EBSCO Corporate Services announces streamlined e-procurement procedures for its customers who use SAP^® Enterprise Buyer Professional, which now supports an open catalog interface technology called RoundTrip™.

With RoundTrip, customers are routed directly to the EBSCO Corporate Services Web site. After products are selected for purchase, RoundTrip sends the required item details back to the shopping cart.

The shopping cart items are directly routed through the buyer's requisition and approval process before the order is converted to a purchase order and sent to the EBSCO Corporate Service Center^® for processing.

"The implementation of RoundTrip enables EBSCO to process orders smoothly while interacting with SAP, which is a requirement of many of our most important customers," says John Fitts, vice president and general manager of EBSCO's Information Systems and Services department. "Our e-commerce capabilities and our customer base for these new functionalities are expanding at a considerable rate and we look forward to servicing the many customers who will be taking advantage of this new feature."

EBSCO Subscription Services, EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Book Services form the EBSCO Information Services group. EBSCO is a worldwide leader in providing information access and management solutions through print and electronic journal subscription services, research database development and production, online access to more than 100 databases and thousands of e-journals, and e-commerce book procurement. EBSCO has specialized products and services for academic, medical, government, public and school libraries as well as for corporations and other organizations. EBSCO maintains a comprehensive database of more than 282,000 serial titles and upholds active relationships with more than 60,000 publishers worldwide. 2004 marks EBSCO's 60th year of serving the library and business communities. For more information, visit www.ebsco.com.

Contact: Rebecca C. Walden Corporate Communications Office: (205) 980-6794 Cell: (205) 281-7111 rwalden@ebsco.com

Release Date: Feb. 25, 2004