Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico - June 23, 2004 - In celebration of the their purchase of Web of Science^® and Current Contents Connect^®, the Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) and Thomson held a day-long event, which featured inspiring speeches and informative presentations. The Universidad de Guadalajara purchased all three Thomson ISI databases that comprise Web of Science-Science Citation Index Expanded™, Social Sciences Citation Index^®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index^®-back to 1996. In addition, the university will provide their information and research communities with all seven editions of Current Contents Connect. They are:

• Agriculture, Biology, & Environmental Sciences
• Arts & Humanities
• Clinical Medicine
• Engineering, Computing, & Technology
• Life Sciences
• Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
• Social & Behavioral Sciences.

Web of Science and Current Contents Connect are key components of ISI Web of Knowledge^SM, which facilitates discovery by offering seamless navigation to the highest-quality, multidisciplinary journal literature, patent data, Web content, evaluation tools, and bibliographic management products. Web of Science indexes approximately 8,700 of the world's most influential scholarly journals, offering complete bibliographic data, searchable author abstracts, and cited references from content back to 1945. Current Contents Connect is the companion current awareness resource, providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals, 2,000 books, and a premium collection of evaluated scholarly Web sites.

While other prominent institutions in Mexico where still renewing subscriptions to these resources in traditional formats, the Universidad de Guadalajara was among the first universities in Mexico to purchase Web-based versions of these renowned, multidisciplinary information solutions.

The University of Guadalajara is a public, decentralized body of the Mexican State of Jalisco Government, whose objective is to form and update the technical, bachelors, professional technicians, professionals, graduates and other human resources required for socioeconomic development; to organize, perform, foster and divulge all scientific, humanistic and technological research; to rescue, preserve, increase and divulge all culture, science and technology.

The Universidad de Guadalajara was established in 1792, with one building of the College of Saint Thomas. In 1826, the university was closed and reopened as the Institute of Sciences of the State of Jalisco, introducing such subjects as Grammar, Mathematics, Architecture, Forensic Medicine, and Constitutional Law, among others. In 1917, the Universidad de Guadalajara was reborn from a series of dispersed institutions into a State University. Today, University of Guadalajara is among the largest and most respected institutions of higher learning in Mexico, arguably in all of Latin America.