HighBeam (TM) Research Incorporated was founded in 2002 as Alacritude LLC. The firm was launched with its acquisition of Tucows Incorporated's eLibrary subscription-based research service and Encyclopedia.com online information resource. Alacritude acquired the Researchville.com metasearch domain in 2002. A year later, the firm developed a technology platform that integrated the eLibrary, Encyclopedia.com, and Researchville.com services. The platform streamlined access to the eLibrary archive, which contained 28 million articles. eLibrary content is pulled from 2,600 publishers. Alacritude changed its name to HighBeam Research Incorporated in 2004. It launched the HighBeam Research Engine in the same year. The web-based HighBeam Research Engine resource collects 35 million articles from 3,000 newspaper, magazine, journal, transcript, and book publishers. The HighBeam Research BlogEnhancer tool, introduced in 2005, allows blog publishers to incorporate HighBeam Research content on their blogs. HighBeam RSS allows users to monitor targeted news stories. The HighBeam Reference resource encompasses encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, almanacs, and other reference works. HighBeam Research subscribers can save and organize articles. Content can be exported to Microsoft (R) Word (R) and Microsoft PowerPoint (R). Articles also can be e-mailed. HighBeam Research earns revenue from subscriptions and advertising. The firm was founded by Patrick Spain. The company has won recognition from 'EContent,' The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), and 'Fast Company.'