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Ian Palmer, Head of Marketing

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ipalmer@reprintsdesk.com

Reprints Desk Makes Pharmaceutical ePrint Procurement Service

Available Through FIZ AutoDoc Document Delivery System

New service offering enables FIZ Karlsruhe customers in Europe and around the world
to simplify electronic content re-use and improve visibility into enterprise content procurement

Santa Monica, Calif., July 27, 2009– Reprints Desk, Inc., the content workflow company, and
FIZ Karlsruhe, a European-based provider of information delivery services, today announced the
immediate availability of Reprints Desk’s article eprint procurement service within the FIZ
AutoDoc full-text brokerage routing system for document delivery. The new service offering
enables FIZ AutoDoc customers, including dozens of major life science and other research-
intensive companies, to simplify the content retrieval workflow for individual buyers and to
improve internal visibility into electronic content spending and regulatory compliance.

“Besides expanding the content available via FIZ AutoDoc we are also continuously enhancing
the delivery options,” says Wendelin Detemple, Head FIZ Products and Services, Marketing and
Sales, FIZ Karlsruhe. “Therefore, we are very pleased to be able to offer Reprints Desk’s ePrint
procurement service for convenient ordering of bulk copies of articles, which is especially
important for our key customers from the pharmaceutical industry.”

FIZ AutoDoc is the document delivery system of choice for many of Europe's largest corporations,
supporting unmediated and mediated ordering for single journal articles, patent documents,
reports, conference papers, proceedings or other publications. Reprints Desk offers eprint
procurement services as part of its Reprints NRx service that makes it easier for life science and
healthcare communications companies to order bulk copies of peer-reviewed journal articles from
scientific and medical publications for use in promotions and educational programs. Scholarly,
peer-reviewed journal articles are important educational tools for pharmaceutical and other life
science companies who communicate with medical professionals.

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 The Content Workflow Company

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FIZ Karlsruhe integrated Reprints Desk’s STM Document Delivery service into the FIZ AutoDoc
system in June 2008. Reprints Desk is a leading provider of content workflow solutions, including
document delivery services in support of research plus reprint services in support of product
promotions and educational outreach. Reprints Desk also launched the group purchasing
software service Reprints GPO in March 2009 to help companies and their global affiliates save
money by aggregating individual scientific and medical article reprint purchases.

About Reprints Desk®

Reprints Desk, Inc. (www.reprintsdesk.com) is a business software and information services company that
simplifies how research-intensive companies and other organizations procure, manage and share journal articles
and other copyright-protected content. The company's content workflow and compliance solutions help customers
effectively use peer-reviewed literature in research, regulatory submissions, and product promotions. A channel
supplier for more than 100 scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishers, Reprints Desk earned the #1
ranking in the 2008 Document Delivery Vendor Scorecard by Outsell, Inc., and currently serves companies in life
sciences, energy, aerospace, industrial products, consumer packaged goods, and information technology.
Reprints Desk is a Derycz Scientific (DYSC.OB) company. For more information about Reprints Desk, contact Ian
Palmer at +1 (707) 658-1931.

About FIZ Karlsruhe®

For more than 30 years, FIZ Karlsruhe (www.fiz-karlsruhe.de) has been developing and providing high-quality
services for information transfer and innovative solutions for knowledge management in research. Its main
activities are the operation of the online service STN International which focuses on science and patent
information and is operated together with Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), and the development of the
KnowEsis product line offering e-Science solutions for web-based scientific work. FIZ Karlsruhe also produces
databases and information services and operates scientific portals, mainly in mathematics, computer science,
energy and crystallography. Primary literature can be ordered through the full-text broker service FIZ AutoDoc.
FIZ Karlsruhe is a member of the Leibniz Association (WGL) which consists of 86 research and service institutions
and six associate members. The Leibniz institutes’ fields of activity include natural sciences, engineering,
environmental sciences, business and social sciences, territorial planning and building research, and the
humanities. The institutes handle strategic and subject-oriented issues of public interest and are therefore jointly
sponsored by the German Federal Government and the German Federal States.

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