Informa PLC Renews and Expands Its Relationship with ScholarOne®

Charlottesville, Virginia, January 9, 2006

ScholarOne is pleased to announce that Taylor & Francis, leading international academic publisher, has increased its current contract with ScholarOne to license Manuscript Central™ for the online peer-review management of 300 journals worldwide. Taylor & Francis is well known as a global information provider, annually publishing over 1000 journals for customers working as researchers, students, academics, and increasingly professionals. Manuscript Central will be tightly integrated with Taylor & Francis' current workflow, including seamless connection with its in-house electronic systems. The result will be a completely electronic workflow, from an author's submission of a paper through to publication. Such a workflow will greatly increase the efficiency of existing business processes.

"Our use of Manuscript Central has already resulted in an increase in article submissions, due to simplifying this process for our authors, and a reduction in manuscript submission to publication times. Expansion of our contract with ScholarOne will mean we are able to bring the benefits of online management to an ever growing number of journals," commented David Green, group journals publishing director for Taylor & Francis Group plc.

"We are delighted to have the opportunity to work with Taylor & Francis and to have them expand their presence in our rapidly growing user community," said Bill Carden, ScholarOne president and CEO.

About ScholarOne

ScholarOne, Inc. (www.scholarone.com) provides comprehensive workflow management systems for scholarly journals, books, and conferences. Its Web-based applications enable publishers to manage the submission, peer-review, production, and publication processes more efficiently by increasing their profile among authors, by decreasing time-to-market for critical scientific data, and by lowering infrastructure costs. The Manuscript Central user base has grown to 2.6 million registered users worldwide.

The clients of ScholarOne include prestigious nonprofit societies, university presses, government agencies, and the world's leading commercial publishers. The company employs 75 people at its Charlottesville, Virginia, headquarters and in Washington, DC; Boston; London; and Bielefeld, Germany.

About Taylor & Francis

Building on two centuries' experience, Taylor & Francis (www.taylorandfrancisgroup.com) has grown rapidly over the last two decades to become a leading international academic publisher. With offices in London, Brighton, Basingstoke, and Abingdon in the UK, New York and Philadelphia in the USA and Singapore and Melbourne in the Pacific Rim, the Taylor & Francis Group publishes more than 1000 journals and around 1,800 new books each year, with a backlist in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.

Taylor & Francis is a provider of quality information and knowledge that enable customers to perform their jobs efficiently, to continue their education, and to help contribute to the advancement of their chosen markets.

Taylor & Francis Group plc has merged with Informa Group plc to form T&F Informa plc (www.tfinforma.com), a new international force in the provision of specialist information through publishing and events businesses.