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2006 Featured Articles

• Thursday, December 21, 2006
  (The Guardian)
  The new 100 most useful sites
• Monday, September 18, 2006
  (Information Today)
  Traditional Information Industry Opens Premium Content to Google
• Wednesday, September 6, 2006
  (Mercury News)
  Google broadens news archive
• Tuesday, September 5, 2006
  (International Herald Tribune (AP))
  Google expands online news index to include older news articles
• Monday, July 24, 2006
  (Information Today)
  HighBeam Renames and Redesigns Its Free Encyclopedia
• Friday, July 21, 2006
  (eContent)
  HighBeam Research Renames Online Encyclopedia
• Thursday, April 6, 2006
  (EContent)
  Podcast: Patrick Spain on Content Flexibility
• Wednesday, March 15, 2006
  (EContent)
  Show Me the Value: At SIIA, the Debate over Free vs. Fee Content Continues
• Monday, February 6, 2006
  (Information Today)
  HighBeam Introduces Free Full-Text Journal Articles
• Tuesday, January 31, 2006
  (WebSearchGuide Internet News)
  Highbeam Research Adds Enticements
• Tuesday, January 31, 2006
  (ClickZ News Blog)
  HighBeam Launches New Contextual Ad Program
• Tuesday, January 31, 2006
  (Peter Scott's Library Blog)
  HighBeam Research expands premium content, makes 1.5 million articles free
• Tuesday, January 31, 2006
  (EContent)
  HighBeam Research Adds Content, Makes More Articles Free
• Tuesday, January 31, 2006
  (ADOTAS)
  HighBeam Vaults into Cost-Per-Click
• Monday, January 30, 2006
  (Shore News Commentary)
  HighBeam Expands both Free and Premium Content Offerings to Grow Base of Quality Content
• Thursday, January 19, 2006
  (EContent)
  Name With The Face: LaMont Clements, Customer Service Manager, HighBeam Research

2005 Featured Articles

• Monday, November 28, 2005
  (Crain's Chicago Business)
  HighBeam sells itself with more free content
• Tuesday, November 1, 2005
  (Illinois VC News)
  Q&A: HighBeam Research Founder, CEO and Chairman Patrick Spain on Raising VC
• Thursday, October 13, 2005
  (Austin Business Journal)
  Former Hoover's exec becomes CTO of Chicago company
• Tuesday, April 19, 2005
  (Internet News)
  HighBeam Research Gets Blogging
• Monday, April 18, 2005
  (Information Today)
  HighBeam Offers New Blogging Tools
• Sunday, April 17, 2005
  (Minced Media (blog))
  The Shoe's on the Other Foot
• Friday, April 15, 2005
  (Infomaniac (blog) )
  Behind the News
• Friday, April 15, 2005
  (thesearchenginemarketingweblog)
  HighBeam Adds Blogging Tool
• Friday, April 15, 2005
  (The Blog Herald)
  HighBeam Research Announces Suite of Blog related tools
• Friday, April 15, 2005
  (EContent)
  HighBeam Research Announces Suite of Tools for Bloggers
• Thursday, April 14, 2005
  (Really Simple Sidi (blog) )
  Highbeam's new tool: Blog Enhancer
• Thursday, April 14, 2005
  (SearchEngineWatch (blog) )
  HighBeam Research Launches New Tool for Blogging Community
• Thursday, April 14, 2005
  (Unmediated)
  Highbeam Launches Suite of Blog Tools
• Thursday, April 14, 2005
  (Allied)
  For Immediate Bloglease
• Thursday, April 14, 2005
  (Web Search Guide)
  HighBeam Research for Bloggers
• Wednesday, March 30, 2005
  (Chicago Sun-Times)
  HighBeam helps employees do their own research
• Tuesday, March 1, 2005
  (Fast Company)
  Nexis for the Rest of Us
• Wednesday, February 2, 2005
  (Churbuck.com)
  Will HighBeam nuke Factiva?

2004 Featured Articles

• Wednesday, December 8, 2004
  (Web Working)
  HighBeam Names "Chief Blogging Officer"
• Tuesday, December 7, 2004
  (The WHIR Article Central)
  Highbeam Launches Blogging Resource
• Monday, December 6, 2004
  (BlogKits)
  Chief Blogging Officer? Why Not?
• Thursday, December 2, 2004
  (Joho the Blog)
  Chief Raging Officer
• Wednesday, December 1, 2004
  (WebProNews)
  HighBeam Research's New Blogging Resource
• Monday, November 29, 2004
  (allied)
  Onward Chris and Soldiers...
• Monday, November 29, 2004
  (ComputerWorld)
  Powell Tapped as CTO at HighBeam
• Monday, November 22, 2004
  (Chicago Sun-Times)
  Appointments
• Tuesday, October 26, 2004
  (MasterMind Explorer)
  The Individual Is The News Authority
• Tuesday, October 19, 2004
  (EContent)
  HighBeam Research Adds Advertising Revenue
• Tuesday, October 19, 2004
  (Websearchguide Internet News)
  HighBeam adds advertising
• Friday, October 8, 2004
  (paidContent.org)
  The Secret Sauce (and other blog entries by Patrick Spain)
• Friday, October 1, 2004
  (Library Journal)
  HighBeam Adds Archive Access
• Monday, September 6, 2004
  (Library Journal)
  HighBeam Research Archive Available Through LookSmart
• Wednesday, September 1, 2004
  (Outsell Now)
  HighBeam and LookSmart partner
• Sunday, August 1, 2004
  (AirTran Arrivals)
  When it pays to pay for research
• Wednesday, July 14, 2004
  (Internet.com)
  HighBeam Stocks Virtual Library
• Friday, July 9, 2004
  (EContent)
  HighBeam Improves Tools, Adds Millions Of Documents
• Tuesday, April 6, 2004
  (Industry Week)
  Viewpoint -- Personal Computing: When It Pays To Pay For Research
• Friday, February 20, 2004
  (Internet News)
  Q&A: Patrick Spain, Founder HighBeam
• Thursday, February 5, 2004
  (eprairie.com)
  Ex-Hoovers CEO Turning Searching Into Researching in Chicago
• Friday, January 30, 2004
  (Philadelpha Business Journal)
  Ill. firm checks out updated eLibrary
• Wednesday, January 28, 2004
  (URLwire.com)
  Alacritude, eLibrary Relaunch This Week as HighBeam.com
• Tuesday, January 27, 2004
  (EContent Magazine)
  HighBeam Research: Going Beyond Googleing
• Tuesday, January 27, 2004
  (EContent Magazine )
  Alacritude, Renamed HighBeam Research, Unveils Service Targeting Individual Online Researchers
• Monday, January 26, 2004
  (KRLD Radio)
  Noon Business NewsHour Interview with DAVID JOHNSON
• Monday, January 26, 2004
  (Information Today)
  Alacritude Turns a HighBeam on Research
• Monday, January 26, 2004
  (paidContent.org)
  Patrick Spain's Walking the HighBeam
• Monday, January 26, 2004
  ((CBS Marketwatch — subscription to CBS Marketwatch required) )
  HighBeam focuses in on research
• Saturday, January 24, 2004
  (WashingtonPost.com)
  HighBeam Switches On

2003 Featured Articles

• Friday, December 12, 2003
  (EContent Magazine)
  Alacritude Adds Articles To eLibrary, Announces Agreement With Thomson Gale
• Friday, November 7, 2003
  (EContent Magazine)
  Alacritude's eLibrary Integrates Into Microsoft Office 2003
• Tuesday, November 4, 2003
  (EContent Magazine )
  FAST Powers Search on Alacritude's Elibrary and Encyclopedia.com
• Wednesday, July 30, 2003
  (CBS MarketWatch)
  All the content in the world ... isn't enough (audio)
• Monday, July 14, 2003
  (Philadelphia Business Journal)
  Alacritude brings in $1.2M in venture money
• Tuesday, July 8, 2003
  (EContent Magazine)
  Alacritude Closes Series A Financing With Additional $1.2 Million
• Wednesday, July 2, 2003
  (paidContent.org)
  Alacritude Raises Additional $1.2 Million
• Tuesday, July 1, 2003
  (Information Today)
  New Information Marketplace
• Thursday, May 1, 2003
  (Online Magazine)
  Microsoft Recognizes Research
• Friday, January 24, 2003
  (Philadelphia Business Journal)
  New Net outfit gets $3M Alacritude, with 2 online research sites, receives venture capital

2002 Featured Articles

• Monday, December 30, 2002
  (Austin Business Journal)
  Former Hoover's CEO's company gets $3.1M
• Monday, October 28, 2002
  (Information Today)
  eLibrary Articles Now Included in Inktomi Search Results
• Sunday, September 1, 2002
  (Smart Computing)
  Browsers Welcome, Knowledge Seekers Adored Find the Answers at Encyclopedia.com
• Thursday, August 15, 2002
  (eFinance Insider)
  INTERVIEW: Patrick Spain, co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Hoover's; currently Chairman and CEO, Alacritude, LLC