Ingenta and EBSCO launch new subscription activation initiative
Library activation of e-journal access to become substantially easier
Ingenta plc., the global market leader in the online publication, distribution and readership of academic and professional research, today announced the first stage in a major new initiative to simplify the process whereby libraries configure online access to their e-journals.
Launched jointly with EBSCO, the new process will significantly reduce the workload for libraries and administrators. Subscription agents Kinokuniya and Harrosowitz are also using Ingenta’s new system which has already activated over 75,000 subscriptions. Ingenta intends to roll out the service to other participating subscription agents over time.
Previously, libraries using www.ingenta.com to access their subscribed e-journals had to review the list of subscribed journals available at Ingenta and confirm their subscriptions to these titles one-by-one; this data was then validated against subscription files from the publisher. The new process removes this onerous task faced by librarians and administrators. In future, libraries will have seamless and pre-configured access via Ingenta to all their subscribed e-journals, purchased through a subscription agent. 98% of the 260 publishers represented by Ingenta have agreed to follow this new process and trust the data supplied by their agents.
Speaking of the new service, which is unique to Ingenta, Amel Abourachid, Library Business Manager said: “We recently undertook a survey of a selection of our 16,000 registered institutions and 97% of the respondents said that they took out their subscriptions via a subscription agent. With this new facility we are simplifying the process and responding to our library customers’ needs.”
Bethany Smith, EBSCO’s e-Journals Customer Service Supervisor, agreed: “The bulk activation service saves the customers who order through EBSCO the trouble of going to yet another website and managing all the information that journal activation requires. It is the epitome of one-stop shopping for which librarians are clamouring.”
For more information, libraries should contact Ingenta’s customer services team at: help@ingenta.com.
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For more information and photography, please contact:
Amanda Procter
Ingenta plc
Tel: 01865 799022
Mobile: 07931 937458
Email: amanda.procter@ingenta.com
About Ingenta
www.ingenta.com
Ingenta is the global market leader in the management and distribution of published scientific, professional and academic research via the Internet, and develops and maintains specialist websites for publishers, self-publishing societies and libraries.
For publishers of scientific, professional and academic periodicals, journals and reference works, Ingenta provides a suite of publisher services including data conversion, secure online hosting, access control and distribution services. For libraries and information professionals, Ingenta offers collection management and comprehensive document delivery options. Ingenta’s collection of research content – 13 million articles from more than 6,100 online publications and 27,000 fax and Ariel delivered publications – is accessed by millions of researchers and librarians a month via ingenta.com and other websites.
In October 2000, 2001 and 2002, InfoWorld named Ingenta one of the world’s top 100 e-business companies. In December 2002 and 2003 Econtent magazine featured Ingenta in its 100 list of companies that matter most in the digital content industry. Ingenta is listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
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