<span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Greetings,  </span>
<br>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">I would like to
draw your attention to today's press release: </span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"><b>HARRASSOWITZ
Partners with Purchase to Open Initiative to Advance Open Access for Academic
Books</b></span>
<br>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"><i>Wiesbaden,
Germany – March 26, 2026. </i></span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">HARRASSOWITZ,
leading supplier of scholarly content published throughout Europe, is pleased
to announce its partnership with the Purchase to Open (P2O) initiative,
continuing its support of open access content for academic monographs.</span>
<br>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Purchase to Open
is a collaborative funding model that brings together libraries, publishers,
and booksellers to make high-quality scholarly books openly accessible.
By combining established acquisition workflows with a community-based pledging
scheme, P2O allows libraries to support the open access publication of
individual titles in a transparent and efficient way.</span>
<br>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Under the P2O
model, publishers submit upcoming publications with a defined funding target.
Libraries can then pledge their support via their preferred bookseller.
If enough institutions participate and the funding threshold is reached,
the title is published open access. If the threshold is not met, participating
libraries still receive perpetual access to the e-book through a standard
campus license.</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Seamless Integration
into Library Workflows:</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">P2O titles are
now included in <i>Fokus</i>, the HARRASSOWITZ system for acquisition and
management of scholarly resources. Users can make their pledges directly
at the selection / ordering level by using existing workflows and templates.
In addition, where titles match subject profiles, HARRASSOWITZ will send
New Title Announcements which link back to the records in <i>Fokus</i>.</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">HARRASSOWITZ is
pleased to continue its support of moving content to open access and building
tools to assist libraries with all open access models. </span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">For questions
regarding Purchase to Open or any of our open access services, please contact
your Regional Sales Manager or service@harrassowitz.de  .</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"><b>About HARRASSOWITZ</b></span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Established in
1872, HARRASSOWITZ has been serving libraries around the world for more
than 150 years. Customers value HARRASSOWITZ for the quality and accuracy
of its services and for its industry-leading and innovative solutions.
HARRASSOWITZ specializes in providing a comprehensive range of high-quality
collection support services to academic and research libraries for e-content,
periodicals, continuations, books, and music scores.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">For more information,
see </span><a href=https://www.harrassowitz.de/><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:sans-serif">https://www.harrassowitz.de</span></a><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">
.</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif"><b>About Purchase-to-Open
(P2O)</b></span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Purchase to Open
is a collaborative, cross-publisher initiative operated by Transform to
Open GmbH that enables the open access publication of scholarly books through
collective library funding and integration into existing acquisition workflows.
P2O promotes high-quality content from the humanities and social sciences
in a particularly resource-efficient manner.</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">For more information,
see </span><a href="https://purchase-to-open.com/"><span style=" font-size:10pt;color:blue;font-family:sans-serif">https://purchase-to-open.com</span></a><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">
.</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Best regards</span>
<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">Edith Klee</span>

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Klee</b></span>
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GmbH & Co. KG</b></span>
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Buchhandlung & Zeitschriftenagentur</span>
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Subscription Agents</span>
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<br><span style=" font-size:10pt;font-family:sans-serif">65205 Wiesbaden,
Germany</span>
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