HighBeam Research Improves Tools, Adds Millions of Documents, Registers More Than 600,000 Members.

CHICAGO -- HighBeam(TM) Research, LLC (www.highbeam.com) announced today several improvements to its research engine that will help individual researchers find, organize and deliver answers faster and more effectively. In addition, it announced that more than 600,000 individual researchers have registered for its Basic Membership since the January 26, 2004, launch of its research engine.

HighBeam Research has improved its searching functionality and has added millions of documents to its eLibrary archive.

While searching of the HighBeam Research eLibrary archive, members can now specify a list of multiple publications to search at once and they may also exclude a list of publications from their search. Members can apply the same functionality to their e-mail alerts, as well.

In addition to the improvements to research tools, HighBeam Research added more than 4 million documents to its eLibrary archive, which now provides access to a vast collection of 32 million articles and images from more than 2,800 newswires and newspapers; leading business, consumer and industry magazines and journals; transcripts; images; and reference sources. Since a year ago (when it offered the product separately as eLibrary.com), HighBeam Research has doubled the list of publications and added more than 18 million documents to the eLibrary archive.

Examples of the publications recently added to HighBeam Research include: