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   *SIPX Announces Broad Range of Higher-Education Customers and Partners
for Innovative Digital Copyright Service*

 Palo Alto, CA  (May 21, 2013) – SIPX, Inc. today announced a broad range
of higher-education school customers and publisher partners for the
company’s innovative, end-to-end, digital copyright service.

 “Today is an exciting milestone for SIPX,” said Bob Weinschenk, SIPX Chief
Executive Officer. “In the past nine months, we’ve spun-out from Stanford,
completed our financing, ramped our operations and engaged with a
world-class group of customers and partners eager to meet end user demand
for a modern and efficient digital copyright management system.”

 SIPX provides a new cloud-based technology, created to offer a wide
variety of content options, manage copyrights and deliver digital documents
for the higher-education marketplace.  Developed from Stanford University
research, the SIPX service is fully operational and in use today.

 SIPX blends seamlessly into a school’s Learning Management System (LMS)
and online education environments such as Massive Open Online Courses
(MOOCs).  The SIPX service helps instructors enrich their educational
materials by delivering all types of course materials, including for-pay,
open and royalty-free content.  With the SIPX solution, students can view,
print and download this content, faster, more easily and legally.  SIPX
recognizes and appropriately applies contextual pricing or pre-existing
rights to students, while highlighting how schools and libraries purchase
and maintain subscriptions for their communities.  The SIPX service
analytics also help schools and publishers improve their understanding of
what content students are connecting with and how to leverage that content
most effectively.

 By offering a transparent, efficient, end-to-end system, SIPX benefits all
parties in the ecosystem for higher-education reading materials.

 Schools and consortia that have signed up with SIPX include *California
State University Northridge,* *Golden Gate University*, * Occidental College
*, *Stanford University*, *State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State
College*, *University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)*, *the Statewide
California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC)* and a wide array of SCELC
schools.
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 Rick Burke, Executive Director of SCELC, said “We’ve seen strong interest
from large and small SCELC schools in deploying the SIPX service.  SIPX
drew a lot of attention at our recent SCELC Vendor Day, not only for its
copyright management technologies, but also for its potential to put the
library’s resources front and center for the user.  We look forward to
continuing our partnership with SIPX to bring this innovative approach to
more libraries.”

 In addition to its school customers, SIPX announced partnerships with more
than twenty-five (25) publishing, platform and service partners, many of
which have joined the SIPX Publisher Advisory Board.  Advisory Board
members include *Wolters Kluwer Health’s Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Journals, Nature Publishing Group, Perseus Books Group, Brill, Association
for Computing Machinery, Business Expert Press, University of California
Press, University of North Carolina Press, Pennsylvania State University
Press, Brookings Institution, SPIE, and Stanford University Press*.
Additional publisher partners being announced today are *Rowman and
Littlefield, Rosetta Books, IGI-Global, Hindawi, Casemate/Oxbow, Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), National
Information Standards Organization (NISO), ABC-Clio/Praeger Publishers,
Berghahn Books*, *and Inderscience.  *Platform and service partners include
*HighWire Press, Metapress, GeoScienceWorld *and* Copyright Clearance
Center (CCC)*.

 “As a trade publisher, the Perseus Books Group is always looking to reach
the academic market through innovative, digital services, and SIPX
certainly fits the bill.  We’re thrilled to be partnering with SIPX and
connecting with a broader audience,” said Bill Smith, Director of Domestic
Rights and Digital Partner Development, Perseus Books Group.

 SIPX continues to work with Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to ensure a
seamless integration of the two services.  Tracey Armstrong, President and
Chief Executive Officer of CCC, said “We are happy to support SIPX as the
company brings a broad, integrated, networked solution for copyright
management to the world of post-secondary education.”

 More statements of support can be found
here<http://www.sipx.com/resources-downloads/testimonials>.
 SIPX expects to announce additional customers and partners in the coming
months.

 **
 *About SIPX, Inc.*
 **

Developed at Stanford University, SIPX (pronounced “sip-ex”) is a new
web-based technology created to offer a wide range of content options,
manage copyrights and deliver digital documents for the higher-education
marketplace.  SIPX is the first and only company to provide an end-to-end
service with these capabilities.  The SIPX mission is to create an open and
transparent system where higher-education content consumers and providers
can come together to the benefit of all parties, including libraries,
university management, educators, students, creators, publishers, owners,
aggregators and rights agents.  SIPX launched its pilot implementation at
Stanford in April 2011 and has grown in use ever since.

For more information, visit www.sipx.com or follow SIPX on Twitter (
@SIPXCopyright <https://twitter.com/SIPXCopyright>).

 *Contacts:*
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 Ellen Morton, Communications Manager
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 +1.650.273.7479

 Karen Alter, Chief Operating Officer
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 +1.650.383.8552

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