CAMBRIDGE—February 26, 2001—Jenzabar, Inc., a leading provider of integrated enterprise software, Internet infrastructure, and services to higher education institutions, today announced it will offer access to LexisNexis information solutions to students, faculty, and librarians at colleges and universities. Beginning in April, Jenzabar schools that subscribe to LexisNexis will be able to access a portfolio of LexisNexis solutions, including Academic Universe, Statistical Universe, Congressional Universe, State Capital Universe, and History Universe. Through the Jenzabar front-end web interface, users will enjoy web-based access to the most complete collection of publications available, covering news, financial, statistical, American history, medical, and legal information.

"In partnering with LexisNexis, Jenzabar has again demonstrated its commitment towards improving the academic lives of both students and faculty," said Ling Chai, CEO of Jenzabar, Inc. "By integrating access to LexisNexis products into Jenzabar’s infrastructure, our mutual customers now can enjoy more convenient access to the leading information products available in the industry."

"We are pleased to offer students, faculty, and librarians another gateway to the leading family of information products through the leading web interface in the academic world," said Paul Kesaris, LexisNexis, vice president and editor-in-chief, CFM. "Now, those students, faculty and librarians associated with academic institutions with a LexisNexis account can log in right from Jenzabar."

For the convenience of both the school and the user, LexisNexis products will be integrated into the Jenzabar infrastructure. Together, Jenzabar and LexisNexis will create a process that quickly and accurately grants Jenzabar users with LexisNexis accounts access to appropriate services. From the individual school Intranet site, each Jenzabar user will be able to access LexisNexis products through a simple, transparent authentication process.

About Jenzabar, Inc.

By improving the exchange of information through powerful business intelligence applications and services, Jenzabar's Internet enterprise software, e-learning solutions, and services deliver a competitive edge to higher education institutions. Dedicated to supporting and enhancing the educational community, Jenzabar's business units serve 700 higher education institutions worldwide, including students, professors, and administrators from private liberal arts, medical, law, state, and community colleges. Institutions employing Jenzabar solutions include The Claremont Colleges, Colby College, Daytona Beach Community College, William Mitchell College of Law, Governors State University, Bluffton College, Florida Southern College, Bay de Noc Community College, Berry College, and Harvard Medical School.

Jenzabar's offerings include Web-based enterprise software with student, institutional advancement, human resources, and financial applications; e-learning solutions; and a higher education enterprise information portal (EIP). Founded in 1998, Jenzabar is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and currently employs more than 300 people in regional offices across the United States.

About LexisNexis Congressional Information Service
A member of the LexisNexis Corporate and Federal Markets organization, Congressional Information Service (www.cispubs.com) of Bethesda, Maryland, has served the needs of the academic and library market for 30 years. Through its CIS and University Publications of America (UPA) imprints, CIS publishes archival research collections of primary source material in print, microform, and CD-ROM formats.

The LexisNexis Group unites strong brands, pioneering technologies and premium information for customers in the legal, corporate, government and education markets. Its products are available via the Web, dial-up online, CD-ROM and books. A trusted source, the company offers targeted information solutions that can be integrated into its customers’ business processes and systems. Combining searchable access to over 2.8three billion documents from thousands of sources with leading edge systems and tools for managing this content, LexisNexis delivers a high quality resource with which to build legal research and knowledge-management solutions for the entire enterprise.

LexisNexis Group operating units also include Martindale-Hubbell, Butterworths Tolley in the UK, Editions du Juris-Classeur in France and other legal publishing businesses in Europe, North and South America, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. LexisNexis Group is a division of the global publisher and information provider, Reed Elsevier Inc. For more information, please visit www.LexisNexis.com, www.cispubs.com, or call CIS at 1-800-638-8380.