Oxford University Press Renews and Expands Its Relationship with ScholarOne®

Charlottesville, Virginia, February 1, 2006

ScholarOne® is pleased to announce that Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press (OUP), has selected Manuscript Central™ for its enterprise-wide online peer review. The Press currently has 41 journals using Manuscript Central™, and that number will grow to 90 in the coming months.

"We're delighted to be extending our relationship with ScholarOne to use Manuscript Central," commented Pam Sutherland, IT Director, Oxford Journals.

She continued, "Manuscript Central provides us with a flexible and user-friendly system that enables authors to submit and track their research, and also speeds up and simplifies the entire process from submission to online publication."

Bill Carden, ScholarOne president and CEO, said "We started working with Oxford Journals in 2001 with Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation. OUP has been with ScholarOne during the most formative stages of our company and, with a new multiyear contract, we now look forward to serving more than 90 of their journals."

More details about Manuscript Central are available at: www.scholarone.com/products_manuscriptcentral_aboutMC.shtml

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, increasing their profile among authors, decreasing time-to-market for critical scientific data, and 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 Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP), (www.oup.co.uk) a department of the University of Oxford, is the world's largest and most international university press. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals. Read more about OUP >>

Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 180 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies.