Ian Hames

For more than a decade, ebrary has been working with libraries, corporations, government, publishers and societies, aggregators and distributors, individuals and others to address their digital content needs. Their mission is to provide the most cost-effective and efficient way for their customers to acquire and distribute important information, while offering end-users the most powerful tools for information retrieval, discovery, and management. In addition to content products, which include handbooks, e-books, manuals, reports and other authoritative documents under flexible subscription and purchase models, they license their technology to organizations that need a cost-effective and efficient way to distribute and integrate their own digital materials online. ebrary currently has more than 3,000 customers around the world serving more than 17 million end-users. They have partnered with more than 425 of the world's leading publishers, and their growing network of international resellers, book vendors, and other partners distribute their products and services worldwide. ebrary is privately held and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA.

Credo Reference Ltd. provides online reference services for libraries and information centers. It aggregates authoritative reference works for online delivery to public, corporate, and academic libraries worldwide on a subscription basis. Its reference works include dictionaries, encyclopedias, statistical resources, atlases, maps and gazetteers, religious texts, thesauri chronologies and glossaries. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Oxford, the United Kingdom.

Oxford University Press, Inc. provides printing and stationery services. It publishes and distributes scholarly works, reference publications, dictionaries, bibles and school texts. The company was founded in 1896 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Ingram Industries, Inc. engages in book distribution, print and distribution services, marine transportation and digital fulfillment services. It offers trade books, textbooks, specialty magazines, and audiotapes to booksellers, librarians and specialty retailers. The company was founded by Erskine Bronson Ingram II in 1978 and is headquartered in Nashville, TN.

Ovid Technologies, Inc. provides electronic medical, scientific and academic research information solutions. It offers a customizable suite of content, tools and services. It also supports the research needs of about 13 million users. The company was founded in 1988 and is located in New York, NY.