriented medicine,
physics, technology, mathematics , geosciences, computer sciences, economics
and humanities. "By making both our own highly
successful ThomsonNOW course management system and the WebAssign system
available, we can better meet the individual needs and preferences of each
instructor.

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In addition to online end-of-chapter problems with feedback, Thomson
Brooks/Cole Mathematics WebAssign products include tutorials, videos, and an
integrated eBook that allows students to access pertinent examples or
explanations from their textbook while they are working their problems.

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WebAssign
products for developmental and precalculus mathematics will be available to
students for fall 2006 classes.

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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".
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)."
As Joe Heafner of Catawba Valley Community College said of his experience
with WebAssign in his college physics course, "WebAssign's greatest advantage
is that students get immediate feedback on their work. The Corporation's common shares are
listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

About WebAssign
A relatively small company, WebAssign has been leading the field of online
homework systems in innovation, responsiveness, and acceptance by higher
education since its inception in 1997.

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

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Thomson Higher Education Teams with WebAssign to Extend Popular Online Homework System to Customers Using Thomson Brooks/Cole Mathematics Textbooks

Classes "flow" better because WebAssign can be integrated into classroom
instruction.

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92-XX Biology and other natural sciences
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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."
SpringerLink contains over 1,200 journals. The second greatest
advantage is that I no longer have to grade innumerable homework papers."
Instructors can view a demo of the new mathematics WebAssign offering from
Thomson Brooks/Cole by visiting http://www.

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It publishes 1,350 journals and over 3 ,500 new books every
year, from 13 locations around the world.70 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information
solutions to business and professional customers.

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, Thomson Higher Education , a
global provider of teaching materials for higher education and part of the
Thomson Company (TSX: TOC, NYSE: TOC), and WebAssign, the leading online
homework and testing service for math and science, today announced the
expansion of their alliance to include developing WebAssign products for
Thomson Brooks/Cole's developmental, finite, and precalculus mathematics
textbooks.com/brookscole ., Thomson has approximately 40,000 employees and provides
services in approximately 130 countries .

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BELMONT, Calif.

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WebAssign homework system proven to increase student success in the
quantitative disciplines.

About The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Higher Education
The Thomson Corporation (http://www.

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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. Wakely,
president, Thomson Arts and Sciences.

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"We are confident that our mathematics customers will be as pleased with
the results they achieve with our customized WebAssign products as are their
colleagues in the sciences," said Michelle Julet, vice president, editor-in-
chief for Mathematics and the Sciences for Thomson Brooks /Cole.com), with 2005 revenues of
$8. Thomson provides value-
added information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million
users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services , higher
education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment,
scientific research and healthcare.

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Students appreciate that they can see
instantly if they are doing a problem wrong , and then can use WebAssign's
instant feedback to get back on track.
Thomson Higher Education is a leading provider of higher education textbooks,
software, and Internet materials for the humanities , behavioral and social
sciences, mathematics and the sciences, and business and economics.

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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. 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 . In traditional courses, they could
spend hours on homework and hand it in without knowing whether they were doing
the problems right or wrong.

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

robinson@springer-sbm .
"Our collaboration with WebAssign is just a small illustration of our
commitment to providing the best learning materials possible to both
instructors and students. We are dedicated to offering our customers a range
of choices in homework and course management systems," said Sean W.thomson . It
publishes under the brands of Thomson Wadsworth, Thomson Brooks/Cole, Thomson
South-Western , Thomson Heinle, and Thomson Schirmer. Currently, the service is used by
hundreds of thousands of students and teachers nationwide and internationally.

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"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
specific topics. Springer also provides an historical online
archive going back to the year 1860.

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